Then and Now: Actors (and their Voices) in Commercials

[Rick Kitchen]

Except that Norm is taking a lie detector, and it detects a lie when he says he's the Colonel.

[Fiddler1]

Can somebody identify the blonde woman who says "They're totally incompetent" in this DirectTv ad?  She's after the first woman at about 30 seconds in.  It's driving me nuts!  :)

 

Edited October 3, 2015 by Fiddler1

[Bort]

Can somebody identify the blonde woman who says "They're totally incompetent" in this DirectTv ad?  She's after the first woman at about 30 seconds in.  It's driving me nuts!  :)

 

I think it's Jeanetta Arnette.

[Prevailing Wind]

Why are all the women blonde?

[Fiddler1]

I think it's Jeanetta Arnette.

 

YES!!!  I knew her voice and manner, but just couldn't place her.   Thank you!!  Now I won't have to go through my day with that nagging at my brain ;)

[theatremouse]

Although I wouldn't have necessarily thought of Norm MacDonald as perfect casting, I think he's doing a good job--better than Darrell Hammond was. At first I thought it was a case of the agency "keeping us on our toes" and that we'd soon see Hammond returning to the role, but now it appears Norm has settled in for the long haul. (Or however long the haul turns out to be.) I wonder what the story is there. Hammond not testing well in focus groups? Hammond being temperamental and all method-y ("the Colonel wouldn't say this!")? Something else?

The impression I got from the series is that they intend (possibly intended all along) to do a sort of rotating "No I'm the Colonel" thing. Hammond's talked about his being "back" and McDonald's began with him asserting himself as "the real colonel" so I think this is a long haul thing, possibly always was, and probably there will be still more revolving door colonels. I don't think it was necessarily a case of one being let go in favor of the other. (I could be wrong.)

Maybe they had the idea when they decided to bring him back as a character, since obviously the real guy is dead, that to sort of deflect attention from the notion that of course, no one can be the colonel now since he was real, they'd just plain play with the idea of who is playing him and the fact that it involves playing him, etc.

Edited October 3, 2015 by theatremouse

[Milburn Stone]

Maybe they had the idea when they decided to bring him back as a character, since obviously the real guy is dead, that to sort of deflect attention from the notion that of course, no one can be the colonel now since he was real, they'd just plain play with the idea of who is playing him and the fact that it involves playing him, etc.

 

Very plausible.

[Milburn Stone]

In a Draft Kings commercial aired on last night's NLCS game, I heard Ed Norton doing the voiceover.

[Milburn Stone]

Heard John Doman doing a voiceover for something on last night's NLCS game. Can't remember what, but I do remember thinking he was doing a good job of it.

 

Edited to add: It's for Michelin.

Edited October 23, 2015 by Milburn Stone

[Shriekingeel]

Those Rashida Jones/Peggy Lipton commercials are all charm.

[LoneHaranguer]

It's sad enough that they've got a grey-haired Henry Winkler pushing reverse mortgages; did they have to put him in the same kind of geeky checkered shirt that Richie and Ralph wore on Happy Days?

[Prevailing Wind]

But he still has that gigawatt radiant smile at the end of the ad!

[Rick Kitchen]

I absolutely love that bright red and gold couch and cushions that Henry is sitting on in that ad, though.

[Milburn Stone]

Another John Doman voiceover "sighting": Corporate Walmart commercials on the CNBC Republican Debate.

[Milburn Stone]

Heard Sigourney Weaver's voice last night. I think it was a commercial for a cellular service but I don't exactly remember anymore.

[Rick Kitchen]

Johnny Depp for Dior.  Nice eye shadow.

 

http://www.ispot.tv/ad/AkOT/dior-sauvage-the-new-fragrance-featuring-johnny-depp

[CarpeDiem54]

Johnny Depp always looks like he's dying of some dreaded disease. He's one of the most unattractive men out there.

[Prevailing Wind]

Except if he cleaned up, he'd look pretty fine.  I think he's purposely trying to sabotage his looks, hoping to be taken more seriously.  Try harder, John.

[BW Manilowe]

Since we're talking about him... Johnny Depp was just named 1 of the most overpaid actors (#1 on the list) by Forbes magazine.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/natalierobehmed/2015/12/22/hollywoods-most-overpaid-actors-of-2015-johnny-depp-leads-denzel-washington-will-ferrell/

[Rick Kitchen]

Evan Rachel Wood and Chris Evans for Gucci.

 

http://www.ispot.tv/ad/Aosq/gucci-guilty-the-new-chapter-feat-evan-rachel-wood-chris-evans

[Shriekingeel]

Is that TJ Miller from Silicon Valley as the new voice of Mucus from the Mucinex commercials? In the past I always wondered why, with the previous voice, mucus would have a Brooklyn accent.

[Rick Kitchen]

I'm sure Kristi Yamaguchi isn't hurting for money on her own, let alone the million dollar company her husband owns, so why is she doing commercials for Airborne?

[OSM Mom]

The same reason Evander Holyfield is shilling for Carl's Jr.

[AimingforYoko]

Kristi Yamaguchi needs to pay child support?

[BW Manilowe]

Kristi Yamaguchi needs to pay child support?

Nope. She's still married (as far as I know, & according to a poster upthread). Maybe she/her family just likes Airborne, so she agreed to do the ads.

[AimingforYoko]

It wasn't a comment on Kristi, it was a joke on Evander Holyfield's many problems in that area.

[ennui]

Actors do commercials because it's a big paycheck for minimal time commitment. Some of them get $millions.

[AimingforYoko]

Norm McDonald is out, Jim Gaffigan is in as the new Col. Sanders. I'm kind of liking the bit.

https://youtu.be/C29yrzFYF4Q

[mmecorday]

I was a big "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" fan and was surprised to see Iyari Limon in this ad for Linzess. I never cared for her character very much, but I had the opportunity to meet her at a convention many years ago and I really liked her.

 

http://www.ispot.tv/ad/7iS2/linzess-calm-the-raging-storm

Edited February 16, 2016 by mmecorday

[Rick Kitchen]

Olympic gold medalist Jonny Mosely is doing Toyota commercials locally in Northern California.  He's playing up his "skier dude" persona.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t_CN-rKZ-s

[Dirtybubble]

 

I die a little inside every time I see the Kia commercials with Christopher Walken narrating.  Did they fire the hamsters?

[Moose135]

I die a little inside every time I see the Kia commercials with Christopher Walken narrating.  Did they fire the hamsters?

 

I think he may have eaten them...

[Rick Kitchen]

Katherine Heigl is in a series of cat litter ads

 

[riley702]

That's hilarious!

[Bruinsfan]

I think he may have eaten them...

Or thrown them off a boat...

[spaceytraci1208]

There was a commercial on earlier for Reverse Mortgages...the voice actor sounded like he was going for a Morgan Freeman impression, but sounded a little more like Cleveland Brown (of Seth MacFarlane's "The Cleveland Show")...anyone else know what I'm talking about?  Lol

[thesaura73]

Hello! New to posting here. Does anyone know who the actress is in the Kaiser-Permanente Medicare commercials?

[ABay]

Seeing the former "can you hear me now" guy makes me wonder what's become of the cute Sprint guy in the raincoat who was around at about the same time.

[Jaded]

11 hours ago, ABay said:

Seeing the former "can you hear me now" guy makes me wonder what's become of the cute Sprint guy in the raincoat who was around at about the same time.

I can't find anything saying what he's doing now. Here's his wiki, IMDB profiles and Twitter though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Baker_(actor)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0048294/

https://twitter.com/brianbakeractor
 

Edited October 2, 2016 by Jaded

[Unipenguin]

David Furr has a recurring role on Madame Secretary, and trying to place his voice is driving me crazy. Anyone know what commercials or voiceover work he's done?

[Jamoche]

7 hours ago, Unipenguin said:

David Furr has a recurring role on Madame Secretary, and trying to place his voice is driving me crazy. Anyone know what commercials or voiceover work he's done?

ispot only has one ad for him. https://www.ispot.tv/ad/72Kw/campbells-tomato-soup-wisest-kid-new-activity

[EighteenTwelve]

Donald Sutherland's orange juice narration is creeping me out, because every time he says "Ah, my precious oranges", I'm expecting him to be President Snow and end the sentence with something horrible.

[Rinaldo]

18 hours ago, Unipenguin said:

David Furr has a recurring role on Madame Secretary, and trying to place his voice is driving me crazy. Anyone know what commercials or voiceover work he's done?

This isn't commercials or voiceover, and almost certainly you haven't heard it before (thus making me triply non-responsive to your question!), but after David Furr and Santino Fontana costarred in The Importance of Being Earnest on Broadway in 2011, they did a series of short videos called "Jersey Shore Gone Wilde," in which they simply spoke verbatim dialogue from Jersey Shore in the upper-class British accents, and in the costumes, of that classic play. Very silly, and I find it almost irresistible to watch all five parts at one sitting.

[ennui]

On 9/23/2016 at 3:47 PM, thesaura73 said:

Hello! New to posting here. Does anyone know who the actress is in the Kaiser-Permanente Medicare commercials?

I can't see the video, but I believe Allison Janney does the Kaiser ads.

[AimingforYoko]

I wonder if Mucinex is going to dump TJ Miller after his troubles this weekend.

[Sandman87]

Sounds like James Urbaniak (aka the voice of Rusty Venture) is the announcer in the ads for Taco Bell's new Naked Chicken Chalupa.

And I just realized today that Chris Parnell (Cyril from Archer, Jerry from Rick & Morty) is the annoying narcissistic Box in the Progressive commercials.

Edited February 11, 2017 by Sandman87

[Sandman87]

Madison Bumgarner's Ford commercials make him sound like Boomhauer from King of the Hill. I keep expecting him to say something like "Yeah man, I tell you what...talkin' 'bout... talkin' 'bout...them big dang ol' Ford trucks, man."

Edited February 16, 2017 by Sandman87

[rallymantis]

So: is the Geico gekko moonlighting (w/accent tweak) as Humpty Dumpty in the Turbo Tax ads?

Edited February 18, 2017 by rallymantis
Because I finally remembered which tax ap it was

[riley702]

Sounds similar, but I suck at recognizing voices.

[Milburn Stone]

@rallymantis, the two voices do sound very similar, but my expectation is that Geico would have an exclusivity agreement with their gecko-guy, especially as it pertains to other clients in the "financial services sector." (Which this one is.)

Edited February 22, 2017 by Milburn Stone