# New Gap Commercial - who is it?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-gap-commercial-who-is-it/95764
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [November 28, 2001, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-gap-commercial-who-is-it/95764 "2001-11-28T19:31:38Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@Jsochock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jsochock)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2001, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-gap-commercial-who-is-it/95764/1 "2001-11-28T19:31:38Z")
There’s a guy with sunglasses on singing after Dwight (Yoakum?) that sounds like Tom Waits but isn’t. Who is it?
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### Author:  [@Hodge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hodge)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2001, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-gap-commercial-who-is-it/95764/2 "2001-11-28T19:41:31Z")
If it’s the same commercial I’ve seen then that guy is Robbie Robertson, ex-guitar player for **The Band**
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### Author:  [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2001, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-gap-commercial-who-is-it/95764/3 "2001-11-28T19:53:08Z")
I was wondering the same thing about that commercial, except I couldn’t figure out who the black guy was. He’s the guy that comes on after the dude from Goo Goo Dolls.
Anyone know who THAT is?
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### Author:  [@Guy\_Propski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guy_Propski)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2001, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-gap-commercial-who-is-it/95764/4 "2001-11-28T20:03:50Z")
Hodge–that’s the 2nd guy. I listed them in order, and it’s the fourth man, the African-American gentleman, that I’m drawing a blank on.
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### Author:  [@Guy\_Propski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guy_Propski)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2001, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-gap-commercial-who-is-it/95764/5 "2001-11-28T20:05:08Z")
Whoops! I just realized that you weren’t posting to my question, but to a post almost identical to mine. I knew the 3 guys were Dwight Yoakum, Robbie Robertson, and Johnny Reznik.
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### Author:  [@Hodge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hodge)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2001, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-gap-commercial-who-is-it/95764/6 "2001-11-28T20:19:27Z")
I think the black guy at the end is Shaggy.
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### Author:  [@jk1245](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jk1245)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2001, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-gap-commercial-who-is-it/95764/7 "2001-11-28T20:41:54Z")
Yep, the 4th guy is Shaggy. I think one version of the ad starts with Seal also.
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### Author:  [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2001, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-gap-commercial-who-is-it/95764/8 "2001-11-28T22:55:16Z")
Since there is another thread on this subject on this very page, I’m going to close this one.