When fading celebrities do low-budget commercials for local car dealerships, it’s usually funny to me.
And don’t get me wrong, these ads are funny, too, but good grief, it’s Gary Busey. Gary-freaking-Busey. Oscar-nominated Gary Busey.
And I mean, sure, that nomination was a little while ago, OK, but “Scare up a Kia with Gary Busey in Houston”?!
Or “Gone to the Beach with Gary Busey,” in which Gary is terrifyingly committed to the venerable I-am-a-lunatic style of method acting:
Or this one. I have to tell you guys—when Gary Busey points at me through the screen and tells me to do something, I feel strangely compelled to go do it:
In spite of myself, I do like these ads. I like how Gary Busey straddles that too-thin line between “dad humor” and “dangerously close to strangling somebody.” Like, it isn’t the career trajectory I ever would have chosen for Gary Busey, but the ads themselves are very convincing. I mean, Kias are well designed and very modestly priced. Hmm. Excuse me, I need to go look something up.
(Via Vulture.)