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“Whassup” in Hebrew

October 14, 2006 By Jay Brooks

I’ve never been a fan of the big brewer’s television commercials, but occasionally they can be funny if you set aside the long-term damage I think the ads have done to beer’s image. Many of the ads have been popular enough to enter the public conciousness. One such ad was the Budweiser “Whassup” campaign of several years ago. Stephen Beaumont sent me this hilarious parody of the whassup ad with several rabbis yelling “shalom” excitedly to one another.

UPDATE: A friend of mine objected to this parody as vulgar, rude and stereotypical, and suggested that Stephen and I were above finding the same funny. Taken aback, I did a little research into who created this mockery and it was done by David Berenbaum, a Jewish scriptwriter for Neurotrash.com (which no longer exists). TV Adland has some additional info about the spoof. Berenbaum also wrote the Will Ferell movie Elf and Disney’s The Haunted Mansion. I’m not sure my own personal Anti-Defamation League should be picking on me for laughing at it.

Filed Under: Just For Fun Tagged With: Humor



Comments

  1. Steve Beaumont says

    October 23, 2006 at 8:20 am

    Your personal ADL should know, Jay, that this clip came to me (via Maggie) from a conservative Jew, who obviously found it funny enough to forward (and inoffensive) enough to forward to a whole bunch of people.

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