Have you seen him?
He’s the guy who David Spade is teaching to say “NO”?
He’s also the guy who screams “woooooo hooooooo” out the window as his Volswagen Jetta accelerates past anohter car.
He’s also now in the Enterprise Rent-A-Car commercial.
Someone needs to tie this guy down.
Sorry, can’t find an image. Big, schlubby guy.
Yeah that dude is getting around. Maybe if he’s lucky he’ll end up hosting a show on the Food Network like that “I love my dad, but I don’t want his hairline” guy. He was in about every commercial for a while before that. I think his show now is called “The Secret Life of Dot Dot Dot” but I may be mistaken.
Presumably the “I am masturbating like a motherfuck” is implied?
Every once and a while there seems to be a person who’ll I’ll notice in several commercials. A good example of this is the guy who now does The Soup on E. He did the Burger King commercials that were set in an office (he was the supervisor, I think) and he did at least one for NutriGrain.
Odds are the guy the OP is talking about will get a sitcom where he’ll play a fat befuddled man with an insanely hot wife. Hilarity (and, of course, penis) will then ensue.
Perhaps the wacky best friend/neighbor will be played by this guy, who I noticed this past weekend in a new DHL commercial with Johnny Damon, highlighting a promo agreement that DHL apparently now has with Major League Baseball.
Come on, guys, let some other actors get some work!
I knew exactly who you were talking about just reading the thread title. I hate that guy.
In that thread, they talk about “my” guy, and mention a couple of other commercials he’d done.
FTR, I don’t hate this guy. I think he’s a little bit funny actually.
On Canadian TV there’s these guys that are basically in every commercial (you’ll recognize them altogether as Listerene Guy, Dental Floss guy, and Toothbrush guy, then you’ll see them everywhere - especially toothbrush guy). I saw an interview with them where they talked about how their extreemely average looks gave them some sort of “everyman” appeal that make them the go-to guys whenever advertisers can’t find anybody else.
Actors in ads usually get “residuals” payments as long as the ad still runs. The justification is that it’s supposedly hard to get work as long as you’re known as the Clean-O-Rama guy. This actor sure puts the lie to that.
There’s another actor playing a doofus in several ads. He’s the guy eating a powdered donut while his friend pays bills online. He also plays the fool in a car in a fastfood drive-through. He’s the guy who switches, mid-ad, from NetZero to Netscape.
That guy was also in Hitch (the Will Smith movie).
There’s another guy. He’s a light-skinned black guy (I think). In the new Lime Coke commercial, and a McGriddle’s commercial awhile ago. I believe he’s also in a Burger King commercial.
Oh, yeah. That’s No Chin Guy. He’s got curly hair, right?
That’s my guy. Although he is got a competitor for go to black guy. The “new” black guy is the guy in the new burger king commercial where the burger king is waiting for him outside his window, and then he pulld up the shade. He’s got a few others I can’t think of right now. I don’t know who he is either, but apparently these guys are the only two black people doing commercials.
No, he doesn’t.
Commercial actors who become very closely associated with one particular product or run of commercials often do find it very difficult to overcome their typecasting. This is usually true for actors whose persona is somehow recognizably original.
This kid=nd of typecasting is less likely to happen to a guy who seems more average in persona – this guy strikes me as that kind.
In any case, while this guy has managed to land maybe three or four commercials in a space of a couple of years, it’s not likely that you’re going to see him in three or four different commercials for the rest of his life. The averages just don’t work out that way. Any day now, someone’s going to be asking “What happened to that woooo! guy in the VW commercial? You don’t see him any more.”
Heh. El hubbo and I were just commenting on the fact that if you’re a black dude, you’d do well to grow your hair out and pretty much stop combing it. You’d be a shoe-in for commercial work these days.
By the way, that Burger King commercial scared the ever lovin’ crap out of me. I literally ran screaming from the room. Wtf is up with that scary-ass king? Seriously, if I opened my blinds in the morning and that…thing…was standing there, he’d have caught three, center mass.
The actor’s name is Nate Torrence.
Of the two guys mentioned, I thought you might also be talking about the NetZero/annoying cellphone guy/Upright Citizens Brigade guy.
Hmm…it seems his credits include “Moviegoer,” “Pizza Guy,” and the ever popular “Young Man.”
He was also “Chunky Lineman,” and I’m hoping that’s a characterization and not a character name.
I hate when the same person does several commercials. See this page for examples. I keep thinking about how I saw them in some other ad and I don’t even see what the new ad is about.
Like that guy in the A535 ad… dancing around flexing his muscles while this dumb music plays. I can’t see him anywhere else now without hearing that music and thinking of the little dance.
Once you’ve been in some annoying commercials, isn’t your acting career sort of screwed? You’ll always be the Pine-Sol lady or the Doritos guy.
Thank god! So we never again have to see the “Dude, you got a Dell” guy.
Best chuckle I’ve had all day.
My room mate doesn’t like this guy either for the same reasons. I OTOH love BK-dude just for fact that he is so creepy.