Sunday, November 7, 2021

When icons shill (2020)

 Uber Eats began their series of celebrity-driven ads last year, and some of these spots have been pretty funny, or, in the case of Olympic gymnastics champion Simone Biles being paired with Jonathan Van Ness (Queer Eye For The Straight Guy), cringe-worthy.

However, Uber got off to a good start with a pair of genre legends.

Think of it as Luke Skywalker vs. Jean-Luc Picard. Or, if you're a comics fan, The Joker vs. Professor Charles Xavier.

In other words, Mark Hamill and Patrick Stewart appeared in a series of spots similar to what Lil Nas X is doing now with rock icon Sir Elton John. And, at the end of this compilation, I think we get a wee bit of the Joker from Hamill, whose television career dates all the way back to the early 70's, well before "Star Wars".


Cosmic, yo'.

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