I've given my cars names, although I would never call one "Brad". I usually refer to my Durango as The Beast, especially after it killed a deer earlier this year. And as to insurance companies? USAA rocks!
I think this whole series from Swiffer uses "real" people, like the old couple (Morty and his wife) and a couple of others that I'm not remembering offhand.
I'll save you a seat at the table, millennium.
Absolutely! And I spend half the show trying to figure out where on Long Island certain scenes were filmed. I ran across them a number of times before I moved off the Island a few years ago.
To quote The West Wing....
While we're at it, do we have to use the word "live" twice in the first two sentences
like we just cracked the technology? We're also broadcasting in living color, right?
Yes, the Jets cut him even before the press conference announcing the incident. Days later, former Jets head coach Rex Ryan picked him up for the Buffalo Bills.
Yes, it is Norm MacDonald, as the "real" Col. Sanders. He's not as creepy as Darrell Hammond, but I don't know that it's particularly a good concept either way:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BP5zhx-PfA&feature=youtu.be