What’s the deal with Amy Schumer doing Tampax commercials and not even really be the star of the commercial?
I could see a comedian doing them if they were really funny or novel in some way. But she’s just playing a schlep who needs tampon instructions. Has her star really lost this much shine?
I think Amy Schumer is doing it ironically. It would be like a commercial with The Rock in a gym and a trainer is showing him how to lift weights. But this reminds me of a commercial with Katherine Heigl. She was a big star in Grey’s Anatomy, but kind of fell out of favor and ended up doing a weird commercial for NyQuil where she was just like a generic nobody actor.
I suppose that’s possible but she’s not famous for having periods unlike the Rock’s rather famous well toned body.
LOL! That’s true. Although I haven’t listened to all of her comedy, based on what I have heard I would not be surprised if Amy has some bits about menstruation.
I found the commercial funny. But I like Amy Schumer in general, although her most recent comedy special was pretty rough.
This NSFW sketch (featuring some huge celebrity guest stars) is one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen, in part because the satire is so incisive: Amy Schumer Last Fuckable Day Skit | POPSUGAR Love & Sex
I like Amy Schumer too. She’s great. But this is just her acting like a hapless shill. Not one joke.
I disagree, I thought there were subtle jokes there.
He’s the current “Maytag Repair Man”
Maytag Repairman
An iconic solid gig with a well known brand that could last for 10-20 years easily. It might not be as much fun as a basic cable show on a shoestring budget that was constantly on the verge of cancellation that was filmed in Vancouver (when you live in LA). But I’d guess he’s doing what he wants to do.
Yeah, I don’t think the two scenarios are comparable. Haysbert played a very serious character, president of the U.S., on a show that was seen by nearly ten times as many people as watched Eureka, and which was much higher profile in the media. And I didn’t see any problem with his being an insurance spokesman generally. It was just the scenario presented, like the reason he would be recognized in public is because he’s the “‘safer drivers save 40%‘ guy”. This puts him on a par with someone like Stephanie Courtney, who actually has become famous because of insurance commercials (she’s “Flo from Progressive”) when in fact he was presumably paid a lot of money right out of the gate because he was already an established presence who would project authority as a corporate pitchman.
Weirdly, a Haysbert commercial (on Colbert) popped up just as I was about to click “Send”. It was also a little goofy (that seems to be how they have pivoted from his original persona) but not, at least, predicated on Allstate having been the ones who “made” him (awfully presumptuous on their part).
Yeah, I was kind of surprised to see that.
Is anyone “famous for having periods”?
She is also now doing a series of obnoxious Comcast Xfinity commercials. She’s outworn her welcome at our house, though we only see them on the news where we don’t pre-record and fast forward.
Commander in Chief with Geena Davis. It ran for 18 episodes on ABC in 2005.
One of my faves from Amy Schumer is the satirical boy band music video “Girl You Don’t Need Makeup”.
In Madam Secretary, Téa Leoni’s titular character spent the final (short) season as President
I actually enjoyed that show (Commander in Chief), but her being female wasn’t “tangential to the main plot”, which was my criterion. What I mean is that it was kind of interesting how Haysbert was not president on a show that was about the first Black president. The show was about Jack Bauer fighting terrorism, and a conspiracy at the top levels of government, and the actor they used to play the president happened to be Black. This was also the way Morgan Freeman was portrayed as president in Deep Impact.
He’ll always be Serrano in Major League to me…
I suspect that it’s like any other contract- they don’t have to do it, but there are likely penalties if they don’t. So one option would be to just phone it in and let them choose if they wanted to actually air such lackluster commercials or not.
But I also bet that unless you’re a big Hollywood star, or otherwise have some leverage, you’re definitely shooting yourself in the foot and setting all your bridges on fire if you do.
Replying to myself - wrong Amy. I have a real problem with this, maybe because I didn’t watch their stuff. What makes it worse, this was a clue in the Times mini-puzzle today.
An old slap face icon should go here.
Supergirl had a women president and the fact that she was a woman was incidental to the plot.
I know the thread moved a bit since the OP, but from a legal standpoint, the studio couldn’t force the actor to play the role they signed a contract for. Instead the contract would spell out the financial consequences of the actor backing out. If the contract was too poorly written to do that, the studio would have to sue, basing the damages of what they spent setting up the sound set, writing the script and other costs that they spent because they were promised the actor would participate. The actor would argue that they should only pay the costs to shut down the set for a couple of days while the studio recast, as the studio has the duty to minimize damages, and it was unlikely that the studio was only going to shoot an ad if they could get a specific actor. This is on the assumption that the actor is to blame for withdrawing. If the script was changed to include a deadly stunt after the actor signed, they have a pretty good argument that the studio may have to pay the actor damages.