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Welcome to the second in Ad Rant's 10-part series on The Best and Worst Celebrity Ads. Last time, we looked at some of the funniest celeb ads from Japan. In Part 2, we see what happens when stars play the role they were born to play: themselves. We'll see George Clooney "act" sexy without saying...

Normally we feature ads we hate, but this one deserves a different tune. Freud first asked the question, and now Old Spice answers it with their pitch-perfect series of "manmercials." What do women want? They want a man on a horse, of course! And they want one with a bare chest, the physique of a...

Welcome to Ad Rant's 10-part series on The Best and Worst Celebrity Ads. In Part 1, we take a look at how some top stars earn millions for 30 seconds of acting as foolish as humanly possible. Where's the dignity? You see, Hollywood stars are America's royalty. They have their reputations to...

Of the hundreds of comments on my Ad Rant about the Walmart clown, half thought the TV spot was funny enough to pee their pants, and half thought the people who were lol-ing and rotfl-ing were morons and Neanderthals. You can't make people laugh at something if they don't think it's funny. But...

Walmart has been called many things, but "cool" was not among them -- until the retail giant unveiled its new clown commercial during Sunday's NFL playoffs. Since then, the clown ad has taken the Internet by storm. Last we checked, it was holding steady at No. 2 on the Viral Video Chart. If this...

Tiger Woods might not be an Accenture kind of guy anymore, but that hasn't stopped the consulting giant from taking its cue from an ad the golfer once did for them. "It's what you do next that counts," the ad declared as Tiger contemplated a ball stuck between a rock and a hard place. Now that...

The decade was awash in such truly awful commercials that we were hard pressed to choose just 10 of the best (worst) from this embarrassment of riches. Please join us now as we lose our appetite entirely for fast-food sandwiches and candy. You'll never feel comfortable again in a shower or hotel...

As the myth of Tiger Woods unravels at the speed of light, let's remember what started it all. This is not just because the billion-dollar golfer apparently slept with every cocktail waitress with collagen lips from Las Vegas to Dubai. The problem, really, is that he is a victim of his...

Fellas, if you still don't know what to give your special lady this holiday season, a pair of Public Service Announcements has a suggestion: give her a pap smear. Kinda makes one wish for a lump of coal in the stocking. #videoPlayerComponent {float:left;} "Pap smears save lives," as actor...

Evidently, men's testosterone levels have been dropping, and so have sales of khaki pants. Coincidence? Dockers thinks not. Dockers, the clothing manufacturer that once put the "casual" in casual Fridays, sees a connection-at least the kind you can use to fuel an ad campaign. They're planning to...