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There Is A Saturday Night Live Board Game? There Is A Saturday Night Live Board Game

Gabe — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:50:32 +0000

If there is one thing that kids love these days, it is ~~SEXTING~~ board games featuring trivia questions about comedians who died of drug overdoses before they were born.

David Spade Is Sorry That People Don’t Realize How Cool The Dead Chris Farley Ad Is

Gabe — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:08:01 +0000

So, David Spade has finally sent his publicist home, and emerged from his hot tub to speak out personally about the Direct TV ad featuring his dead friend Chris Farley. From People:

When he agreed to do a DirecTV commercial featuring a scene from Tommy Boy with the late Chris Farley, actor David Spade never dreamed anybody would be offended.

“Slight shock,” Spade told PEOPLE on Wednesday night of the fallout from the ad, which some commentators saw as tasteless. “These commercials are cool. They’re well done. They’re clever. And that they would include Tommy Boy in that company, I thought was very flattering.”

Spade says featuring Tommy Boy in a commercial series that also has scenes from Back to the Future and Aliens “is so cool” since “we made this thing and people still talk about it.”

“Oh, my God if [Farley] was here, I guarantee he’d be stoked that this little movie is included,” says Spade. (Farley died in 1997 of heart failure linked to an overdose.) “The movie is important to me, and I would hate to offend [anyone] because that’s one of my favorite things I’ve ever done. So I would apologize to someone who took it that way.”

OK, well, it would be unfair to complain about David Spade hiding behind his publicist when he should be making his own statement and then to simply mock the statement that he does give. So, we should all be gracious and accept David Spade’s apology, and thank him for taking some time out of his busy hot tub schedule to respond to this IMPORTANT controversy. (That is the main thing about this, is how important it is.) But, just for the record, these ads are NOT cool! Come on, David Spade. And it is not flattering to have your movie be…part of…Direct TV’s ads? Huh?

David Spade’s Publicist Makes No Apologies For Disgraceful Farley Ad

Gabe — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:58:33 +0000

Some people, including this people, were a little grossed out by David Spade’s appearance with a CGI Chris Farley in an ad for Direct TV. I think the main reasons people were bothered by it was the fact that advertising is obnoxious, Chris Farley is dead, and shame on you, David Spade. But I’m sure he had his reasons (got to put food on your mansion). And one website decided to find out what those reasons were. From Asylum:

We reached out to David Spade through his publicist, who provided Asylum with a statement from Spade.

“When DIRECT TV came to me and the Farley family with this idea about ‘Tommy Boy,’ we talked and thought it would be a cool way to remind people just how funny Chris was. It is a clever homage to my friend and a movie that we loved doing, ” he says.

UPDATE: A spokesperson for Direct TV told us, “We should look to Chris’ family and friends for the ultimate opinion on this subject. They were involved from the beginning of this project and felt that the spot was a great to tribute to Chris.”

Oh boy. A few things about this:

SHAME ON YOU, DAVID SPADE!

Gabe — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:08:03 +0000

Really, David Spade? Cashing in on the life and work of your friend for a cheesy Direct TV commercial? I hope that they gave you a million ~~dollars~~ tissues to dry the tears over your lost integrity. I mean, everyone has to put food on their family, and for the most part I do not believe there is such a thing as selling out, but what if that food is HAUNTED?!

This really is kind of despicable! What a day today has been. It’s too much. There is only one thing that can take this edge off: