Jasper Carrott invites you to a special showing of his own favourite television commercials from around the world. We may believe that British is best when it comes to selling soap powder on the box, but Carrott's collection of commercial crackers shows that we may be missing a trick. With some weird and wonderful examples of the adman's art, Jasper discovers that every country has its own way of turning viewers into customers, and it seems that from Sydney to Stockholm, almost anything goes. So prepare for a culture shock when Jasper opens his advertising scrapbook.
Why is the dog wearing a gas mask? What are Bjorn Borg's underpants like? And who's making mad, passionate love? Find out as Jasper Carrott reviews some of the world's weirdest, wildest and most outrageous telly ads. This is Carrott's second Commercial Breakdown - the first won two awards in 1990, the City of Montreux Prize for Independent Producers at the Golden Rose Festival and the gold medal for comedy/satire at the Film and Television Festival in New York. "Again the humour is the point of communication where selling is concerned. The message seems to be 'make 'em laugh and they'll buy!' says Carrott.
Television commercials in this country may be models of taste and restraint, but fortunately for Jasper Carrott this is not the case worldwide. In the third of his anthologies of witty and weird advertisements he offers 70 newly-culled examples, including a stripper with smelly feet, a flying dog, rhino dung and Mazda's notorious Charles and Diana commercial.
Jasper Carrott returns with more spoof ads and plenty of humour in his fourth Commercial Breakdown show. In this special, he puts his own original twist on funny and outrageous television commercials from around the world. From dancing nuns to flying pigs, male centrefolds to beer adverts that persuade people not to drink beer, the commercials cover life's rich tapestry. Viewers are also treated to Russian television's first and finest adverts, plus a bracingly-honest commercial for an American divorce attorney.