The Carol Burnett Show has come up with several hilarious takes on some standard commercials.
No one enjoys commercials. All commercials do is seemingly interrupt our favorite television programs at the most inopportune moment. When a character has to make an important decision that will significantly alter the episode's direction and the entire series, you can bet that a commercial is only seconds away.
Unfortunately, we would not have any television programming to watch without commercials. Those ads provide the budget, paying for the shows you tune in to watch weekly. So, if we didn’t have those annoying and troublesome ads, we wouldn’t have TV shows.
While most people aren’t the biggest fans of commercials, we are all incredibly familiar with them. Most of the time, based on how the commercial is put together, we can likely guess what product the ad is trying to sell.
In a clip posted on YouTube, The Carol Burnett Show put together a series of hilarious parodies of a whole string of commercials. While the specific products in the ads may be unfamiliar to us, the type of commercials are ones we know well.
The first commercial features Harvey Korman playing chess with several people huddled around him, watching every move very closely. One of the spectators is a man noisily munching on a bag of chips. Each bite he takes gets louder and louder.
Eventually, Harvey stands up, and the two men try to outdo one another. They both take loud, highly annoying and greatly exaggerated bites of the chips.
Other commercials include Harvey pitching a coffee maker that makes any coffee “better and faster.” Given his pained and hilarious expression, his previous statement is not entirely true.
Another faux commercial included in the sketch compilation shows a mother entering her surprise party and being moved to tears. The older woman is quickly handed her gift: a box of tissues. Her daughter and the other guests then promptly exit.
Job 8:21 “The time will come when your mouth will be full of laughing, and cries of joy will come from your lips.”