Jax Beer w/Mike Nichols and Elaine May (Kangaroo)

[MRMcdermott]

There's a small Jax museum (or at least there was pre-Katrina) in the upper floors of the retail development that took over the old brewery. It has some commercials like this running, but claims the voices were McLean Stevenson & Elaine May. But this one at least sounds like Nichols.

[cheacky2]

Please tell me that you people know were beer comes from!!!!

[rsherrillpost]

Another great company shot to hell by dumbass grandchildren.

[boru25]

This is how I remembered cartoons!

[DBKTube]

WOW! Can't believe I found this, these were my favorite commercials as a kid. PLEASE find and post the: Talking Dog, Singing Commercial, Red Cross and, Astronaut if you can find them.

[donnaburroughs]

Oh please share more Jax beer commercials! I grew up in Oklahoma City and they were on the nightly news during the weather forecast. When they returned to the weather cast Bob Thomas would be laughing so hard he could barely speak. I still talk about a few of them as they were among the best ever.

[Malco2245]

Hmm...An anthropomorphic animal with the voice of a sophisticated business man doing nothing but small talk in the hopes of making a funny joke. Now where have I seen this before...

Oh my god. That Kangaroo is Seth McFarlene! AHHHHH!

[lakeviewviking]

@Malco2245 Jax was a New Orleans brewery; it didn't even occur to me til recently they went national...

[oakmag]

Wonderful! Grew up in NO when these were on the local stations. Blast from the past! Thank you!!

[hjshmuel]

@oakmag Blast fromthe past! Grew up around Austin, where my uncle worked for the Jax distributor for many decades. Their league bowling shirts even had the cartoon commercial characters on them - jump back Joe Camel!

[weenielongus]

Well, Mr. Cahill, you have any more Jax Beer ads you could share?!? As you can tell from some of the comments, we'd love to see them?!? Think about at, OK?!?

[ccahill77]

My father, Tom Cahill, who was the Art Director for Jax Brewery made these spots.

[Meamergr]

@ccahill77 My Dad Hal Gerhardt was Art Director on this commercial when he was with the advertising agency Doherty, Clifford, Steers & Shenfield in NY. It won Best commercial in 1961 at the 2nd American TV Commercials festival. Guess your Dad was his client! It's first air date was in July of 1960. The producer was Russell Ford; Copywriter: William Wall; Directors: Jack Zander & Chris Ishii; Designer: Armin Shaffer & Cinematographer: Al Rezak.

[Murphypaws]

I remember this particular commercial and I'd always laugh at the darn thing. Anyone remember when the customer came in and ordered 4,500 (something like that) cases of beer on ONE bag of peanuts - priceless

[dmacmurray]

Where's the one where Elaine May asks the bartender if he's making fun of her and the bartender says, "No, I'm making fun of him."  That was a classic.

[lc77k]

@dmacmurray ...funny I was telling my GF about that commercial 10 minutes ago and came looking for it on youtube...did you find it....It was very funny

[CajunGypsy]

Well, you can't say the kangaroo doesn't have a pocket to carry cash to pay for the beer...

[noy2222]

"How do I know you're not a kangaroo in a girl suit" BURNED!

Noy

[HoldenSSCommodore]

I hope this kangaroo CAN pay for his drink or else the waitress might have to call the kangaroo police on him.

[johnsonhardwood]

these are entertaining ads because you want to hear the punchlines.

[cisco2311]

I loved these as a kid and still do.