This Sierra Mist commercial featuring Kathy Griffin ("It's Pat," "Pulp Fiction," "My Life on the D-List") and Michael Ian Black ("Ed," "The Baxter," "Stella") ran on Thursday night's edition of "The Daily Show," which featured a brilliant report about the foiled British bomb plot involving the use of liquid explosives aboard airliners. Correspondent John Oliver on the sudden ban on carrying liquids aboard passenger jets: "I'm afraid these terrorists have struck at what we in the West hold most dear: our beverages. They resent our wide array of fluid refreshment options. We live in the most easily quenched part of the world and they hate that.... Unfortunately, the men arrested were British citizens, which means the form of government here in Britian must not be democracy, for as you know, democracy is the only known antidote to extremism... It means regime change, Jon. America must topple the British government."
The premise of the ad is that airport security guard Griffin detains Black and pretends her wand is beeping when she passes it over his bottle of Sierra Mist. Don't expect to see this spot in heavy rotation much longer....
Too late; it's been immortalized
It was a semi-amusing spot, but nothing I'm going to miss terribly. If there's anything of edible thought present here, though, it's that the government isn't doing a particularly good job at imagining the ways in which the terrorists might actually try to again put us in harm's way. Funny how artists are so often attacked for empathizing (not sympathizing) with the enemy (such as Steven Spielberg in Munich), only to be proven right after all the unnecessary hullabaloo?
Bah, I won't miss it.
Those Sierra Mist commercials were funny for a while, but once they got Max Shreck (You know her as Kathy Griffin) in them, they became increasingly awful.
What was Kathy Griffin in Pulp Fiction?
Brian: KG is the woman who points out Bruce Willis at the scene of the accident in "Pulp Fiction." (Julia Sweeney plays Harvey Keitel's junkyard girlfriend Rachel, and Steve Hibbert -- also of The Groundlings -- is The Gimp.) Quentin later cast Griffin as a girl scout troop leader in the episode of "E.R." that he directed. When we wrote the part of Pat's neighbor in "It's Pat" we called her Kathy Griffin, and cast Kathy in the role -- because she wasn't getting nearly the amount of work we thought she deserved to get at the time. At least she got a paycheck!
I used to spend a LOT of time at The Groundlings, and I've been a big fan of Griffin's for many years. I pointed out this ad not because she was in it (and I think she's very good in it), but because it was shown in the same episode of "The Daily Show" with the bit about fluids being forbidden on airplanes.
i actually really liked sierra mist's choice of taking four or five actors and casting them in different roles in different commericals - it gave the ads a very sketch comedy sort of feel, where michael ian black (very underrated if you ask me, especially if you've only seen him in those i