Now, now, let’s be charitable…oh, forgot this is the Pit. Well, then let’s just say my first reaction was a stunned-carp gape and then helpless laughter.
Sure, it’s dreadful; it genuinely sucks in musical and mercantile terms. But there is a chance, albeit remote, that Bill may be showing a vestigal sense of humor and self parody.
Okay, unlikely. He went for the bucks. Whatever. It’s still an entrancingly awful little blurb, dependable for a laugh.
Veb
I wish Mr. Shatner’d be singing “MacArthur Park”. THAT would be somethin’.
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I am soooooo confused!
Assuredly, Bill knows he can’t sing. He doesn’t really even try. I think it’s somewhat endearing that he doesn’t take himself so seriously. He’s often put himself in situations where he could parody his early career (SNL Star Trek parody comes to mind, “Get a job and move out of your parent’s basements, for God’s sake!”), much like Wayne Newton. I’m proud to be a Shatner fan and if he wants to warble in ads, so be it.
I still haven’t gotten around to going to priceline.com, though. Soon…
Some mornings, it’s just not worth chewing through the leather straps.
– Emo Phillips
I’m coming to Shatner’s defense again.
Why is Shatner the only person who gets picked on for wearing a hairpiece (now that people have stopped picking on Burt)?
No one picks on Paul Reiser, Wayne Newton, Michael Keaton, Humphrey Bogart, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, etc. And those are just a few that I can think of off the top of my head. 
So he wears a hairpiece. As do many, many other men-folk in entertainment. So it look ridiculous.
BTW, the most ridiculous hairpiece, IMHO, was worn by Liberace.
I don’t know about that. For the longest time Shatner looked like he was wearing a brillo pad.
And while Sebastion Cabot’s rendition of “It Ain’t Me, babe” was…uh…memorable. But Mae West’s rendition of “Proud Mary” was, well, nightmarish! :-<
Bitch by Birth
Yeah. That recording was weird, it made her sound just like Leonard Nimoy!
Shake it up baby…
“Shake it up Baby”, reminds me of Ethel Merman’s version of “Twist and Shout” :::SHUDDER::: i haven’t figured out what is worse about Shatner’s commercial, the singing, the acting, or the dancing.
Boldly going where no one in their right mind would go:
Keith
You want brilliance BEFORE I’ve had my coffee!!!
On an episode of Night Court, bald, giant bailiff Bull wins a contest and the prize he picks is a toupee. The name of the toupee is “The Shatner Turbo 2000.”
Night Court had a lot of TREK connections and references. John Larroquette played a Klingon in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock and Brent Spiner played a dumb hick in a few episodes before Next Generation.
From what Harlan Ellison has written about Shatner, I’d say he truly does believe he’s a good singer and doesn’t really know he’s making a fool of himself. I’m an old Trekker who liked the Classic Series in spite of Shatner, not because of him.
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I don’t know why this is a big suprise - William Shatner has shown a great willingness to lend his name to whatever people pay him money to do for quite some time. Of course, if I could make the kind of money Shatner makes by selling the use of my name, I’d do it in a second. OTOH, there’s nothing wrong with mocking him for his silliness (Mr. Tamborine man anyone?)
I first got exposed to this when I had left college, cut a yard or so off of my hair, and went to get some sort of temporary job (at the time I planned on working for a year or so until I figured out what to do; it’s been 6 years since and I haven’t figured it out yet).
One of the places I went to was a slimy-but-legitimate place selling something like air conditioner parts (I don’t remember exactly what it was, it was some kind of machinery). They worked by having you buy the parts from them, then drive around and sell them. While you could make money that way, such setups generally aren’t exactly a great way to earn a living. Rather than open up with an application or interview, they showed a batch of us a promotional videotape extolling the virtues of making money with them.
What almost made me burst out laughing at the presentation, though, was that good 'ol Captain Kirk was the celebrity they had hired to do the video. It was hard to take them very seriously after that (and even then I was clever enough to realize that this wasn’t a golden opportunity). While I don’t remember many of my old job applications/interviews from that time, this one stuck in my head.
Kevin Allegood
And why did they even bother to give him a guitar, he doesn’t even strum a note???
A word on this OP. Shatner was very clever. (I can hear the gasps now.) He took a low fee for doing these spots and in return requested instead of money that he recieve stock in the website. The site is doing excellent and William is getting paid major bucks for it. Hmmmmm, guess the guy has more brains than acting abilities eh ? “Warp speed Mr. Nasdaq.”
“Solos Dios basta” . . . but a little pizza won’t hurt.
Are you sure it was him and not his financial advisor?
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