BRIEF TV AD SNIPPET

One of my sideline activities during the 70s, 80s and part of the 90s, was doing small acting bits in TV commercials and print ads. It was a fun way to earn extra money and I enjoyed it while it lasted.

This is a TV ad from the early 90s that someone recently taped right off the TV screen where I briefly appear donning a Jerry Lewis type haircut. The make-up girl thought I would look funnier that way! 

TO BE OR NOT TO BE!

For a while back in the 70s, 80s and 90s, apart from being a cartoonist, I pursued a career in acting with varying grades of success. For the most part, I just landed small roles in TV commercials and an extended stint performing in dinner theaters which lasted almost 20 years until the new millennium kicked in and most of them folded. There was a short period in 1985 where I made it into the cast of a TV sitcom which barely survived for one season. And, apart from brief cameo appearances in two films, my acting ambitions were reduced to doing comedy skits for a radio show which lasted, in various formats, about eleven years.
Luckily, none of those efforts are available for viewing today (except for the films), and thus, the only evidence remaining of my thespian ambitions is a pair of magazine ads where I tried to look somewhat fashionable.

                                                                                                                                                               
                     

                                                                                                                                                              

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