He Has a Hole in His Throat? I Had No Idea!
I really hate having to ask this, but is anyone else absolutely sick of seeing this guy?
Seriously, he’s everywhere! Every TV commercial break. Every subway station. Every newspaper. Every web site. Every radio station. We get the point! With a hole in his throat, he can’t do anything… he can’t swim, umpire a baseball game, or eat normally. But he can still be overexposed to millions of New Yorkers more than a two-bit Manhattan socialite.
Come on, NYC Department of Health… there have to be some other poor souls out there who are willing to shill for an anti-smoking campaign.
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May 14th, 2007 at 9:01 am
says:Okay so this guy’s robot voice still has a spanish accent so really it should be “now der ees a per-mee-nient hoel in mie troat. Life wveel neber be da same a-gein.” (or something sounding a little less like a retard.)
May 14th, 2007 at 9:58 am
says:I think this guy is totally hilarious. I just crack up everytime I see him on TV or any other medium…probably not the response New York was looking for.
May 14th, 2007 at 12:49 pm
says:I think this guy is totally hilarious. I just crack up everytime I see him on TV or any other medium…probably not the response New York was looking for.
I throw up in my mouth and continue to strengthen my vow never to smoke every time this guy comes on. The one that shows a scope heading down his hole into his lungs is particularly disturbing.
May 14th, 2007 at 1:11 pm
says:Benjamin Kabak… you obviously lack a sense of humor because a spanish dude with a whole in his throat and a latin robot voice is fucking hilarious.
May 14th, 2007 at 1:43 pm
says:I guess I’ve missed the joke then.
May 14th, 2007 at 2:14 pm
says:it’s odd, really.. i get rather grossed out, the way you did when you had to watch the “see what happens when you don’t wear your seatbelt, you become the not in the governors seat governor of new jersey” film in driver’s ed… when i was diagnosed with the big ‘c’, i ran out and bought a pack of cigarettes… i figured, at that point, what could it hurt? “the surgeon general has determined that cigarettes will cause cancer” guess what? I ALREADY HAVE IT, FUCKWAD!!
then, i remembered how blah it tastes, how expensive it is, and that maybe i was messing with the universe.
thank goodness for remission and the remote. you just flip channels, right?
May 15th, 2007 at 9:19 am
says:My usually placid NY1 watching in the morning has now been tainted by this jackass. I wish someone would finish this guy off. I’m hoping he walks by an open fire hydrant this summer and drowns. Okay, maybe that’s too extreme. Pulling those insipid commercials off the air might do the trick.
May 15th, 2007 at 1:34 pm
says:I called 311 and haven’t received my nicotine patches yet to any of the 4 mailing addresses I gave them. Perhaps they should stop running these ads until they catch up.
May 16th, 2007 at 4:43 pm
says:The commercial makes an excellent point but it absolutely makes me cringe. I’ve never smoked in my life and glad I never have. But this commercial is EVERYWHERE. I was at Shea Stadium last night for the Mets-Cubs game and there was the ad, on the ad carousel behind home plate…
May 16th, 2007 at 5:02 pm
says:not sure if you read ALL of your comments but looks like someone else reads your blog…
http://adweek.blogs.com/adfreak/2007/05/who_else_cant_s.html
dated may 16..
October 12th, 2009 at 2:10 pm
alma says:i think that people that hate to see the real results of what can happen if you smoke are just scared but they just think it wont happen to them but wait and see when it happens to your love ones then maybe you will look back and wish that you never smoked well i am 39 years old and my brother is 46 years old and guess what my brother has cancer of the mouth and he went through a very painful surgery he has a hole in his throat and a g -tube in his stomach his teeth pulled out half his teeth due to the cancer he use to smoke alot and that gave him mouth cancer. so know i had to learn to give him his food that comes in a can through a tube and i have to crush his medicines and mix it in water and put it through a syring and through the tube too . i clean around the hole in his throat too and it is very depressing to see mt brother that way because he wont be the same anymore .
March 29th, 2010 at 2:57 pm
Carroll B. Merriman says:I want to say – thank you for this!