Will Ferrell Stars in New Apple "Switch" Ads

Znonymous Coward writes "Just in time for the holidays... Apple has posted a couple of funny new switch adds staring Will Ferrell as Santa."

Comments

Interesting, no?

[Hanji]

Isn't it interesting how the content of these switch adds tends to be completely ignored, but apple keeps posting them, because of their great amusement value?

Re:Interesting, no?

[wbswbs]

The content at this point is irrelevant. Apple's message that switching to MacOS X is a good thing is out there already--most potential "switchers" already now about the campaign and its purposes. The Will Ferrell-type switch ads are primarily to maintain buzz/mindshare. I seems to be working, at least here on /.

Oh my! Are these for TV?

[agent oranje]

I laughed my ass off at the first one of these - and I'm amazed that apple actually put these up on their site. If I didn't already make the switch, i think santa would fix that for me.

adds - ads

[*xpenguin*]

add: 2 + 2 = 5
ad: advertisement

Re:adds - ads

[Myco]

2 + 2 = 5

Wait, is that right?

Re:Funny????

[WatertonMan]

Come on. How could you not like the fact that Santa has on his iPod 600 Christmas tunes, 20 Doobie Brothers and 1 Sheryl Crowe?

What I like is that Apple is poking fun at their own Switch ads. Great stuff. Here's hoping we have some more.

Wait..

[PeekabooCaribou]

Does this mean Will Ferrell isn't really Santa? =(

Nice try

[tedDancin]

They're good, but they sure don't beat Microsofts' "Steve Ballmer plays big sweaty elf under the mistletoe showing off XP's security features" switch campaign.

How fitting

[PhysicsGenius]

Will Ferrell : Humor :: Apple : Serious computing

Ugh

[XBL]

The background music in these ads is about as annoying as Will Ferrell. These switch ads are about as stale as Cowboy Neal in a Slashdot poll.

I would like to see Steve Job in a Switch ad. Now that would be funny. Then please retire the campaign after that Apple.
</troll>

Re:Ugh

[mbbac]

Steve could be in a switch ad. He switched to Macintosh after using NeXT for a while after he came back to Apple.

Another reason I like Apple.

[heldlikesound]

Yes, they have problems, yes, they should open things up a bit more (Quicktime), and yes they should use their legal hounds much less, but can you name another computer company with this kind of sense of humor? I can't imagine, Dell, Microsloth, Gateway, or IBM putting these kind of ads online... They are not really business related (he doesn't talk about Apple products that much..), they are just fun little spoofs on the Switch ad campaign.

Bravo Apple, now just send those lawyers up to the North Pole...

IBM?

[PaulBu]

Well, actually their Linux commercials/ads
were quite funny!

See:

http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/industry/04/19/ibm. gu erilla.idg/

or

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/11/business/media /1 1ADCO.html

("He just loves the game..." :) )

Paul B.

People who liked those ads...

[Hard_Code]

...also enjoyed:

Will Ferrell Apple Switch Spoof shown at MacWorld

Re:People who liked those ads...

[berniecase]

Thank you for linking to my page. Maybe someday I'll get /.'d, but for now I can just watch the access_log scrollin' on by. :-)

Re:People who liked those ads...

[happystink]

Stop linking unamerican, they are super well known for not actually mailing out items that people order, or leaving them for 6 months before shipping. I'm sure you'll say "they sent mine okay", but do some googling and you'll see you're advertising a ripoff.

Fish In Pocket...

[usr122122121]

Is it just me, or does Will Ferrell in a Santa Suit remind you of the scene in Trading Places (83) where a very drunk Dan Akroyd wanders around in a Santa suit stealing food at a stock broker's christmas party...

oh, it is just me? nevermind then.

Re:Anakin darkside switch parody

[voisine]

http://www.pixelred.com/switch.htm

lets try that again...

Re:Anakin darkside switch parody

[Kizzle]

If I see another Star Wars parody I'm going to vomit and then stab my self in the eye with a butter knife. If you do a search on atom films for Star Wars you will get at least 50 parodys. THEY ARE NOT FUNNY ANYMORE. I hope you burn in hell for posting this.

Re:Anakin darkside switch parody

[usr122122121]

If I see another Star Wars parody I'm going to vomit and then stab my self in the eye with a butter knife.

Quick, post another Star Wars parody-
I want to see this!

Re:It's not a parody of anything...

[mrpuffypants]

this just in.....fun exists and people appreciate it from ANY company

old?

[dcstimm]

isnt this old. I remember seeing one a long time ago that will farrell did, he was talking about pudding and it appered at the mac world show.

Not surprising he is doing more.... Since he probably is broke since he stoped doing SNL.

he is the funniest man alive

"now pee your pants"

The Penis Mightier

[goombah99]

Or was

The Pen is Mightier

For $200 please.

How about Yo-Yo Ma?

[TomatoMan]

http://www.apple.com/switch/ads/yoyoma.html

If you're going to talk about new Switch ads, I'd personally rather listen to Yo-Yo Ma than Will Ferrell. He's new up there too. Might be worth a teeny mention.

Re:How about Yo-Yo Ma?

[Profane Motherfucker]

Too bad he comes across as an arrogant fool who wouldn't know which part of his body goes on the toilet. If anything, I don't *want* to be associated with him in any fashion.

"I'm a shitter. Not a porcelain user. I like to poop. When I feel like pooping, I want to just poop. In the street. At a Chinese restaurant. In my trousers.

"With my old low-flow toilet, I had to be so crazy watchful of my bowel movements. The turkish G12 toilet from Pfitzer lets me stand an pinch one off, if I want. That's what pooping is about. Not porcelain, or barriers to my poopoing. I can shit right on the floor if I want. It's just a hole.

"My name is Yo-Yo Ma, and I eat a lot of bulk fiber."

Re:How about Yo-Yo Ma?

[Laplace]

Or like Bobby saying

"My name is Bobby Fisher, and I'm an anti-semite."

Bobby would never say the first thing, because he's a prick. He would say the second, because he's a prick.

better switch ad

[Polo]

This is

The Best Switch Ad

of all...

News

[Konster]

Yo Yo Ma got married to a very nice woman from Hong Kong.

Newspapers print the message as Yo Yo Ma Marries Yo Ma Ma.

Before you mod me down, please consider that I told this joke in Beijing, Hong Kong and Taipei, and everyone got it and everyone loved it.

So funny

[Anonymous Coward]

These are great. Seriously I like that Apple has fun with these and (maybe) lets Will just spout off crazy stuff. It shows that cool-hipness I've always thought apple had. How many companies are going to show a comercial where santa says 'i got my ass handed to me' lol.

btw to the people who were saying how these have nothing to do with Mac's, they know, thats why it says 'parodies of our switcher ads' its just apple being apple and having fun. I imagine its probably a lot of fun to shoot these ads with Will Ferrell and that he says a lot more off the wall funny stuff that we'll never get to see ;)

strange this one is unavailable...

[johnpaul191]

directly from Apple.com

i was at MWNYC this summer and every time it ran people seemed to laugh a lot..... i guess they made a lot of them with him.... there are a lot more actors/musicians/people in the public eye that supposedly shot spots that are yet to surface.... everyone from Lou Reed to Harry Knowles (the guy that runs aintitcoolnews.com) supposedly recorded them.

I like this one better ...

[belbo]

The 'switch' parody from 'drunkgamers'. (URL points to a list of mirrors, file size is 14 MB, file type is .mov).

Of course, Apple is hardly likely to post that one *g*

b.

P.S.: Who is Will Ferrell anyway?