We know that Andy was in a few commercials. He was in Web commercials for York patties and then in Pepsi commercial with Justin Timberlake. Surely nobody minds Andy making a few bucks doing this, having fun with it, and entertaining us.
But what about the recent commercial where David Spade re-appeared in Tommy Boy again, changing his lines to sell DirecTV? Was that exploiting Chris Farley and Tommy Boy?
Check out this article:
If he had to do it again, David Spade wouldn't agree to hawking DIRECTV alongside a scene with his late friend Chris Farley from "Tommy Boy."
"I wouldn't want anyone to get a whiff that I'm trying to get something off Chris," he told People magazine.
The 30-second commercial, which played during the World Series, has been chided by some critics as being tasteless. In it, Farley does his famous "Fat Boy in a Little Coat" routine from the 1995 movie while Spade, inserted into the scene by technology, promotes the satellite service.
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Spade expressed "slight shock" that anyone would find the ad offensive.Read all the critiques here:
"These commercials are cool," he told People. "They're well done. They're clever. And that they would include "Tommy Boy" in that company, I thought was very flattering."
"Oh, my God if [Farley] was here, I guarantee he'd be stoked that this little movie is included," he said. "The movie is important to me, and I would hate to offend [anyone] because that's one of my favorite things I've ever done. So I would apologize to someone who took it that way."
The commercial series also included scenes from "Back to the Future" and "Aliens."
http://tv.msn.com/the-wrap/spade-regrets-farley-ad/story/?GT1=28103
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We all know that David is right. Chris would have done it just to get Tommy Boy on TV again. Chris was pretty laid back about all that stuff.
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