Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/12/09/a-gin-company-already-made-a-s.html
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Ryan Reynolds is a national treasure. Someone let Canada know they can’t have him back.
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It’s a deep fake, you can tell by the pixels.
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Well, at least she didn’t need to gain her shot at stardom by starring in Law & Order as Dead Bystander #2.
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Maybe “Grace from Boston” can become an on going character across multiple advertising campaigns; like an amped up version of Monkey!
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I like the nod to the Peloton ad when her friend says “You look good, by the way”.
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Is it worth my while to find out who the hell Ryan Reynolds is?
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Actor, probably most famous as Deadpool, these days, I think.
And, no, I don’t know how he’s connected to the commercial.
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It’s his gin company.
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Ryan Reynolds owning a gin company seems totally appropriate and sort of comforting.
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Ah.
I also heard that’s why Gorgeous Clooney doesn’t bother with acting anymore. He become a billionaire when he sold off his tequila company.
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you don’t know who Ryan Reynolds is?!?
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He seems to be a stand-up guy. I read about this yesterday:
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My only issue with Ryan Reynolds is that he got married at a fucking plantation.
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George Clooney used money from a coffee advert to buy satellite imaging of Sudan to try and track war crimes.
So not only is he much better looking than me, he’s also a much better human being.
Dick 
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OK, did my due dili and I’ve not seen anyone post this chestnut yet:
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Eh. I don’t think she has a distinctive enough “look” for the ad to really work - I wouldn’t have even realized it’s the same actress until the “you look really good, by the way!” line. Might have been better if she was sitting there in her workout clothes or something.
99.9999% of the people who see it will be told the context of the ad at the same moment they see the ad, just like we were. I’d be surprised if they were paying to run this anywhere—unless they could somehow swing a deal where it ran immediately after the Peloton ad.
You don’t have to like viral ads (or gin, or stationary bikes) but this was extremely well done by the standards of the genre.
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Which just means that everyone knows the punchline before they hear the joke. Just not that funny.
