Norm Lewis may need a new agent

[madlibrarian]

Good grief, even Laurence Olivier hawked cameras. The list of actors who did commercials early in their careers is too long to contemplate. For all we know Norm Lewis has donated his earnings to charity. Judge not, and all that, y'know.

[Plum]

A) Why on earth do people working the jobs they probably hate assume that actors have the privilege of picking and choosing only the most fulfilling of labor? Acting is just another profession.

B) If you're that concerned about rising healthcare costs, it's an ED drug, which plenty of insurance companies don't even cover because they don't recognize ED as the kind of medical condition it's necessary to treat at their expense. Seriously, you can find way better targets to hit at than this.

[Jordan Catalano]

[PB ENT.]

Ya'll better back off Norm! He IS and always will be a hot sweet
potatoe and a "fine gentleman", if I may say.

[Jon]

A couple of years ago, Greg Jbara had a commercial for The Olive Garden running simultaneously with one in which he claimed to have high blood pressure AND high cholesterol.

I wonder if there was a connection...

[Gothampc]

Mandy Patinkin convinced me to ask my doctor about Crestor. My doctor said I shouldn't take medical advice from someone who is so manic in his singing.
Link

[JoeKv99]

Bob Dole was the first pitch man for Viagara and everyone knows Bob Dole's never had problems with the basement plumbing.

[goldenboy]

And lets not forget June Allyson for Depends
or Martha Raye for Polident
or Ethel Merman for Vel dishwashing liquid.
Video on U tube.

[JoeKv99]

I've tried to forget Ann Miller for Campbell's soup but I can't. No matter how much therapy, I can't.

[RUkiddingme]

Back to the point of the original post ...

I DO believe June Allison wet her pants. I DO believe Martha Raye had false teeth.

But Norm Lewis is not convincing as an impotent man!

[Jordan Catalano]

So you're saying he's a bad actor?

[AC126748]

June Allyson didn't say she used adult diapers in the original Depend ads. But like others have said, an ad is an ad. I doubt Norm Lewis is losing any sleep worrying about how people think he has ED

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Erectile dysfunction meds aren't generally covered by insurance, so these commercials shouldn't affect the cost of health care at all.

[Kad]

"Back to the point of the original post ..."

You can't go back to something that didn't exist.

[emilyfaye48]

So, is anyone going to post a link to Norm's commercial?? or....

[ratherbewhaling]

reminds me of Julia Murney talking about doing voice overs including one for a porn channel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dQj9U1DbqI

[BroomstickBoy]

Greg Jbara's done Olive Garden commercials, Max Von Essen has done Walmart commercials, La Murney does voice-overs for embarrassing hygiene products, Susan Egan's done Kmart voice-overs...

Money is money. I remember seeing Faith Prince in a god-awful eye-glasses commercial, looking like Dame Edna with better make-up back in the 90's.

Actors need constant work. Plus those Spice Channel voice-overs bought Murney her TV and furnished her apartment. There you go.

[YouAndMePal]

Any other actors think he might have taken the job to get a good laugh at the same time as get some moolah in the bank?

[broadwayjim42]

I saw the commercial during the news tonight and laughed my ass off. Part at the sight of him and part because the title of the thread (which I saw last night but didn't open)finally made sense.

It's a job and a paycheck. Nuff said.

[TheatreFan4]

You're only ever one commercial character away from never having to work for money again. Then you can do what you really love to do. Theatre.

You think Flo is hurting for anything? How about that the guy who played Santa in that M&Ms commercial that's been crammed down our throats every single year for 16 years. You never know what's going to be the big one.

Then a pharmaceutical company spending 40% of their budget on advertising pays actors tens of thousands of dollars on unnecessary commercials. (Is there ANYONE out there who needs a TV ad to know there are little blue pills available if they need them?)

Yes! PLENTY! How do you think Viagara became a thing? On the street? BWAHAHAHAHA!

These expenses then raise the cost of the drugs which gets spread across all the company's products which keeps health care costs rising as a rate faster than most people can afford,

No, they don't raise them. The execs raise them BECAUSE THEY CAN. They're not competing with anyone and until somebody comes out with a generic. Until that happens, they're the monopoly.

Then following the next performance, actors have to continue to ask people to donate more money to pay for more health care costs.

Yes, when Norm is asking at the end of a performance to donate to BCEFA, that is of your OWN FRUITION, he really means so struggling HIV patients can get their boner pills so they can go get WORSE HIV and not get their medications so they may live a bit longer.

Honestly, do you read before you hit submit because honestly this sounds like the ramblings of an uniformed idiot.

[Brian07663NJ]

I've never read ads posted looking for actors for any show or commercial...so do the ads say:

One handsome manly actor WITH erectile disfunction who must bring proof from his doctor.

Come on! It is a job. Give Norm a beak. I saw the ad. I recognized him but highly doubt most people outside the Broadway community will make the connection of him being a Broadway actor and the guy in the E.D. ad.

For full disclosure I hope that Norm ads this to his Playbill bio. (kidding)

btw - I love Norm!

[Playbilly]

Get over it. All the men in those commericals are hot, with women usually 10 years younger than them. Norm fits the bill. Good for Norm. Allows him to get some $$$ and not have to do a show like SCANDALOUS ala Mr. Hearn.

[castlestreet]

I was at the final home game of the NY Giants this past Sunday and he sang the National Anthem - been to a lot of games and his was by far the best I've ever heard it sung there!