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12 Best Foreign Celebrity Ads
Celebrities don’t just make embarrassing ads in America when they want a quick payday. Some of the most shameless and surreal commercials come from overseas. Madonna selling sake? A naked Harrison Ford hawking a Japanese beer? And Snoop Dogg performing as a German folk singer? Watch the best of the worst.
Snoop Dogg Singing German…Ja Shizzle?
Why is Snoop Dogg coming out of a refrigerator dressed like German folk singer Roy Black? We don’t understand this 2008 German ad for VybeMobile, but it sure is catchy.
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Material Girl Promotes Consumerism
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You're surprised Jolie and Pitt would stoop to do a mere commercial? The couple that sold their baby pictures to the highest bidder? Twice?
slobone, Jolie and Pitt then gave the money they made on the pictures to charity. I applaud them for that.
Oh, Daily Beast. How you amuse me. But you missed a few!
Nicolas Cage runs afoul of aliens while singing along to Beethoven's Fifth in his pick-up: http://tinyurl.com/anunmx
And this Japanese commercial, which features no celebs but is truly awesome: http://tinyurl.com/cxccoq
Forgot one myself...a vastly superior depiction of Orson Welles boozed up and flubbing his lines: http://tinyurl.com/2fl5xp
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there are many better Japanese commercials starring American celebrities...The Megan Ryan one being one of my personal favorites.
http://thepopcorntrick.blogspot.com/2008/10/top-us-celebrities-as-seen- in-japanese.html
There was a great one in the mid-90s of Ringo Starr promoting apples because ringo means apple in Japanese.
You have missed one of the finest foreign celeb commercials of all time: Charles Bronson for Mandom cologne (http://tinyurl.com/mandom).
He is truly the manliest of manly men...
Brad Pitt is just flat funny.
Thank you.
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