Is Wanda Sykes Exasperated Again?
The other day I was watching a TV and I saw something I had never seen before. Typically, apple’s are the core of the message; an apple a day… Now, it is the apple that is giving the message, which is definitely new to me. This message: Eat At Applebee’s.
Fine.
My problem - besides the whole concept for the campaign - is that this message is being shrilly force fed into America by Wanda Sykes. If you do not know Wanda Sykes, here’s all you need to know, Wanda is an actress/comedian (and i use those words loosely) who is so tired of all the same crap and the same stupid people and the same silly circumstances day in and day out. Boy do those things just get her blood boiling. Back of hand to forehead, she cannot believe all that is going on around her and lets anybody around her know how she is really feeling in EVERY ROLE she has ever acted in! She does the same freaking thing every time. Why do people still hire her?
Seriously, this woman irritates me to the core of my soul. What Keanu Reeves is to restraint and unintentional poker faces, Wanda is to semi-endearing expressions of day-to-day frustration in a safe Jay Leno sort of way.
She is that “Oh she’s so crazy” comedian that stomps her feet and says the darnedest thing… I swear to God that Carlos Mencia has more charm than her. Well, okay, they both suck.
Now, the wry corporate thinkers at McCann have taken a blase idea and added the most unprovocative comedian to give voice to their campaign. I have worked hard to avoid her movies - somehow she found a way into Clerk’s 2, fuck you for that Kevin Smith - but she sneaks up on you in this commercial campaign like a wet-willy ninja, ever ready to irritate with all her ability.
Please Wanda, hurry up and make your millions and find God so you can quit this business and go on some evangelical broadcast channel so you can start telling us how to live instead of what we should eat… wait, what’s the difference?
And Applebee’s, GO AWAY!
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