Not only was Trump producing an election night infomercial — it was an infomercial for products you can't buy anymore.
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They're infomercial versions of Grimm's tales, acted out by mannequins.
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The show has become an infomercial punctuated with other infomercials.
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Meanwhile, a TV crew shoots an infomercial at Cattleman's Ranch.
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"A precampaign hourlong biographical infomercial about Carson was carried on multiple Sinclair stations, and WJLA, the Sinclair station in DC, ran an ad promoting it," Kroll writes; the infomercial, predictably, was produced by Williams.
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Moreover, Sunday's Elite Eight games will be an all-ACC infomercial.
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An accompanying infomercial underscores the commodification of both art and therapy.
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Trump's entire campaign is just one more late-night Trump infomercial.
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But we also can't turn it into, like, an A.S.P.C.A. infomercial.
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I remember seeing an infomercial of [Toronto gold buyer] Oliver The Jeweler.
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Rudy Giuliani nearly made an infomercial for a company called Fraud Guarantee.
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Unlike the 93 infomercial, this was official Sinclair news programming, not an ad.
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My immediate association for the title is like an 80s infomercial voice-over.
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"Trump's entire campaign is just one more late-night Trump infomercial," she said.
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The company announced the news via a mostly SFW infomercial-like launch video.
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And it felt like a little bit of an infomercial for both Code.
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" Trump called his campaign "the greatest infomercial in political history," Cohen said."Mr.
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Lawyer Lanny Davis this week became a virtual infomercial for a GoFundMe site.
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He speaks like a television pastor, like an infomercial for an animal charity.
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The infomercial landscape came to resemble a zombie apocalypse of the celebrity undead.
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Pirro rounded out the top five with an eight-minute pro-Trump infomercial.
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And Mr. Netanyahu tossed around campaign promises like a late-night infomercial host.
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Avocados From Mexico's infomercial-themed spot starred 80's movie sensation Molly Ringwald.
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The campaign plans to rerun the infomercial up until the state's caucuses in February.
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Donald Trump's obsession with the wall makes sense for his infomercial of a presidency.
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What these all have in common is that they were historically sold via infomercial.
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Thank you to ABC and the Democrat Party for another infomercial for President Trump!
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Titanic was, and still is the perfect infomercial for love-at-first-sight beliefs.
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So Trump turned his election night victory speech into an infomercial for Trump-branded products.
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Or, rather, the infomercial for a device that will, uh, roast you a skewered egg.
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And not to sound like an infomercial or anything, but I was truly never hungry.
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Hydrangea takes place on the set of an infomercial starring a couple and their son.
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Now, there's another exciting television opportunity that is perfect for you: full-time infomercial evangelism.
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Reporters' questions are a fig leaf to cover what amounts to an hourlong presidential infomercial.
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Check out the final product below: THELONIOUS MARTIN / INFOMERCIAL (OFFICIAL VIDEO) from RUFFMERCY on Vimeo.
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A candidate who, in fact, viewed his whole campaign as the greatest infomercial in history.
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Fox's Sean Hannity broadcast live from the rally in what was essentially a GOP infomercial.
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"The match is just an infomercial for the t-shirt," Matt texted me in May.
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We imagined what that Giuliani infomercial might've sounded like and well, just have a listen.
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The self-made multimillionaire and infomercial superstar created the MyPillow empire from scratch in 2100.
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No trays of steaks and bottled water, as in his infamous hourlong infomercial speech March 8.
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But do they have to sound so much like an infomercial when they're talking about it?
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It sounded like the voice-over of a late night infomercial—aged 11, that seemed legit.
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"Author" is thus less a documentary than an infomercial, a prelude to an attempted second act.
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Typical of its genre, this celebratory documentary balances infomercial tendencies with potent nostalgia and infectious music.
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Trump would often say this campaign was going to be the greatest infomercial in political history.
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Mr. Trump would often say, this campaign was going to be the 'greatest infomercial in political history.
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In 2014, Adult Swim published an "infomercial" called Too Many Cooks that became an instant viral hit.
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CNN host Brian Stelter called out Fox & Friends for being a "daily infomercial" for the Trump presidency.
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Intel's CEO Brian Krzanich filmed an infomercial in the White House with special guest, President Trump. pic.twitter.
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His Twitter feed is a real-time infomercial enabling him to send out whatever information he wants.
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Whatever he's doing, it's clearly working, like an infomercial about the world's worst right-wing hair product.
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"At Trump University, we teach success," Trump said in a 2005 infomercial when the program was launched.
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"Infomercial" is an abstract, cut-out collage animation that tinkers with and subverts garish vintage television advertisements.
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It's complicated as hell, and like the man said in the infomercial: isn't there a better way?
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Russia has also repeatedly used the Syrian war as a kind of infomercial for its weapons sales.
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Some ideas that are being floated around are creating infomercial-style videos for products with celebrity spokespeople.
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He has simply taken the sound-bite, infomercial-esque style of contemporary campaigning to its logical conclusion.
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Mr. Trump would often say this campaign was going to be 'the greatest infomercial in political history.
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" At the end of the infomercial, Thompson delivers the funniest quip of all with a single word: "luxury.
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That said, the Knocki's predecessor, the Clapper, is best remembered as a silly infomercial we grew up watching.
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Each box is labeled with a fake product that looks like it's straight out of an awful infomercial.
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The case featured Kevin Trudeau, the infomercial star who gained fame along with his "That's not all" pitch.
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His first infomercial, "Personal Power", appeared in 1988, and since then he has built a self-actualisation empire.
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While watching television several years ago, she spotted an infomercial promoting a program that would leave great results.
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Schumer plays the host of a fake infomercial presenting a handgun as a "special deal" available via loopholes.
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I could hire a "Friends" actor to appear in an infomercial that would air directly after an episode.
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The Rainbow Art kit infomercial had every kid begging their parents to call up and order them one.
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It's not quite the disaster you often see recreated in a tragic infomercial, but wires can be messy.
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"It's almost like an infomercial," said David J. Slenn, partner at the law firm Shumaker in Tampa, Fla.
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Trump's one hour of free primetime television, could well turn into a one-hour infomercial on Trumpian ineptitude.
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In one infomercial, she put on the old wedding veil and announced that we should "marry" our skin.
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But it also brought a bizarre invention to my 7-year-old life, through an infomercial: the Abdominizer.
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Placing it on my face I lay down on the bed listening to the television drone on an infomercial.
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It probably won't do the same for Marco Rubio, whose sad infomercial-type video endorsement made him look small.
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But the consensus from others that they will rise makes the administration's claim sound like a late-night infomercial.
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"I feel kind of like an infomercial, and I'm generally kind of uncomfortable pushing things on people," she said.
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There were fleeting moments of gratification when the infomercial aired on TV and we'd drag it out to compare.
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During the primaries, Donald Trump turned a victory speech at Mar-a-Lago into an infomercial for Trump brands.
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It sounds like a dubious exercise regimen promoted on a late-night infomercial, but there is actual science behind it.
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" In a statement to CNBC on Friday, Herbalife blasted "Betting on Zero" as an "infomercial for Bill Ackman's failing portfolio.
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Like an old woman throwing the last of her savings at QVC every night, I live for gimmicky, infomercial products.
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After his first infomercial aired in 2011, Lindell's Minnesota-based company grew from 5 employees to 500 in 40 days.
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Part sermon, part infomercial, the daily shows are similar to his pre-conviction programming, albeit with a modern, millennial twist.
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"In a decade with much talk about dysfunction, the world of the infomercial is mesmerizingly functional, even multifunctional," he surmised.
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In a staggering infomercial-like performance during the news conference, he touted the claims of Doral to host the summit.
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It is the kind of thing that, if seen on a television infomercial, might be skipped without a second thought.
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The disclaimer notwithstanding, The Goop Lab still feels like a sunny, unfocused infomercial that's resolutely pretending not to be one.
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Although the series can sometimes feel like an infomercial, it exposes the hardships, doubts and failures behind this business unit.
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In his announcement, the president struggled to obscure his failure with yet another rambling infomercial about the glory of walls.
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The infomercial describes the urn as a "conversation prophylactic," with blowing ashes providing a safe 50-foot radius from annoying men.
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"This entire trial is an infomercial and effort to place Mr. Musk and the company in a negative light," he said.
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The pitch, with its infomercial-y copy and stock photo couple, can be read as painfully wholesome or brilliantly self-aware.
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To celebrate the release of the Frork, the Golden Arches crafted an infomercial-inspired promo featuring none other than Anthony Sullivan.
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In this satirical infomercial, the comedian and actress Niecy Nash plays the inventor of a new hotline, 1-844-WYT-FEAR.
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The video the trio shot led to a deal with an Ohio-based infomercial company to create a Zumba workout DVD.
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It was Arthur Sackler, a psychiatrist and pharmaceutical marketing guru who helped pioneer the infomercial, who started the family business dynasty.
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They brought back their barely used Abdominizer, a symbol of a life where they could make purchases inspired by an infomercial.
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Instead, he fooled the three major cable news networks into airing a 20-minute infomercial about his hotel and his candidacy.
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Most were delivered in an infomercial-esque, "not paid actors" kind of way that made me more than a little dubious.
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We had people asking us what a salad glove is, and then we had an answer for them with that badass infomercial.
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The tone is reminiscent of a late-night infomercial, acknowledging a shared difficulty alongside the promise of a secret to overcoming it.
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The March 2011 installment "Brother, Can You Spare A Trillion?" featured Ingoglia railing about the national debt like it was an infomercial.
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We should play to our strengths, which do not include concocting clever tax deals fit for a light-night cable TV infomercial.
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She also overindulged in cigarettes and alcohol, she added — until, of all things, a TV infomercial prompted her to change her life.
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And CNN told me it would think twice before giving full coverage to a Trump news conference that devolves into an infomercial.
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Babatunde Akinboboye, for example, gave a secure rendition of the Toreador's Song while dressed as an infomercial host demonstrating hair-care products.
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And without breathless infomercial gurus like Tom Vu, Chris Farley's bellowing motivational speaker bit on "Saturday Night Live" would have been unimaginable.
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The job takes two days, a cherry picker and a vacuum, and the results resemble before-and-after images from an infomercial.
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You'll also notice a decent peppering of infomercial-like pieces to camera featuring people claiming that certain experimental therapies changed their lives.
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At times, the tour resembled a protracted television infomercial with the leaders gripping hand-held microphones to ask exhibitors about their products.
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At the risk of sounding like an infomercial: After just two weeks of using iNaturalist, I really was able to notice more.
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In the middle of one infomercial, I was forced to confront the sheer enormity of bullets through a half-hour of close-ups.
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At one point during his soliloquy, I thought our baby had sat on the remote and changed it to a real estate infomercial.
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Click here to view original GIFImpressed by late-night infomercial ads for blenders that can hack and slash through ice, nuts, and rocks?
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Despite that brief clip playing out like a bad late-night infomercial, analog keyboard for playing games makes an incredible amount of sense.
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If you had a nickel for every time someone called a party's convention an "infomercial," you could pay for a very large wall.
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The infomercial-style of hawking products is probably familiar to late-night-TV watchers, but it's jarring to watch from your work computer.
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However, its far from clear whether the infomercial will help make up the gap between Delaney and the frontrunners in fundraising and support.
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Rather, the slickly produced programs on the Scientology channel resemble something in between a self-help seminar, an infomercial, and a drug commercial.
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The modern major party convention has traditionally been a days-long, somewhat bland infomercial for the party's brand, ideas, platforms, and major figures.
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In the late 1980s he acted as pitchman in an infomercial for the Helsinki Formula, which claimed to be a cure for baldness.
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The stark reality spawned a humorous, if also dark, infomercial about the sky-high cost of goods in Nunavut, one of Canada's territories.
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Her spinoff Bethenny Ever After wasn't just an infomercial about the booming success of Skinnygirl or her happiness about the birth of her daughter.
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Bill Clinton, it was awkward: The infomercial format was soon scrapped, and since 1987, every response has featured just one or two elected officials.
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The burger giant is touting its Frork, basically a fork with French fries as the prongs, in a mock infomercial featuring pitchman Anthony Sullivan.
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And what better way to sell a retro package like that than with an infomercial that looks like it's ripped straight out of 1996?
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A presidential campaign always contends with incoming fire, but it is also designed to serve as an infomercial to present a candidate's best attributes.
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His campaign is set to buy airtime for a 30-minute infomercial that will broadcast across the state, the Des Moines Register first reported.
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It's hard for me to look at the Bose Home Speaker without thinking about the iconic Bose Wave Radio of early 1990s infomercial fame.
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Duc is still begging for his dad's approval, proclaiming his celibacy and courting potential clients with all the disingenuous bravado of an infomercial pitchman.
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The models in the infomercial used it effortlessly, "abdominizing" their way to a flat stomach by doing sit-ups with the contraption for support.
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You'd flip to it, and carefully scan the scrolling grid of boxes, usually located underneath an obnoxious infomercial, to see what was on and where.
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Washington (CNN)Hillary Clinton's campaign is escalating its attacks against Trump University, releasing a fake infomercial mocking Donald Trump's controversial business venture as a scam.
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They're almost all white collar, urban dwellers reacting to him the same way they probably do to an infomercial for a kitschy home improvement product.
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So Attach smooths this transition by letting customers swipe up and land on an entertaining and catchy infomercial for the product they want to buy.
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The best-selling author and infomercial star claimed the press release itself was false and misleading, and that the FTC violated his First Amendment rights.
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Intentionally lo-fi in nature, it constantly oscillates between infomercial-style pitches seen on Adult Swim and community bulletin-style text screens of Weird Twitter.
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The surgical-grade stainless steel blade is said to pull out 30% more juice than other juicers (at least, that's what the cheesy infomercial says).
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The opening narration is a perfect balance of violence and irony: "Sharon attracted violent men," Condit begins, in the affectless voice of an infomercial announcer.
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I kept daubing on more sauce—its bright color suggested a starring role in a stain-removal infomercial—which may have been exactly the point.
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Now you can find the longtime Republican standing before a wall-size photo of the Capitol, making an online infomercial pitch for the cannabis industry.
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"When you watch Congressman Higgins' disgraceful infomercial, you hear him use all sorts of euphemisms for those murdered at Auschwitz by the Nazis," Goldstein said.
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The entire thing is crass and the trailer has a hokey quality that feels a bit like the sizzle reel of a basic cable infomercial.
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But when it comes to rolling out dough for cookies and crusts, it looks like I&aposm auditioning for the "before" parts in an infomercial.
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In early marketing materials, DoorBot was awkwardly portrayed as both a disruptive Silicon Valley product and something that could easily be sold in an infomercial.
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But in recent decades, they have evolved into polished, meticulously scripted events whose main purpose is to serve as an extended infomercial on prime-time television.
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The infomercial is set to air on Sunday between 10:30am and 4:30pm in Des Moines and other cities across the state, the Register reported.
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Maybe this hasn't come through on NBC's tape-delayed infomercial of an exclusive broadcast, but the 2016 Summer Games aren't going over too hot in Brazil.
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Donald Trump's victory speech on Tuesday for Michigan and Mississippi devolved into a bizarre infomercial about former and current Trump products that Mitt Romney had insulted.
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Jonathan Van Ness from "Queer Eye" (a self-proclaimed Pop-Tarts fan) stars in an infomercial-themed spot for a pretzel version of the toaster pastry.
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A class-action lawsuit filed by more than 200 women against the company and its infomercial producer Guthy-Renker was settled last year for $26.3 million.
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In a third infomercial ad, Richards shows off the innovative SKIMS One-Leg Solution Short, made especially for dresses or skirts that have a high slit.
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My understanding is that the majority of people were absolutely TIREDT of content related to the drawn out infomercial for their collab and Shane's merch line.
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Scaramucci, whose sculpted jaw, hair and form-fitting suit give the impression of an infomercial host, had been having trouble landing a top White House job.
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The product functions as a electric toothbrush, but has a nozzle in the middle that acts as a water flosser (please enjoy its deliciously campy infomercial here).
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The ad resembles an amateur splicing of deleted scenes from the Twilight films, a classic, embarrassing infomercial, a class project, and an extremely low-budget campaign commercial.
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At other points, his digitized nineties-baby nostalgia, rather than warm and fuzzy, feels distant and processed, with the unsettling emotional remoteness of a late-night infomercial.
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The infomercial, a parody of those over-the-top Oxiclean ads, claimed that the BAT would make "disposable income disappear" through its tax on items like clothing.
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To anyone who will listen, they will disclaim him as a fluke—a skilled entertainer who ran an infomercial-like campaign and swindled Republicans into supporting him.
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Even though its launch was in the middle of the 2008 financial crisis, the infomercial-advertised Snuggie prompted millions of Americans to pull out their credit cards.
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Then, sensing opportunity in the public's economic anxiety, Mr. Trump remade himself yet again, this time as a sort of walking infomercial for get-rich-quick schemes.
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They exist for two activities: lounging and exercising — two activities that you used to be able to do without looking like a model in a P303X infomercial.
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The infomercial — that mind-numbing, long-form television commercial in which washed-up celebrities hawked juicers or fitness machines — had been around in some form for years.
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This was in large part because the company invests heavily in online retailing and focuses on impulse purchases and infomercial-style television advertising that drive customer loyalty.
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Brinkley's morning routine includes hot water with lemon and a bit of cayenne, followed by a workout — usually on the infomercial workout machine she's promoted for several years.
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So to prevent yourself from looking like an actor in a bad infomercial, we compiled a list of fun-looking drink holders than will hold your beverage afloat.
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Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland's most cited opinion in his more than two decades on the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit involved an infomercial star.
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BUY NOW Tokyo Smoke Abscent Smell Proof Pocket Bag, $2250 As far as we've come with marijuana merch, we're not yet in the era of the indica infomercial.
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It has become mainstream in recent years, thanks to TV shows like "Botched" and "Extreme Makeover," as well as infomercial ads promoting the latest age-defying cosmetic products.
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"Facebook created the world's greatest infomercial," says Roger McNamee, a founder of Elevation Partners, who invested early in Facebook but has since become critical of the company's influence.
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One of Trump's primary election victory speeches in March, held at Mar-a-Lago, was widely lampooned as an infomercial for Trump-branded steaks, water, magazines and wine.
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Sometimes it links to a 40-minute long infomercial starring Dr. Pedre, which does not allow users to rewind or skip ahead, but only to play or pause.
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"People are really stressed out right now, but my techniques can help them navigate their life experiences more effectively and more happily," Francisco says, slipping casually into infomercial mode.
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It was like an ad or infomercial trying to persuade people set on running for office but somehow undecided on what party to run under to pick the Republicans.
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Now it seems Spicey's concocted a new plan to make it back onto the small screen: starting a TV talk show that sounds about as exciting as an infomercial.
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You've been scrubbing it, cleansing with toner, and diligently applying the acne-fighting super lotion you bought off an infomercial when you were high at 3 AM last month.
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The presentation from the American Chemistry Council at the meeting "kind of came across as an infomercial for the great new ways they are using these chemicals," he said.
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CNN has played the commercials for it on a constant loop with the type of high production values of a political commercial and the endless repetition of an infomercial.
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Trump aides want the four-day convention to be a smooth-running infomercial for the president's reelection devoid of the chaos and infighting that defined the party's 2016 confab.
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President-elect Donald J. Trump's transition update is grabbing attention for how it was delivered on Monday: an infomercial-style YouTube video laying out his goals for creating jobs.
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Mr. Trump did not run for president to make the country great, according to Mr. Cohen, instead calling his campaign the "greatest infomercial in political history" for his business.
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D'Souza appeared in an infomercial for his friend Bruce Schooley's invention, the Fliptree: a pre-lit, multi-component artificial Christmas tree designed to be easy to move and store.
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And if that doesn't convince you (we promise, this isn't an infomercial), the brand's site displays the dresses on a variety of women to show how versatile they really are.
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What everyone conveniently forgets to mention about losing a not-insignificant amount of weight is that your body doesn't usually end up looking like a magically-airbrushed infomercial "after" photo.
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The Tape Selector Ah, the perennial frustration of physical media when you are a deeply unorganized person such as myself—perfectly captured in an over-the-top infomercial "before" shot.
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"In my first [RuPaul's Drag Race] audition tape, it looks like I'm selling vacuum cleaners in an infomercial that no one is going to watch at 3 AM," she said.
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Pieces retail for a steal (just $19.99!), will make your pet feel "more regal" and prompt a lot more smizing to occur (but the infomercial explains it all in full!).
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There was a series of infomercial-like videos to seed interest in "Alpha's Bet," an epic movie that he hoped would finally resolve the narrative arc of his extended universe.
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Of course, Trump's infomercial for his Turnberry golf course is far from the only time he has used taxpayer-funded trips and official presidential press conferences to publicize his properties.
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In 272, when Walt Whitman sat down to write a manifesto on healthy living, he came up with advice that might not seem out of place in an infomercial today.
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The company framed it as a "pay-for-play" scheme while distancing itself from payola accusations, leading the New York Times to compare the move to paying for an infomercial.
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Neil Patrick Harris and Laura Dern are particular standouts as shills for Leisureland Estates, in a marvelously spry, wry scene that mimics an infomercial combined with a hotel room sales seminar.
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Donald Trump's election night Tuesday culminated in one of the strangest victory speeches in American political history: an infomercial, carried live by the three major cable networks, for Trump-brand products.
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However, those serious projects aren't the thing that we'll see from him, and the latest video is a good example of what else they have up their sleeves: a twisted infomercial.
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We know, we know, it's weird and seems like the kind of thing your aunt might buy from an infomercial, but take it from us: This product is so worth it.
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In true infomercial style, the ad features a toll-free number that gives callers a chance to get a free Frork or a coupon for a free Signature Crafted Recipes sandwich.
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He clearly didn't take the event seriously: The press conference announcing the supposed reversal was a 30-minute infomercial for Trump's new hotel and his strengths as a commander in chief.
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This month, operatives for Donald J. Trump and Hillary Clinton have said they will try to mold each of their conventions into something of an infomercial for each of their candidates.
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" In an HBO special last week that played like a 218-minute infomercial for the match, Woods said one of his objectives was "getting the next generation interested in the game.
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Not surprisingly, the category is rapidly expanding, most recently with muscle-building treatments that sound like something out of a late-night infomercial, in that they promise toning with zero exercise.
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Not just any blender, mind you, but the blender responsible for the advent (so Christmassy!) of the American infomercial, an art form conceived by Vitamix founder Papa Bernard back in 1949.
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Chuck Todd: Fox, Fox, I'm watching Fox Thursday night football and they did this ridiculous three-minute infomercial on Portal with Howie Long and Terry Bradshaw and they thought it was funny.
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Cult fave Neill Blomkamp has given us several shorts recently through his new studio Oats: the Sigourney Weaver-helmed alien sci-fi Rakka, a twisted infomercial, and a paranormal Vietnam film, Firebase.
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Zuckerberg's disaster infomercial was meant to showcase the (highly dubious) cliché that VR could make us feel deeper empathy for the destroyed nation (for which Facebook did raise millions in disaster relief).
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In an infomercial published July 27 on YouTube that lists Jakle and fellow Barden Bella Brittany Snow as two of its users, Rodgers explains why both celebrities and athletes use the product.
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You or your loved one can make a reservation by calling 407-WDW-DINE (anyone else having infomercial flashbacks?) Maybe you'll even get friendly enough to be invited to a royal wedding
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His first outing was a five-minute commercial for a nonstick skillet, broadcast live that year on Canadian TV. It was an early instance of what would now be called an infomercial.
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On a literal level, Mr. Trump's prime-time infomercial was a rebuttal to, and a taunt at, Mitt Romney, who, in a broadside last Thursday, had painted him as a business failure.
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However, despite being back on both TV and his bullshit, it's apparent that Bakker 245 is a husk of his former self, reduced to little more than a Rapture-themed infomercial salesman.
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From there, "Vice" morphs from an occasionally amusing comedy into an anti-Republican infomercial that lays the rise of ISIS, the recent U.S. mass shootings and California wildfires squarely at the GOP's feet.
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By the time Trump attacked Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who is hearing one of the lawsuits against Trump's infomercial disguised as a university, the Republican leadership had long since painted itself into a corner.
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If you're like me and keep fumbling and bumbling drinks while trying to handle your phone in one hand like a ridiculously inept infomercial actor, boy does PopSockets have the product for you.
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Jeff Feuerzeig's film, which tries to unravel the hoax, is "less a documentary than an infomercial, a prelude to an attempted second act" for Ms. Albert, A. O. Scott wrote in The Times.
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So the work didn't get done, and as a result the four-day infomercial that is the RNC will likely boost his candidacy less than it would have if it were more competently organized.
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By the early 22018s, Robbins' business empire was flourishing: He had sold millions of self-help tapes and books, become a TV infomercial star, and was attracting audiences of thousands all over the world.
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"Trump's entire campaign is just one more late-night Trump infomercial: 'Hand over your money, your jobs, your children's future, and The Great Trump Hot Air Machine will reveal all the answers,' " she said.
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Chip tech giant Intel held a press conference with Donald Trump Wednesday, but instead of just the usual photo op and quick announcement about jobs and innovation, this meeting awkwardly veered into infomercial territory.
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Save for a few hot-ticket gifts — like the spa voucher worth a whopping $8,850 — the majority of the beauty offerings resemble the kind you'd stumble across late at night during an infomercial marathon.
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Trump, playing the role of a pitchman, used his trip to Scotland as an infomercial to help his financially ailing Trump Turnberry golf course, which has lost millions since Trump bought it in 2014.
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He talks with boot-stomping bluster about fighting jihad, pulling apart the European Union, and generation-defining infrastructure projects, but it's a lie, a myth, an infomercial scam, uprising at a low-low price.
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Last month, when Naomi Osaka took the court in front of a home crowd in Tokyo for her first match since winning the U.S. Open, beIN Sports was showing an infomercial featuring Larry King.
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" Commander Riker says in the infomercial, "just as the bridge centralizes the functions necessary to control the USS Enterprise, Boole's products centralize data processing information to allow centralized control of today's complex information systems.
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"I view this as kind of a forced subsidy of an infomercial for his properties," Norman L. Eisen, the chairman of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, said in an interview on Friday.
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No, this isn't an infomercial for miracle water or some cure-all magic pill; it's all part of the growing body of science supporting the health benefits of capsaicin—the active component in hot peppers.
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They don't see your eye-roll when you catch up with a friend over coffee and you end up listening to a half-hour infomercial on all the great things happening in your friend's life.
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Carbonation device maker SodaStream has released an infomercial featuring Shahs of Sunset reality star Reza Farahan and Game of Thrones' Thor Bjornsson, for a device called the SodaSoak, which is designed to carbonate your bathtub.
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And he even convinces gun rights activist Philip Van Cleave to film an infomercial in which firearms are hidden inside stuffed animals with cutesy names like "Puppy Pistol" and "Uzicorn" so they appeal to children.
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At the time the 2006 book was published, Trump had appeared in an infomercial lauding the series and implying that its wealth and real estate tips came from or were endorsed by the businessman himself.
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Lindell, the mustachioed "MyPillow" inventor and infomercial star, is doing his part ahead of next Tuesday, hitting the road in support of conservative candidates and popping up at many a Trump rally across the country.
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With Father's Day right around the corner, we have one recipe that will make your old man happy and doesn't entail buying an infomercial knick-knack destined for that dark, dusty corner in his garage.
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"Make it Work" sounds like a fitness infomercial from the 80s, and the simmering synth riffs that run through "Pacifico" add to the feeling that you're listening to a quest for love that spans decades.
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But the company is likely to be far better resourced than many of its advertisers to work to gain that consent (via — for example — slick, feel-good 'infomercial' videos seeded in the Facebook News Feed).
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Add to that back-to-back wins as best dramatic series at the Emmys, where its record-breaking haul of 12 awards overall in 2016 turned the annual awards showcase into a prolonged infomercial for HBO.
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The show has aired a Jon Hamm–hosted infomercial for "White Be Gone," a montage arguing that prestige shows like The Sopranos inspired the alt-right, and a first-person shooter game centered around street harassment.
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There a collective "wow" when Cohen claimed that Trump had referred to his 2016 presidential campaign as "the greatest infomercial in political history," a move that would significantly up his brand and increase future revenue streams.
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The satirical infomercial posted to Twitter shows a call center taking complaints from bitter grown-ups fired up at the thought of a young girl bringing much-needed awareness to the issue of global climate change.
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Marie, a young woman living in California, was in such a dark place that she was making plans to drive her car off a cliff near her home — until she saw Tony Robbins on a television infomercial.
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His campaign, which was the first Democratic campaign when it kicked off in July 173, is set to buy airtime for a 30-minute infomercial that will broadcast across the state, the Des Moines Register first reported.
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Bakker first courts the doomsday prepper crowd with his apocalyptic prognostications, then follows up with infomercial-style segments that sell not just food buckets, but all the additional gear one could need to weather the impending rapture.
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"The cast of characters may have changed, but the second night's script was eerily like the first: a two-hour-long infomercial for President Donald J. Trump's re-election campaign," spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany said in a statement.
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" Noting that the two men in the documentary had sued the estate (so far, unsuccessfully), he added: "No discredited infomercial for a failing lawsuit against a man declared innocent in life is ever going to change that.
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His manifesto largely sounds as though it was written drunk, his campaign ad looks like a video-piracy infomercial from the late nineties, and his hair looks like a particularly intricate and beautiful example of sugar spinning.
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The first is that the president exists in a cloud of signifiers: his infomercial hand gestures, his practiced facial expressions, his broad accent and narrow diction and relentless catchphrases, to say nothing of his hair and skin.
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Dressed in dark suit and tie, Netanyahu, 69, sat at a desk, a map of the Middle East in the background, and made his appeal in a rapid and imploring cadence worthy of fast-talking, "infomercial" pitchmen.
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The Midwest MC's 25-minute album isn't exactly a departure from his usual gritty raps, but the image—like the 80s-style infomercial he released to accompany the album—suggest that Gibbs isn't taking himself too seriously.
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Thousands of party delegates and and power brokers are converging on Philadelphia this week for the Democratic National Convention, in what was supposed to be a week-long televised infomercial for the historic candidacy of Hillary Clinton.
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It was years of living in the United Arab Emirates, a hub of consumerism, that instilled in them a love for malls and advertisements, and the kinds of things that might have looked alluring in an infomercial.
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As the "birther" controversy swelled around him, he stood before a national television audience seemingly poised to address the issue that launched his political career -- and then he spent 30 minutes delivering an infomercial about his new hotel.
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In 2010, several Sinclair stations broadcast what critics called an "infomercial" funded by a Republican political action committee that made several incendiary claims against President Obama, including that he was a "socialist" who had raised money from Hamas.
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The tournament has been bankrolled by the Western Australian government's tourism body, Tourism W.A. Player appearance contracts have included clauses forbidding them from criticizing Perth, and at times the programming can feel like an infomercial for the region.
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While the term "Enterprise" was used to describe complex systems for years before 1993, everything changed when Boole & Babbage signed a two-year licensing agreement with the then-highest-rated show in syndication history to produce an infomercial.
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Our Principles PAC, a Republican group devoted to attacking Donald Trump Reach: Aired nationwide as part of a $1 million ad buy Impact: The infomercial footage of Trump talking about Trump University is the best part of this ad.
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Mueller's depiction is of a President unfit for any traditional concept of his office -- covering up, lying, dangling pardons, trampling constitutional norms and viewing his campaign as an "infomercial" for his businesses casts an indelible stain on his administration.
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When the two connected on Instagram, Martin had his Late Night Programming LP set to release in October, so he sent Murphy a copy of the album artwork which, along with the "Infomercial" title, became inspiration for the video.
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Often called the Infomercial King of late-night TV, he appeared in bits on "The Tonight Show" and "Saturday Night Live," stepped into the ring of WrestleMania, and made the rounds on TV talk shows and radio for years.
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In today's match between West Ham and Middlesbrough, the Frenchman felt himself get an edge on a defender, and like an infomercial knife through a stack of paper, once he started, he just made his way all the way through.
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The result is that this film could easily be construed as a 90-minute infomercial, obscuring its broader insights about the nature of campaigning in the social-media age, and the possibilities of turning GOP-dominated Texas into a battleground state.
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Catalano told CNBC that Simmons had done 20 different infomercials over the years, and said that was an indication of Simmons' marketing power given the fact that if a product doesn't sell after an infomercial airs, the show is yanked.
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It takes one person, the exhibition maintenance manager Trenton Duerksen, two days with a cherry picker and a vacuum, and the results resemble before-and-after images from an infomercial: a thick layer of dust juxtaposed with a clean shine.
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Turning his campaign into an infomercial for his new hotel — and, along the way, getting the Secret Service to provide security for an event meant only to boost Trump's brand and his ego — might be Trump's way of planning for his loss.
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But my full time job was being a bartender at The Abbey in L.A. I thought, "It's time to grow up...' "I saw an infomercial on T.V. for a mobile spray tanning machine and decided that I would start a mobile tanning business.
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A convention has the potential to be the ultimate ad, a four-night prime-time infomercial that can "move the needle further and faster than advertising does," Kevin Sheekey, a longtime adviser to Mr. Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York, told me.
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To close out the end of this decade, here's how the biggest fitness trends and innovations have changed the way that people work out at home: Chances are you've seen Tony Horton, personal trainer and creator of P90X, in an infomercial before.
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The predominant style of recent pop documentaries, like Lady Gaga's Five Foot Two and Beyoncé's Life Is But a Dream, essentially functions as a humanizing infomercial — a filmed Instagram feed — meant to convince us that deep down, stars are just normal people, too.
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In the infomercial, the two hosts operated the blender with ease — in minutes they had churned raw almonds into a creamy nut butter, transformed chunks of tomatoes and avocados into delicious guacamole, and precisely grated blocks of Parmesan into the perfect pasta topping.
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With his 45-minute infomercial for Trump steaks, Trump water and Trump magazines that passed for an election-night victory speech, Donald Trump defiantly hugged his business empire even tighter at a point in the cycle when most candidates would be scaling back.
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If we can whittle last week's Republican National Convention debacle down to a partisan campaign story, it is probably that: Given four full nights to produce a live pro-Trump, anti-Clinton prime-time infomercial, the Trump campaign and the GOP created a spectacle.
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Bakker has been attempting to kick his career back into motion ever since he got out of prison, and restarting PTL as some kind of online, round the clock infomercial for apocalypse survival supplies is a particularly depressing thing to watch for 24 hours.
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The show's centerpiece is an 226-minute video — part mockumentary, part fake infomercial — for Sufferhead Original, a fictional "black beer" brewed with chili peppers and named after the Fela Kuti song "Original Suffer Head" (23), which detailed Nigerian political problems that spurred mass emigration.
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This new feature, which will be used a few times for novelty effect and then quickly forgotten, calls to mind a similarly touted and likewise failed effort by Apple to squeeze an extra inkling of life out of its annual hours-long infomercial: Animoji.
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The pulsing harpsichord and haunted choir on "Hell Riders" recall the epic and audacious scores of big budget 80s cinema, while the love-weary piano and almost-saccharine harmonizing synthesizer on "Oh Yes You're There, Everyday," are equal parts infomercial and bleeding-heart ballad.
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"Unabashedly an upbeat, snazzily shot infomercial that accentuates and overdoes the positives of this well-scrubbed quintet, 'Us' still manages to capture the lads' refreshing ability to remain basically who they were while coping with life-altering changes," wrote Stephen Schaefer for The Boston Herald.
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I know the filmmakers didn't want to bore rom-com lovers with foreign affairs chat, but surely they could have written the US president to sound more convincing and less like he was being paid $10 to deliver a testimonial in a matchmaking infomercial.
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D'Souza tried to return to relevance with a 2013 infomercial for his friend's artificial Christmas tree, and just this week was retweeted by Donald Trump when he shared a Washington Post article claiming that left-wing demonstrators were the true source of violence at a Berkeley rally.
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Imagine if the next time the president uses the free press as props to hold another Trump infomercial, the press doesn't break in live and instead runs news stories about real people spotlighting how policies in Washington are impacting them on a day-to-day level.
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But border adjustment remains controversial on the right, drawing opposition from the Koch network, from Steve Forbes and, perhaps most importantly, from the nation's retailers, who produced an infomercial parody of "BAT" that ran this past week in a high-profile slot during Saturday Night Live.
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Almost a quarter-century since the Ultimate Fighting Championship began as a Gracie Jiu-Jitsu infomercial and grew into something way bigger, a sad reality remains: the average bloated, remote-flipping, Coors-drinking butt scratcher who tunes in still doesn't know a goddamn thing about grappling.
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It's Friday night at the People's Improv Theater in New York, and the comedy duo is pretending to host a terrible daytime infomercial for an even more terrible relationship-advice book—one that coaches women to disempower themselves if they ever want to earn the affection of a man.
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Mr. Stiller's production company, Red Hour, has been busy creating content for the peripheral characters in the movie, like a faux infomercial featuring Kristen Wiig's surgically enhanced designer, Alexanya Atoz, hawking her Youth Milk concoction made from desert flower cactus and distilled water from natural street puddles in Indonesia.
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After scrubbing his face clean with Proactiv, John begins his night moisturizing regimen, which also serves essentially as infomercial for his favorite line of products, Natura Bissé, a brand he "has a feeling is used mainly by people in their 60s and 70s," but one that he loves nonetheless.
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Networks were baited into covering a glorified infomercial for his Pennsylvania Avenue hotel in Washington, D.C. CNN is receiving well-earned criticism for paying four Trump defenders to routinely deny facts on air and engage in trolling, to the increasing frustration of the actual journalists employed by the channel.
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If you want to see one in action, you can check out this video (that's admittedly, kinda goofy and infomercial-ish) below: The best deal on a Tubshroom can be found right here: $17.99 for a two-pack—more than 50 percent off the usual price of $39.90.
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Schwartz promises to illuminate potential solutions to this drastic inequity but instead delivers an infomercial for a land-stewardship system in which livestock "return carbon to the soil," increasing the soil's water-retention properties and reversing climate change — or so the system's founder, the Zimbabwean farmer Allan Savory, contends.
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WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump on Monday released a two-and-a-half-minute infomercial-style video, turning to social media to deliver a direct-to-camera message in which he vowed to create jobs, renegotiate trade agreements, end restrictions on energy production and impose bans on lobbying.
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In an early scene in Unicorn Store, twentysomething Kit (Brie Larson), back at her parents' house after flunking out of art school, spends an entire day flipping through channels, watching as a vibrantly colorful unicorn cartoon fades into the greyish tones of an infomercial about how to become an adult.
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In the (slightly) more cerebral sector, there's "Superclean Commercial," which seems like an ordinary infomercial parody until the people in it keep forgetting the number they're supposed to call approximately two seconds after Day's increasingly impatient voiceover says it: It's simple, but again: That cast sells the hell out of it.
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"If the Democratic Party wants to put on a $85033 million infomercial saying, 'Hey, vote for us,' without making this the last corrupt, billionaire-nominated, voter-suppression-marred election, then we're going to crash the party," said Kai Newkirk, the director of Democracy Spring, a coalition that fights big money in politics.
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Here's what you need to know: • President-elect Donald J. Trump released an infomercial-style YouTube video in which he said his transition was going "very smoothly, efficiently and effectively" and listed priorities for his first day in office, including starting the process of withdrawing from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal.
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"If the Democratic Party wants to put on a $50 million infomercial saying, 'Hey vote for us,' without committing to make this the last corrupt, billionaire-nominated voter suppression-marred election, then we're going to crash the party," said Kai Newkirk, director of Democracy Spring, a nonpartisan activist coalition dedicated to "mass nonviolent action" against big money in politics.
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McCarthy went on to stuff an enormous stick of gum into her mouth, attack a reporter with a leaf blower, and lift her leg high into the air to show off a pair of Ivanka Trump-brand heels during an infomercial to shill for the first daughter after Nordstrom declined to pick up her Fall line.
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The most significant memory from that time is still adapting to, then absolutely loving, reruns of the Grand Old Opry and (regrettably) still being able to belt the words to comic country artist Ray Stevens' "Ahab The Arab," which played on an infomercial that seemed to run ad infinitum on every UHF channel on the dial.
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She griped frequently about the internet (the "Wild Wild West," a quip she repeated on the live stream nearly every time I tuned in), but she boasts the highest number of Twitter followers of any user and just allowed her digital audience to watch her eat, sleep and spread her new gospel on a 96-hour infomercial.
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But there are plenty of other suitable venues that the president doesn't profit from — such as Camp David in Maryland, which hosted the G7 the last time it was in the US in 2012 — and there's no denying that turning one of the world's foremost annual gatherings of leaders into a free infomercial for Trump's resort represents a major branding opportunity.
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After the cheesy tin-pot spectacle known as the Republican National Convention, which had all the charms of an infomercial directed by Leni Riefenstahl, and the long Trumpian meltdown that followed, the pollsters and pundits all seemed to sing the same tune: that the Republicans were facing a landslide defeat not seen since poor Walter Mondale was sent packing in 1984.
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But even as I mock their choices, I'm sure the way I'm lured to shiny objects — glazed pottery, a hand towel with a stuffed bear face, vintage shirts sold by French girls on Instagram — is just as inane-sounding as anyone who's bought something off an infomercial, and would seem incomprehensible to anyone viewing my browsing history a decade from now.
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He turned a brief press conference in September, where he said that President Barack Obama was born in the United States and falsely claimed Hillary Clinton had started the "birther" rumors, into a long infomercial for the Old Post Office hotel in Washington, DC. When Trump started relying on donors' money to finance his campaign, he raised the rent for the offices in Trump Tower.
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John DelaneyJohn Kevin DelaneyDelaney to take message to Iowa voters on Sunday with infomercial Bloomberg run should push Warren to the center — but won't The Hill's 12:30 Report: Impeachment fight enters new stage MORE (D-Md.) is seeking to educate Iowa voters about his 85033 presidential campaign through a half-hour informercial that will be aired on TV stations in the state on Sunday.
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At the entrance to the show, "Infomercial" (217), a 173-minute video, uses colorful motion graphics and voiceover (first in English, then Spanish) to contextualize the Paquete's history: although its economy was formalized in 217, an informal circulation of media has been around since the early 218s, a decade after the Cuban Revolution, when people began renting out paperback books and novels left behind by foreign travelers.
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Walsh blasted the Republican Party on Friday for allowing state parties to cancel the contests, calling it "undemocratic BS." Trump's reelection campaign has worked to monitor the delegate selection process ahead of the Republican National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., with the goal of making it an "infomercial" for the Trump presidency free of anti-Trump voices, according to the AP. View the discussion thread.
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Wilson notes that while the infomercial he watched spent much of its time making the case that the people in the commercial were blown away by the quality of the speakers in the Wave system, some of the time was actually spent on explaining how the speakers worked, including a part where it was explained how sound vibrations going through the Wave system's waveguide speaker technology by using a candle—an experiment replicated in this YouTube clip.
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