Historically Funny Links
The Web Version of Advertising Age's "Advertising Century" Report. Follow the link to "The Top 100 Campaigns."
Newbro's Herpicide. Check out this page devoted to a short history of an early funny advertiser.
"A Buck Well Spent." Read about this groundbreaking funny ad at Snopes.com and then read about the man who wrote it, Elliott White Springs, at this link.
The Advertising Artwork of Dr. Seuss. Did you know Dr. Seuss was a successful advertising artist, years before Horton ever heard a Who? Have a look.
Ben Crane's The Trade Card Place. Before radio and TV took over the job of delivering ads, businesses used trade cards. Many of them, of course, were based on humor.
Uniquely Funny Ad Links
What if your new car came with a monkey in the trunk? It may not be all that relevant, but the Trunkmonkey campaign has taken on a life of its own--and there's no question it's funny.
Here's a site where you can see most of the best TV spots from the award-winning Citi Identity Theft Solutions campaign.
If you haven't seen Reebok's Linebacker Terry Tate campaign, I'm doing you a huge favor with this link.
There simply are no words to describe Kimberly-Clark's site called Aliendroppings.com. You should know, they make bathroom tissue dispensers.
The Yard Fitness spots are all over the Web, and you can read more about them in the book. See the spot titled "Coverage" and you'll know why.
Offensively Funny Links
Take a look at this collection of offensively funny ads. The links (a little hard to see) are at the bottom of each paragraph.
Wow! A whole book devoted to offensive ads. What a great idea! Many of the sample ads were clearly intended to be funny.
Read this article about Just for Feet's 1999 Super Bowl fiasco. We talk about this one in my classes.
Super Bowlishly Funny Links
This Adland site is probably the most comprehensive collection of Super Bowl TV spots, although there aren't any video files.
There are lots of collections of actual Super Bowl spots on the Web. SUPERBOWL-ADS.COM is the best.
Famously Funny Ad Agencies (in progress)
Cliff Freeman & Partners has done some great funny advertising. The Budget and Mike's Hard Lemonade campaigns are classic. Click on the Our Work link.
How can you not admire an ad agency whose employees sign their emails "We Are Fallon"? I wrote about their phenomenally successful Holiday Inn Express campaign in the book.
Funny and General Advertising Archives
The TBS veryfunnyads.com site is probably the best collection of funny ads from all over the world.
Want to see funny ads from the UK? They're at adwatch.tv.
An unbelievable collection of classic TV commercials at RoadOde.com.
Great collection of magazine ads at Magazine-Ads.com.
A collection of ads from comic books. The classics are worth a visit all by themselves.
Advertising from the perspective of the LGBT Community at the Commercial Closet.
Check out the Tick Tock Toys Archives and Galleries at The Imaginary World Web site--animated TV spots, advertising trade characters and much more.
A good archive of TV spots at AdvertisementAve.com.
If you're interested in old print ads, you can't beat the collection at the Ad*Access project.
Check out the amazing collection of ads and links at Memorable Advertisements, Commercials WWW Database (ignore the wierd and cumbersome site name). Scroll down and click on the Funny & Humor in Ads link. Nice collection!
Another great global archive at AdsoftheWorld.com.
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