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The incredible flood of "No roaming charges, bitch!" and "Unlimited in-network calling, bitch!" jokes made us black out for a few minutes, but after we came to (the interns are pretty quick with the smelling salts), we realized that doing regional endorsements is perhaps not as distressingly small-time as we first believed. After all, Jeremy Piven's on board with the best network in Cincinnati, and when he, Vince, and the Entourage boys are cruising the Midwest for tail, he needs a service provider that isn't gonna drop his calls right as he's about to close a deal with an Explorer full of starstruck honies.
UPDATE: We hear Piven's radio commercial for Glade Scented Car Oil roughly fifteen times a day during the Stern show, but we couldn't remember for the life of us what product he was shilling for. Thanks to the readers who reminded us about this other impressive endorsement "get" for HBO's Ari Gold.
- Holiday Savings [CincinnatiBell.com]
- Previously: Defamer Party Report: Jeremy Piven’s Cheesy Halloween Come-Ons [Defamer]
Comments
OK, Mark and/or Seth (I almost would forgive Seth on this since he's a Canadian): let's spell this right. Right there on the ad, the tagline reads C-I-N-C-I-N-N-A-T-I Bell. Three N's, one T, got it? So the website would be cincinnatibell.com, and the city in Ohio would be CinciNNaTi. And no, I am not from Cincy (shudder); just a fan of Howard Hesseman/Loni Anderson sitcoms and a stickler for proper geographic spelling.
Thanks, it's fixed. But do us a favor and email things like that instead of posting them here. It's not what comments are for.
Piven has become the scourge of the Playboy mansion since getting out from under John Cusack's thumb.
(shame) On another note, are we 100% sure that's Piven in the photo? I clicked up close, and I'm on the fence a little - the guy in the ad lacks the certain "je ne sais quoi" that Piven allegedly possesses. If it is, though, I think the next logical step would be Felicity Huffman doing Wickes furniture ads... or maybe Megan Mullally singing the "Keyes on Van Nuys" jingle?
Since that phone is clearly photoshopped on to Piven's jazz hands, I'd say this ad is due for a Fark-style photoshopping contest: Other Piven-endorsed products. You have your assignment.
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