Classic Ads From Simpler Times
Welcome to a podcast hosted by unemployable fourth-rate advertising suit Steve Cooke and eminently-employable award-winning advertising creative and TV commercial director Tony Williams (no not that one - the other one).
Each week, in an attempt to transport ourselves back to a world where there was no global plague, we all had expense accounts and white dogshit was still a thing, we review a classic TV ad and try to work out whether or not it was any good. We're already attracting some great reviews...
"WTF is this shit?" - Sir John Hegarty
"I f*cking hate these people..." - Unnamed bread brand marketing director
"Why do they think my name is so funny?" - Award-winning TV commercial director Tom Kuntz
"This podcast is brilliant, I'm going to tell all my friends about it..." - Tony Williams' Mum
"I'm going to sue these dickheads..." - INSERT NAME HERE
"Everyone loves the Hovis ad, WTF is wrong with you c*nts..." - Sir Ridley Scott
"I was brilliant in that ad..." - Ray Wilkins
"Eccellente." - Colonel Dietrich from Raiders of the Lost Ark
"Both these blokes use lady-scented body wash..." - Isaiah Mustapha
"Lovely boys. I knew their parents you know. Well worth a listen." - Clarence Frank Birdseye II
"The mark 2 Ford Transit is basically exactly the same as the original 1965 version except it has square headlights. Don't edit that out you wanker." - Tony Williams
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- Update frequency
- every 4 days
- Average duration
- 37 minutes
- Episodes
- 32
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2021
Volvo Trucks - Epic Splits (feat. Jean-Claude Van Damme)
Ah yes, simpler times.
Prepare to be entertained by;
(a) An old-fashioned Old-Etonian pervert.
(b) The Queen and her bowel problems.
(c) The ad-industry giant now forced to live in a cave in the middle-e…
Hovis - Boy On a Bike
In this week’s episode we hear how a Two Ronnies parody of a bread ad wiped the memories of 1,000 people and then find out why Ken Barlow and Joanna Lumley’s love child got a pudding bowl haircut and…
Everybody hates us...but we gave Jerry Seinfeld a platform
It’s an ethical dilemma that doesn’t exist.
We get paid to make ads that sell stuff that people get paid to make so that they can go out and buy stuff that we make adverts for.
You know how it goes, an…
Sony Playstation - Double Life
Is your life mundane? Do you hate your job? Is your world full of people who aren’t happy that you drive like an Italian plumber?*
Yes?
Never mind. Watch this ad and it’ll be OK to tell the world that …
Fiat Strada - Handbuilt by robots
Is it ever OK to celebrate great advertising for shit products?
Join as we discuss the issue in our review of an ad for the brand-new Fiat Strada, a car handbuilt by robots out of tissue paper.
No voic…
Levis - Flat Eric
Life imitates art. Advertising steals art. Agency usually calls it derivative to avoid lawyer stuff. In this case French artist-man says he doesn’t care as long as he can go to Los Angeles and spunk …
John Lewis Christmas 2020 (in partnership with Short Walk and a Handshake)
We're mixing things up a bit this week and in partnership with our sister-pod looking at an ad that's actually running in the UK today and asking is it worth A Short Walk and a Handshake?
John Lewis C…
Tango - Apple Seduction
A society under the microscope, the unmasking of a perfectly British perversion…we think it’s fair to say that this is our most gripping episode to date.
Join us as we review an ad for a fizzy drink t…
Birds Eye Steakhouse Grills - Hope It's Chips
Classic Ads From Simpler Times prides itself on being of the people for the people so this week we’ve got a working-class-austerity vibe going as we look at a TV ad from 1982 for a product that looks…
Old Spice - The Man Your Man Could Smell Like
This week the cut-price time machine that is Classic Ads From SImpler Times lands us back in 2010 from where we launch into a review that encompasses feminist theory in Australian politics, a Nazi sy…
Yellow Pages - Fly Fishing by J.R.Hartley
This week’s review of a Classic Ad From Simpler Times takes us back to a land where Yellow Pages thought it was a good idea to show the proletariat how the middle classes were free to fuck about fly …
Ferrero Rocher - The Ambassador's Party
Hello and welcome to the first-ever episode of Classic Ads From Simpler Times. In our opening effort you can find out if Bill Clinton ever shagged Mrs Mangle from Neighbours and listen as we re-write…