Still the world’s greatest living comedian (arguably… we’re willing to hear arguments for Louis CK), Jerry Seinfeld won a CLIO this year and, wow, did he “modest proposal” that room! His speech is pretty amazing.
• “I am excited to win this. This is the award they give you when they don’t think you can actually win one, but they think you’ve done a pretty good job and you seem to have been around for quite some time…”
• “I love advertising, because I love lying. In advertising, everything is the way you wish it was. I don’t care that it won’t be like that when I actually get the product being advertised, because in between seeing the commercial and owning the thing, I’m happy.”
• “I think spending your life trying to dupe innocent people out of hard-won earnings to buy useless, low quality, misrepresented items and services is an excellent use of your energy.”
• “I always wanted a CLIO. I don’t know much about it, but I know it’s a good award because in 1991 they screwed up this whole presentation and there were a bunch of awards left over, and all of these ad people here climbed up onto the stage to try to grab them. To me, that says this means something… It was so honest.”
(Is that true? Seriously?)
