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Posted on 03/30/2009 7:01:42 AM PDT by ETL
Discovery Channel thinks we’ve had our fill of shows about the fancy fellows who make commercials at high-powered advertising agencies.
The network is getting ready to launch a series about two infomercial stars who might not even be allowed into the hallways on AMC’s award-winning “Mad Men,” set on Madison Avenue during the 1960s, or TNT’s “Trust Me,” built around a present-day Chicago ad shop.
“Pitchmen,” a 13-part original series premiering April 15 on Discovery, may be about infomercials—a form of advertising much of the media world looks down upon—but at least it has the virtue of being a real story about real people.
The series focuses on Billy Mays and Anthony “Sully” Sullivan, whose names are linked to real products you can’t live without. Or at least products you don’t think you can live without at 3 a.m., when the persuasive infomercials they concoct air.
According to Discovery, Mr. Mays and Mr. Sullivan have sold millions of cleaners, sweepers, kitchen gadgets and other miracle products. “Pitchmen” will look at both the people who invent these clever creations and the guys who pitch them. Episodes follow the process from the boardroom product pitch to on-the-street reaction to filming the infomercial.
The series is produced by Original Productions, with Thom Beers, Philip D. Segal, Billy Mays, Anthony Sullivan and Chris Wilson as executive producers. Chris Rantamaki is executive producer for Discovery.
HI!..BIL-LY MAYS, THE
"OXI-MORON", HERE!!!
And HyAnthony Sullivan isn’t any better.
How to Do a Shamwow Commercial
Let's let Barry try..
Hi, it's Barry with ShamNow! You'll be saying Sham every time I sign a bill! It's like a chamois! It's like a towel! It's like a sponge. A regular bill doesn't get all your money - this works on paper money or pocket change. This is for the House, the Senate, the boat, the RV! ShamNow holds twenty times its weight in money. Look at this! It just does the work! Why do you want to work twice as hard? It doesn't drip, doesn't make a mess. You wring it out, launder it in the Senate. It is made in Germany, you know the Germans always make good stuff. You can cut it in half, use one as a bath mat, drain your dishes with the other one, use one as a towel. Olympic divers, they use it as a towel (no, you're a towel)
. Look at that! Completely broke! Put a business in it, roll it up, it sucks all the profit. Here's some oil, coal, natural gas and pet stains. Not only is the damage gonna be on top - there's your carbon. That is going to smell! See that? The most absorbing We're gonna do this in real time! Look at this! Put it on the profit, turn it over! Without even putting any pressure, fifty percent of the profit right there. You follow me, camera guy? The other fifty percent, the money starts to come up. No other towel's gonna do that! It acts like a vacuum! And look at this - virtually broke on the bottom! See what I'm telling ya? ShamNow! You'll be saying Sham every time!
WOW! What a SHAM!...........................
YEah, where the heck is Vince in this? Reminds me totally of my first college roomate.
Oh, and yes, I think he would do a commercial like that.
I always got the feeling this guy was a bit ‘volatile’. My gut was proven right. ;)
When done correctly, infomercials are the best advertising a company can use, but the product has to be right.
If its a good product that people are not familiar with at all, then an infomercial that simply showcases the product is great.
Most infomercials are way too long. The customer is either sold or not interested at 5 minutes. The exception is the not so useful, but neat product, where the house wife needs to get 10 or 11 pointless justifications to push her to dial the phone.
In short, 99% of infomercials give the rest a bad name.
Sure, Billy’s annoying.....but some of the products actually work. Besides, unlike Vince, he’s not getting into scraps with prostitutes.....not that we’ve heard of, anyway.
He's got a new gig!......................
Keeping America skinny, one slap at a time!.....................
After his arrest, I think the most (in)famous line from that commercial will be, “You’re gonna love my nuts.”
Recent mugshot of Vince the ShamWow Guy.
The Sham Wow guy got busted last weekend. Too funny.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2009/0327092sham1.html
ShamWow Guy In Slap, Chop Bust TV pitchman battered hooker in South Beach hotel room brawl
MARCH 27--Meet Vince Shlomi. He's probably better known to you as the ShamWow Guy, the ubiquitous television pitchman who has been phenomenally successful peddling absorbent towels and food choppers. Shlomi, 44, was arrested last month on a felony battery charge following a violent confrontation with a prostitute in his South Beach hotel room. According to an arrest affidavit, Shlomi met Sasha Harris, 26, at a Miami Beach nightclub on February 7 and subsequently retired with her to his $750 room at the lavish Setai hotel.
Shlomi told cops he paid Harris about $1000 in cash after she "propositioned him for straight sex." Shlomi said that when he kissed Harris, she suddenly "bit his tongue and would not let go." Shlomi then punched Harris several times until she released his tongue. The affidavit, a copy of which you'll find here, notes that during the 4 AM fight Harris sustained facial fractures and lacerations all over her face (she is pictured here in mug shots snapped following busts in 2008 and 2005). After freeing his tongue, a bleeding Shlomi ran to the Setai lobby, where security summoned cops. Harris refused to cooperate with officers, who recovered $930 from her purse. "Both parties had a strong odor of an alcoholic beverage emitting from their persons," police reported.
In a brief telephone interview, Harris declined to answer TSG questions about her run-in with Shlomi, though she did say she is considering a lawsuit against the pitchman. Asked if she worked as a hooker, Harris declined comment. As seen in the [...] mug shot, Shlomi was also injured during the fracas and, court records show, was treated at Mount Sinai Medical Center. While Shlomi and Harris were both arrested for felony aggravated battery, prosecutors this month declined to file formal charges against the combatants.
Police records list Shlomi's occupation as "Marketing," but make no mention of his affiliation with the ShamWow or the Slap Chop, both of which sell for $19.95 (plus shipping and handling).
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2009/0327092sham1.html
You beat me to it! I’ll never forgive you for that! Never!!
:)
Clearly they are much smarter than I, but why do the info-people hire hucksters with high, annoying voices or faces like every known picture of Dishonest John? Wouldn’t a John Facenda or Tommy Sands type be a better choice?
But wait!.................call right now................
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