Several TUAW readers have written in to let us know that the UK just debuted its own "Get a Mac" adverts, starring Peep Show comedy act Mitchell and Webb as Mac and PC. After the US and Japanese offerings, these UK ads have a distinctly British feel to them. Some videos will feel familiar and are basically re-do's of the original US ads; others are brand new to the UK market. Fantastic!
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1-28-2007 @ 8:30PM
John Russell said...
The new ones are much better than the old; no doubt about that.
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1-28-2007 @ 8:32PM
Ross said...
I was one of those people. Woo!
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1-28-2007 @ 8:33PM
john russell said...
PS: The link is broken. Looks like you typed it wrong.
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1-28-2007 @ 9:23PM
Charles said...
OMG those are bad, the worst of any international versions.
"Hello, I'm a Yob. And I'm a Double-chin."
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1-28-2007 @ 9:57PM
Jonathan Allen said...
pretty lame. I really like the US versions. I don't think it was the actors so much as the content.
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1-28-2007 @ 10:03PM
David said...
Mitchell and Webb are the funniest double team ever (thats numberwang for all the cool kids who watch that Mitchell and Webb look)
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1-28-2007 @ 10:25PM
stephen p. said...
mark and jez do mac adverts! brilliant! "peep show" is one of the funniest shows ever watch it on BBC America in the the US and you'll understand why these ads are fantastic.
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1-28-2007 @ 11:11PM
Daniel said...
Why are British people so un-funny?
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1-28-2007 @ 11:25PM
LJD said...
Hey! Brittish people are funny, we're just a little... slow. Not in a mental way, but in a 'Why has it taken, what, a YEAR after the U.S. before we got any new Mac adverts?" kinda way. The way things are going, we should be getting TV shows sometime in 2008 and Feature length Movies around about, when, the 33rd Century? That sounds about right.
I think the Mitchel and Webb ads ARE good, bearing in mind that most people who are going to see them won't have seen the origional ones, so the jokes will be as old as they may seem now.
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1-28-2007 @ 11:35PM
Kevin said...
Amazingly, the PC is the friendlier of the two yet again.
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1-28-2007 @ 11:40PM
LJD said...
WON'T be as old as they seem now. Dammit.
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1-28-2007 @ 11:52PM
Matthew Sandoval said...
"tentacle" and "pie chart" = awesome.
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1-28-2007 @ 11:57PM
Quix said...
My vote would have been for Ricky Gervais (Mac) and Martin Freeman (Mac) from the original BBC The Office.
That would have been a brilliant combo.
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1-28-2007 @ 11:58PM
Silver said...
Geez, what is my problem tonight?
I meant Ricy Gervais (PC) and Martin Freeman (Mac).
Need...sleep...
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1-29-2007 @ 1:02AM
Kane said...
"Fantastic!" Hmm... is someone a Who fan?
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1-29-2007 @ 3:54AM
Damer said...
These fail in the same way the US ones do: the PC smiles more than the Mac. It's basic sales. No one likes a grump. If you smile more, people will be happier dealing with you (although not if you over-do it). People like nice people. Macs are nice. They're DAMN NICE. So why are the US and UK anthropomorphisms of a Mac sour jerks?
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1-29-2007 @ 4:01AM
Martin Sketchley said...
I think the PC guy (Mitchell) is pretty on the button, but Webb isn't so good as the Mac guy. I'd say they've tried to remove the "smugness" that was criticised by many in relation to the US ads, and the Pie Chart ad has been well tweaked to be a little more English, but I think I prefer the US ads. Webb just isn't quite *cool* enough to be Mac.
Interesting comments from Damer. I felt like the US Mac guy; I don't feel like the UK Mac guy. (But having said that, I don't smile much...)
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1-29-2007 @ 4:48AM
scott said...
"Why are British people so un-funny?"
we are still on comedy rations after the war.
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1-29-2007 @ 4:57AM
Gav said...
"Why are British people so un-funny?"
Yeah, because Britain is famous for not producing any comedy.
:|
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1-29-2007 @ 5:27AM
Looi said...
"Hi, I'm a Mac"
"And I'm one of the terribly pompous and aristocratic personal computers that are still unaccountably manufactured. We've heard of your fancy iLife software. We've all seen you using GarageBand while wearing only your underpants. It's disgusting, and we all thought you were a t***."
Hehe, Mitchell and Webb rock. :)
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