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Vince Offer, the Shamwow guy

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    • Weird, but interesting.

    In 1999, Offer released the Underground Comedy Movie to scathing reviews. The New York Post said it "may be the least amusing comedy ever made," and Lawrence Van Gelder of The New York Times described the movie as "a series of sketches built around subjects like masturbation, defecation, alienation, urination, necrophilia, voyeurism, casual brutality, and mockery of the unfortunate". He added that Offer "makes the common mistake of equating the recognition of comic potential for comedy itself. For the successful, talent bridges the gap, but, here, it is absent."
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    Brutal!

    But Vince would have his revenge.

    Offer, who funded Underground Comedy Movie with his own money, had trouble selling it. Inspired by the success of Girls Gone Wild marketing, he decided to put the trailer on an infomercial, and sold 50,000 copies direct order.
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    It gets better.

    The film also led to several lawsuits. Offer filed a copyright-infringement suit against Peter and Bobby Farrelly and Twentieth Century Fox, claiming that 14 scenes in There's Something About Mary were taken from his own film. The Farrelly brothers responded, "We've never heard of him, we've never heard of his movie, and it's all a bunch of baloney." The case was dismissed with prejudice on a motion for summary judgment by order of the court in 2000, and Twentieth Century Fox was awarded $66,336.92 in attorneys' fees. In addition, Offer sued Anna Nicole Smith for breach of contract, alleging that Smith had agreed to appear in Underground Comedy Movie but backed out, claiming it would hurt her career.

    In 2004, Offer, an ex-Scientologist, sued the Church of Scientology with the help of attorney Ford Greene. He alleged that the church had declared him a criminal and had urged its members to commit libel against him. Offer claimed that the church's actions caused him to lose a successful business, as many of his employees were Scientologists who quit upon learning of what the church did.
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    You never know with Wiki, but if half of that stuff is true...wow. Check that, shamwow! :lol:

    Vince Offer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
     
    Here's a clip from Vince's classic Underground Comedy Movie, starring Vince himself. He actually convinced 50,000 people to order this thing on DVD.

    [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQZXta68jlc]YouTube - Vince Offer as "Batman"[/ame]
     
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    Jake;1424421; said:
    Here's a clip from Vince's classic Underground Comedy Movie, starring Vince himself. He actually convinced 50,000 people to order this thing on DVD.

    YouTube - Vince Offer as "Batman"
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    I remember the commercial selling the Underground Comedy Movie would always come on comedy central

    now I am going to have to watch this thing to see how terrible it truly is
     
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    The Underground Comedy Movie is without a doubt the worst movie ever made. Brilliant infomercial style marketing is the only reason it didn't end up in some Hollywood exec's trash bin where it belonged. Thank goodness I didn't pay a dime to see it (I downloaded it from a torrent site). It is so remarkably unfunny that you will forget what funny is while watching this thing... it literally sucks the funny out of the universe while it is playing.
     
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    More from the Underground...Vince rocks! :banger:

    [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2oVWSfZ9Bk]YouTube - Vince Offer's Underground Comedy Movie - I Hate LA[/ame]
     
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