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Ozzy Osbourne teamed up with Samsung and Advertising Agency Leo Burnett in Chicago to produce a new Mobile Commercial. Rocker, reality TV star and master humbler Ozzy Osbourne tries to order coffee, hail a cab or talk to his shrink, he is incomprehensible, until he texts the other person with the new Samsung Propel phone.
“The guy does mumble,” says Samsung chief marketer Bill Ogle, adding he still has wide appeal. “Older folks like him because of his Black Sabbath days, but kids like him even more.”
The heavy-metal star, who was kept alive and partially preserved for the new generation of fans thanks to MTV reality show The Osbournes. Ozzy is getting ready for his next reality show on Fox. So there you are if you are a fan that is. If not this video is still quite funny.
John Michael “Ozzy” Osbourne (born 3 December 1948) career spanned four decades. He rose to the top as lead vocalist of English heavy metal band Black Sabbath, and eventually achieved a multi-platinum, award-winning solo career. In the early 2000s, his career as a celebrity was revived when he became a star in his own reality show, The Osbournes.
Credits: Advertising Agency: Leo Burnett, Chicago, USA. EVP/Group Creative Head: Bob Dreveny. SVP/Creative Director: Bob Price. SVP/Creative Director: Will Perry. Creative Director: Colin Selikow. SVP/Content Director: Mary Cheney. SVP/Account Director: Trent Buterbaugh. Account Director: Melanie McCord. Account Executive: Christina Chase. Production Company: MJZ. Director: Craig Gillespie. Executive Producer: Lisa Margulis. Producer: Line Postmyr. Editorial: The Whitehouse. Editor: Carlos Lowenstein. Media Agency: Starcom MediaVest Group
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On the Samsung Mobile Commercial….
Please tell me “What is Ozzy saying to his shrink”?
You know this is driving me nuts….What is it?
Can someone tell me the name of the actor who plays the shrink? Oddly enough, it sound like General Colin Powell. Even looks like him with a clean shaved head.
Anyone?
This commercial rocks! Ozzy is the best.
(p.s. if you don’t know what bollocks are, just google it LOL)
I have a few comments on what he’s saying after reading the unbelievable amount of interesting blogs that have popped up discussing this exact subject:
- I love how it’s being argued across the internet what he types on his phone in the coffee shop: seems split 50/50 that he either types “black coffee”. or “f**k you” LOL, I think it would be hilarious if it’s the latter
- apparently he says to the cabbie something along the lines of: “154 (or 54)? and Lex” (short for Lexington Ave which is in Hollywood), not “take me to LAX”.
- seems that his 3rd comment to his therapist (sorry, don’t know who the actor is yet), is something along the lines of “I want to shave me (my) bollocks”, which is just an expression of frustration
As a side note to all the people thinking Ozzy really slurs that bad, Ozzy has a known medical condition that causes him to slur his words (though not as bad as in this commercial), and his hands to shake, but it has nothing to do with the former “hard rock and roll life-style” he used to lead including his problems with alcoholism. And he’s exaggerating his slur in this commercial, you just have to hear him talk on anything else or in real life to know this.
This commercial is fabulous and we know Ozzy is just poking fun at himself in doing the commercial. He has a great sense of humor about himself that most people don’t seem to realize.
IMO best commercial of the year! And such a fun commercial to see especially compared to all the other idiotic commercials airing, one that comes to mind because it’s on so often is the very distasteful Subway commercial of the guy digging his own grave, now THAT’S oddly sick.
LONG LIVE OZZY!
CHEERS FROM CANADA TO ALL THE PUNTERS INCLUDING MYSELF!
(p.s. I’m not “old” (unless you consider 40 OLD!), so the part in the article above saying “older folks” like Ozzy from his Black Sabbath Days (which I do, and I still love him) is very odd, in fact kinda insulting. And my mum and dad are in their 70’s and love Ozzy as much as I do!