The Most Obnoxious TV Pitchman

[quadraphonic]

I'm sorry, but the more I think of it, the more I just think "Camera Guy, are ya following me?" should be included on every commercial from here and forever. ;D

 

[Markxxx]

The Sham-Wow guy is Vince Offer

The FreeCreditReport.Com guy is Eric Violette

www.ericviolette.com

He is French Canadian, and he sings in real life but not on the commericals. He only lip synchs because his English isn't good enough.

I can't stand all the infomericals for Obama coins, especiall Montel Williams hawking them

Will Eric Violette have a tv series like the dancing stone aged man did.
this guy is funny.

Since he is a singer and he doesn't can't speak English well enough to do a commercial probably not gonna do an American Show. Maybe in France or Montreal

 

[FreddyE1977]

Quebecers have proven they can become exceedingly fluent in English in a short period of time, when they have a
compelling reason to do so. When Mario Lemieux was drafted by the Pittsburgh Penguins, he showed
up not speaking a word of English. By his second season, he was giving tons of interviews, and today
is more fluent in English than many of us who grew up speaking it.

Celine Dion was another one who spoke virtually no English until she was "discovered" and then
had a substantial business reason for doing so. It sounds like Mr. Violette may find it a worthwhile
investment of his time.

 

[crainbebo]

My vote is for BILLY MAYS HERE FOR (insert product)!!!!!!!!! LOL

Puke on this, Billy
"It Has The Strength to pull this fully-loaded 80,000 lb trailer!!!"

The best pitchman is Vince Offer (Shamwow!) He is not screaming at all. He's just showing you what Shamwow does. Even though he wears that headset, he's still a good pitchman.

-crainbebo

 

[ihEARDtHAT]

ShamWow Vince is branching out now with the Slap Chop "food processor."
He's going to eventually top Billy Mays for good, just you wait and seeeeeee!

And one of his statements is,"you're gonna love my nuts"!!!!

 

[quadraphonic]

ShamWow Vince is branching out now with the Slap Chop "food processor."
He's going to eventually top Billy Mays for good, just you wait and seeeeeee!

And one of his statements is,"you're gonna love my nuts"!!!!

I will have to pay closer attention to the words next time I see it.
I am usually mesmerized by the twitching and sleight-of-hand moves and winking that going on the first couple times I see a Vince spot.

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

My vote goes to Billy Mays. I have to laugh at his latest commercial which is a device that allows gardeners to plant flowers and scrubs easier than using a shovel or pick by tilling the soil.
If you notice on the commercial the ground has already been rotor-tilled so that a person could use their hands to plant anything. And everything costs $19.95. (of course by the time you add in the S&H that price is more like $40.00.

Spring is in the air and guess what--Billy Mays and the Awesome Auger spots are back:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICvbF1uZm-I (Billy Mays' Awesome Auger ad)

This auger apparently may not be all that awesome after all--the Infomercial Reviews and Infomercial Scams websites both have listed a boatload of complaints on this product:

http://www.infomercialratings.com/product/awesome_auger_reviews

http://www.infomercialscams.com/scams/awesome_auger_complaints

 

[Grindlfan]

Part of the revitilazation of credit and thusly the economy should be congress and the FCC re-regulating commercial television time. All channels, including cable, should be barred from selling off hours and hours of time to Paid Programming Spots. Limit commercial time in each 30 minute broadcast block to 8 minutes leaving a full 22 minutes for regular programming. This should be 24/7. As for the home shopping channels, they should be an optional only channels that a cable subscriber should have the choice of whether or not to receive. I am so friggin sick and tired of paying $100 a month for cable and having nothing but paid programming on nights and weekends. Consumers are prey to the thieves selling that crap, the channels for selling the time and the cable companies because they make money on both ends. They rape subscribers with outrageous rates, they cram the shopping channels down our throats of which they receive a kick back, and they receive a percentage of all sales in each market from the infommercials! This has to stop.

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

ShamWow Vince is branching out now with the Slap Chop "food processor."
He's going to eventually top Billy Mays for good, just you wait and seeeeeee!

I just saw a report on Zap2it that the ShamWow guy is apparently in serious legal trouble of his own:

http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsideth...mi-finds-himself-tonguetied-after-arrest.html

 

[dhett]

This has to stop.

You can stop it, and the gov't doesn't need to get involved. Dump cable. They'll get the message if enough people do.

As it is, thanks to cable, local TV is on life support, especially LPTV. An LPTV station has a hard time succeeding when it can only get 10-20% of the potential audience because the cable companies (or usually company) won't carry it.

 

[ajc_trw]

ShamWow Vince is branching out now with the Slap Chop "food processor."
He's going to eventually top Billy Mays for good, just you wait and seeeeeee!

I just saw a report on Zap2it that the ShamWow guy is apparently in serious legal trouble of his own:

http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsideth...mi-finds-himself-tonguetied-after-arrest.html

Thanks for the link, made me

I thought you weren't supposed to kiss prostitutes on the mouth. :-* I guess you can't! :'(

And what about calling the cops on his hooker, isn't prostitution only legal in Nevada? :-[

This definitely made my day. Good luck, Shlomi! 8)

 

[Grindlfan]

ShamWow Vince is branching out now with the Slap Chop "food processor."
He's going to eventually top Billy Mays for good, just you wait and seeeeeee!

I just saw a report on Zap2it that the ShamWow guy is apparently in serious legal trouble of his own:

http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsideth...mi-finds-himself-tonguetied-after-arrest.html

I'll bet he was glad "camera guy" wasn't following him that night. That is just too funny.

 

[Grindlfan]

This has to stop.

You can stop it, and the gov't doesn't need to get involved. Dump cable. They'll get the message if enough people do.

As it is, thanks to cable, local TV is on life support, especially LPTV. An LPTV station has a hard time succeeding when it can only get 10-20% of the potential audience because the cable companies (or usually company) won't carry it.

I disagree. I think government regulation is the only way to eliminate this crap. Not enough people will dump their cable and most TV viewers have limited options for TV and that is only cable or satelite. Sure, you can go with the digital converter but you end up with little or no link to national and international news being that CNN, MSNBC, CNBC et al are only available via paid cable subscription. It isn't totally the cable companies fault. It is the channels selling off their time. The FCC needs to reel in those channels and limit the amount of commercial time they can sell. It is unbearable to watch how badly butchered reruns are on channels like Hallmark, Lifetime etc. to make room for more commercials. Adding insult to injury these same channels sell off hours and hours to Paid Programming spots. Even local TV stations have resorted to those idiotic half hour spots.
It was deregulated in the 80s. It needs to be reregulated today.

 

[gr8oldies]

How many people get laid off because the revenue is cut by decree. Proof positive that Americans really don't care about jobs.

 

[dhett]

I disagree. I think government regulation is the only way to eliminate this crap. Not enough people will dump their cable and most TV viewers have limited options for TV and that is only cable or satelite. Sure, you can go with the digital converter but you end up with little or no link to national and international news being that CNN, MSNBC, CNBC et al are only available via paid cable subscription. It isn't totally the cable companies fault. It is the channels selling off their time. The FCC needs to reel in those channels and limit the amount of commercial time they can sell. It is unbearable to watch how badly butchered reruns are on channels like Hallmark, Lifetime etc. to make room for more commercials. Adding insult to injury these same channels sell off hours and hours to Paid Programming spots. Even local TV stations have resorted to those idiotic half hour spots.
It was deregulated in the 80s. It needs to be reregulated today.

The government is already doing enough, thank you very much. As for national and international news, you can get that anywhere, anytime. That you're on this forum makes it safe to assume you've heard of the internet - you can get everything you need from CNN, MSNBC or CNBC there. In fact, you might want to expand your news habits to other providers - the three you mentioned will rot your brain.

My taxes are too high as it is - stop expecting the government to be your nanny, or pay for it yourself.

 

[Grindlfan]

I disagree. I think government regulation is the only way to eliminate this crap. Not enough people will dump their cable and most TV viewers have limited options for TV and that is only cable or satelite. Sure, you can go with the digital converter but you end up with little or no link to national and international news being that CNN, MSNBC, CNBC et al are only available via paid cable subscription. It isn't totally the cable companies fault. It is the channels selling off their time. The FCC needs to reel in those channels and limit the amount of commercial time they can sell. It is unbearable to watch how badly butchered reruns are on channels like Hallmark, Lifetime etc. to make room for more commercials. Adding insult to injury these same channels sell off hours and hours to Paid Programming spots. Even local TV stations have resorted to those idiotic half hour spots.
It was deregulated in the 80s. It needs to be reregulated today.

The government is already doing enough, thank you very much. As for national and international news, you can get that anywhere, anytime. That you're on this forum makes it safe to assume you've heard of the internet - you can get everything you need from CNN, MSNBC or CNBC there. In fact, you might want to expand your news habits to other providers - the three you mentioned will rot your brain.

My taxes are too high as it is - stop expecting the government to be your nanny, or pay for it yourself.

A-ha. A FOX News rightie has been smoked out.

 

[dhett]

A-ha. A FOX News rightie has been smoked out.

Except I don't have cable or satellite, so I never watch Fox News, nor do I frequent their website much. Would you like to try again?

 

[Grindlfan]

I disagree. I think government regulation is the only way to eliminate this crap. Not enough people will dump their cable and most TV viewers have limited options for TV and that is only cable or satelite. Sure, you can go with the digital converter but you end up with little or no link to national and international news being that CNN, MSNBC, CNBC et al are only available via paid cable subscription. It isn't totally the cable companies fault. It is the channels selling off their time. The FCC needs to reel in those channels and limit the amount of commercial time they can sell. It is unbearable to watch how badly butchered reruns are on channels like Hallmark, Lifetime etc. to make room for more commercials. Adding insult to injury these same channels sell off hours and hours to Paid Programming spots. Even local TV stations have resorted to those idiotic half hour spots.
It was deregulated in the 80s. It needs to be reregulated today.

The government is already doing enough, thank you very much. As for national and international news, you can get that anywhere, anytime. That you're on this forum makes it safe to assume you've heard of the internet - you can get everything you need from CNN, MSNBC or CNBC there. In fact, you might want to expand your news habits to other providers - the three you mentioned will rot your brain.

My taxes are too high as it is - stop expecting the government to be your nanny, or pay for it yourself.

First of all, if you are not a cable or satelite subscriber, what do you care? The topic of my comment was out of control paid programming on broadcast and cable/satelite channels and the fact that it needs to be regulated by government means. Your typical neo-con comments of expecting the government to be my nanny and paying for it myself make no sense. As a tax payer and a consumer of goods and services, I expect my government to work for me in my best interests. These cable channels and the cable/satelite companies are getting away with murder, much like most of corporate America and it needs to stop.

 

[BRNout]

Your typical neo-con comments of expecting the government to be my nanny and paying for it myself make no sense. As a tax payer and a consumer of goods and services, I expect my government to work for me in my best interests. These cable channels and the cable/satelite companies are getting away with murder, much like most of corporate America and it needs to stop.

Grindlfan, do you know the actual definition of a 'neo-con'? Or is it just a cool word that you heard Olbermann say during one of his rants? Because I seriously doubt that dhett is a Jewish-American former Democrat turned rightie who works in Washington and who used to advise the Bush Administration. If so, I'll ask him to give my regards to Bill Kristol. : ;D :

You know, quite unlike broadcast channels who are supposed to provide certain public services as part of their license from the FCC; cable/satellite channels have no such requirement. Their uplinked feeds are not subject to FCC regs and, if they're so bad, cable systems wouldn't carry them. They do so because lots of people watch those channels and thus there is money to be made by offering them.

And, how are they "getting away with murder" anyhow? To me, 24-hour religious beg-a-thon and home shopping channels are a lot more questionable than the channels which you cite and even they are free to do what they are doing - even if we may feel that they represent a waste of bandwidth. I just don't watch them.

Too much government control over media eventually results in a closed theocracy like Iran. Is this what you propose? Personally, I prefer to be tolerant of other views, in the interest of liberty and the common good.

 

[LKellerIII]

Well I'm not a neo-con, or any kind of "con"servative, but I agree that regulation of cable and satellite content is a slippery slope we don't want to start down. Sure - I may like it if the government limits the minutes of commercials they are allowed to run per hour, or prohibits infomercials. But before you know it, the government (or the blue-noses at the FCC) will be trying to control program content on cable/satellite for language, sex, violence, and so forth. That I am against.

Both basic and premium cable have come a long way the last few years. FX, AMC, SciFi, and others have created some of the best original sciprted programming on television. To do that, they have to spend money. They can't spend money unless they make money. They are run by for-profit corporations, they aren't PBS. Besides, pledge breaks are worse than infomercials because you never know when they're coming.

If good original cable programming means a few more infomercials during the day, I can deal with it. Nobody's forcing me to watch infomercials - in fact, I almost never do - I change the channel with that handy remote control thingee.

I agree that they shouldn't butcher classic old TV shows, but I don't want the government involved.