-- Another expat 'actor' (not Brook Hall this time) is seen hawking a popular snack food in TV ad going viral as we type!
[Source: Gimlet-eyed internet sleuth and TV couch potato Dan Bloom]
VIDEO HERE:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xfXIPJBUY8
CORPORATE LOGO LINK PHOTO HERE;
http://www.qiaqia.com.tw/intro.php
and here
http://www.qiaqia.com.tw/
Apparently, the Doppelganger Effect in Taiwan doesn't stop, and this
week, an entirely new TV commercial with a new American expat
playing the role of "Steve Jobs" has begun airing on TV screens across
Jobs-infatuated Isla Formosa. Again, no word on whether Apple
execs have seen the advert (most likely not) or if they intend to sue
for infringment of copyright and lookalike trademarkedness (most
probably
there is no lawsuit in the pipeline).
This new fake Steve Jobs comes at a sensitive time in Apple's
corporate history, and while Taiwanese are more than respectful of the
ailing
tech wizard's health and are certainly cheering for him to make a
speedy recovery, the new TV spot -- just 15 seconds long -- was made
before the resignation letter was released and planned at least two
months ago when it was shot in a Taipei studio for a local snack
company
called Vedan Enterprise Corporation in central Taiwan's bustling
''second city'' of Taichung.
The new spot is also giving away a free iPad to those who buy the junk
food snack packs and enter a drawing, Kety Chen at Vedan told
this gimlet-eyed doppelganger sleuth by phone.
While not as good a lookalike as Mr Jobs as the Brook Hall was in that
earlier TV spot for a popular tea drink (now off the air in Taiwan,
but archived for all eternity on YouTube, with over 200,000 hits and
counting), this new fake Apple CEO looks the part if one stretches
one's imagination across the seas and plants it firmly in Asian terra
firma
And yes, this new snack food advert is making waves in the
Chinese-language blogosphere and giving Jobs fans in Taiwan and around
the world another viral video to file away in the doppelganger
department. Sadly, it comes at a sad time in Jobs career, and we wish
him the best of health from here on out.
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Forget Elvis: Steve Jobs Impersonators Take Center Stage
By Nicole Martinelli
Sep. 01, 2011
It looks as if just about every expat in Asia with a black turtleneck and some specs is working as a Steve Jobs impersonator.
The video above is of another random guy in China parading around a stage as Jobs in a commercial where he hawks snacks as iPads. Or iPad snacks. Or something.
An earlier one, for a tea company, was pulled from YouTube shortly after making a splash. It also follows a Taiwan politician dressing up as Jobs for a campaign.
These are becoming so common — in Asia, at least - I hear from a pseudo-Steve Jobs spotter more frequently than I hear from my own dear mom. (I know, I know, I’ll call her later.)
He explains: “The new TV spot — just 15 seconds long — was made before the resignation letter was released and planned at least two months ago when it was shot in a Taipei studio for a local snack company called Vedan Enterprise Corporation.”
One wonders if they proliferate because the “costume” is so simple: black turtleneck, specs, jeans (with some wonky high-wasted jeans subbing for the signature Levis here) and bam! for all intents and purposes, you’re Steve Jobs.
Who is that expat in that new video here for the pumpkin seed skit? If it's not Brook Hall -- and it's not -- then who was it? Anybody know?
hey, isn't that
a fake Cher WaNG
IN that ad too, she
is CEO of HTC, no?
pumpkin seeds
the snack
is pumpkin seeds
one normal
one spicy
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