Here it is: YouTube video of THE SOUP on E! showing my school board commercial!

I think... I think... that this should be safe to post. And I not only say that in light of how the Viacom situation was eventually resolved, but also because on this one I did take extra steps to illustrate how hosting this on YouTube is fair use under the Copyright Act of 1976, and that proper citation is given.

So that bit of peskiness out of the way, and especially for benefit of those who for whatever reason haven't been able to see and laugh at this yet ('cuz I sure have :-) here is the November 9th, 2007 edition of The Soup on E! Entertainment Television featuring the first commercial that I made for my school board campaign last year...

Here's the original post about it from the night it started airing, by the way.

Thanks again to Joel McHale, the staff of The Soup and E! for a great laugh :-)

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My school board commercial being shown on THE SOUP on E!

I've just learned that the first commercial from my school board campaign last year - the "Star Wars" one - is being featured on this week's edition of the E! Entertainment Television series The Soup! I checked the airtime schedule and it looks like it'll be running throughout this next week...

Friday, Nov 9, 10:00p
Saturday, Nov 10, 12:30a
Saturday, Nov 10, 10:00a
Saturday, Nov 10, 11:30p
Sunday, Nov 11, 2:30a
Monday, Nov 12, 6:00p
Monday, Nov 12, 10:30p
Tuesday, Nov 13, 1:30a
Wednesday, Nov 14, 2:00a

I'll be checking it out later. And comment about it here. And if I can figure out some way to do it without getting hit with a copyright infringement again (E! isn't owned by Viacom too is it?) maybe I'll post the YouTube clip of it :-P Thanks to Courtney Willis for the heads-up!

EDIT 11-10-2007 1:10 a.m. EST: I just saw the show and it is hilarious! It comes in the final segment, and they even put a quick shot of me wielding the lightsaber in the bumper as they were going out from the previous segment. It features plenty of Melody Daniel's terrific voice-over, too! As for Joel McHale's commentary: it's been a very long time since I've laughed so hard :-) Great job E!!

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