It didn't take long after the rise of TV commercials in the mid-twentieth century for comedians to take note of just how ridiculous most of those commercials were.
Doctors selling cigarettes, housewives defending their laundry detergent as if any other detergent were a threat to the American way of life - boob-tube marketing was a bottomless pit of material, and was bound to be soaked up by the sketch-comedy boom that followed shortly thereafter.
The 50 Greatest Commercial Parodies Of All Time.
(thanks Alexandra Godfrey)
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