japanese commercials

1-900-HOTDOG Megajam: Japanese Commercials, American Celebrities

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Teamworking Day! It’s Teamworking Day! All the Hot Dogs wrote up our favorite Japanese Ads starring U.S. celebrities, a topic I know a little something about. Our mandate: write a paragraph about short TV spots. Our execution: mini-essays, because no word count on this topic can compress comprehensively. If I hadn’t already covered some spots … Read more

Cracked Topic: Japanese Commercials

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This was an article about American celebrities doing commercials in Japan. I positioned it as a fun intersection of genius and crazy, but most commercials are bizarre without the intelligibility of full context. I’m pretty glad Cracked sunset this one, and I thought for years about doing a follow-up where American ads look equally bonkers … Read more