Gotvmail.com has paid ex-coked-out actor Gary Busey to star in 40 (yes, that's four-zero) ads hawking their business phone services. The ads, which I ran across on Gawker, feature Mr. Joshua speaking directly into the camera, pitching his can't-miss business ideas. Gawkers highlights include Agt. Pappas' brilliant idea for hair dye marketed to black bears, allowing the threatened species to look more like polar bears and sneak onto the endangered list. I prefer his stirring rendition of Gotvmail's theme song:
You have to hand it to Gotvmail; these are sure to get a ton of play across the Web in the next few days. And for all that publicity, I'm sure they only had to shell out an 8-ball or two.
This article appears in Jul 16-22, 2008.
