Interesting celebrity commercials with John Cleese, Dustin Hoffman and Alan Alda

Here's some more classic celebrity commercials. They are not as bad as most of the ones I've posted here.

First up, Sir John Gielgud for Paul Masson wine, and its immortal cathphrase.

Bruno Sammartino, Bobby Riggs, Phil Esposito, Brooks Robinson, Johnny Unitas and Walt Frazier all pretend like they love to hang out at Bally's Atlantic City. The weird audio edit at the end is far more annoying than what they intended (humor?).

A post-MASH Alan Alda tries to sell Atari computers (just before Commodore's Jack Tramiel took over the company from Warner Bros. and initiated a race-to-the-bottom price war that only further exacerbated the Video Game Crash). And a pre-MASH Mike Farrell sells Schmidt's Big Mouth Beer. Both of these are likely already addressed in this post.

One of many commercials for Memorex tape featuring the great Ella Fitzgerald. Chuck Mangione is also in the ad with her, and from the way they describe things, could this be for the short-lived and elusive Type III audio tape?! This (and the next ad) are taken from the April 14, 1979 broadcast of SNL with host Milton Berle (a train wreck).

The Commodores sell Schlitz beer; it's catchy and goofy. Schlitz is the same company that would make The Bull malt liquor a few years later.

Here's Dustin Hoffman showing some pretty good physical comedy/comedic timing chops while showing off the Volkswagen Type 3. For some non-Dustin Hoffman, non-Type 3 VW commercials (all about the Beetle/Bug aka Type 1) check out this blog post.

John Cleese for American Express.

And finally, Tim Conway for Lays potato chips