David Spade has responded to negative reactions toward a DirecTV ad that features digitally-altered footage of him alongside the late Chris Farley in their 1997 film Tommy Boy. Critics have said the ad is in poor taste for re-appropriating a performance by Farley, who died after an overdose in 1997. But Spade claims the actor would have been on board. “Oh, my God if [Farley] was here, I guarantee he’d be stoked that this little movie is included,” Spade told People. “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.”
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I don’t think it is so much that the ad is offensive really. It just doesn’t quite feel right. That is a really funny point in the movie and the ad doesn’t make you want to laugh.
To me, it just makes you miss Farley and wish he was still here. I don’t think the ad is bad taste, it just doesn’t really give off the image I think Direst TV was hoping for
I agree, I didn’t think it was funny, just weird. I don’t think that is what they were going for but that’s what they got.
Can we please just drop this whole issue? What’s done is done. Aren’t there other things to be concerned with than a silly commercial?
I think people want to come to Farley’s defense because Spade calls him “tons of fun,” or whatever, in the commercial. I realize it’s supposed to be in context with the movie they starred in together, but it was a little jarring to me when I first watched it. DirecTV has done this kind of thing before. Remember the parody commercial that used clips from Poltergeist? Why was no one getting on Craig T. Nelson’s case for showing up in that one with the little girl who died.
Seems a movie came out this week featuring a recently deceased singer that is going to help fill the coffers of a number of companies and individuals. Don’t hear any complaints about that, do ya? What’s the difference?
Nothing wrong with it.
Seems a movie came out this week featuring a recently deceased singer that is going to help fill the coffers of a number of companies and individuals. Don’t hear any complaints about that, do ya? What’s the difference?