"I've Got A Reputation!" - JOHN CLEESE Compaq Commercial

[vickimec]

Well its better than pluto nash and he was in that.

[TheMichaelkirkland]

This was the 80s when did apple start?

[bryonlape]

@TheMichaelkirkland 1977.

[sgtsimpson93]

... Why the hell isn't my computer made of chicken soup and Spitfire propellers?!

[1XNitroX1]

The ironic part: I'm watching this on a Windows 7 Compaq laptop

[glamourchick21]

@1XNitroX1 Me too!



[FACP07]

XD Spitfire propellers FTW!

[samanfer1396]

These remind me of those Geico commercials.. but with more enthusiasm

[richardmaudsley77]

"most advanced"

nope.avi, compaq, amiga supremacy

[MattTheSaiyan]

I could watch these old commercials all day.

[GR8TM4N]

lol spitfire propellers :-PPPPP

[CharlieSpecs]

John cleese is great

[PrimetimeD]

Hilarious! John Cleese is so freaking funny.

[jewfy2u]

If only today's commercials were this good... -_-

[Sazinata]

I love Cleese's work!

[ta666ak666]

Now THIS is a good commercial. Not the shit we watch on TV every day now! This one's funny as hell!

[SpiderXxPirate]

I love the pompous walk at the end :P

[MichaelBradley1988]

i think of stephen fry when i see that kind of walk for some reason lmao xD

[LowStackTom]

@SpiderXxPirate well, i think it was a bit of a "silly walk", actualy. ;)

[douro20]

Compaq beat everyone else to a 386 computer; they were the most advanced desktop computers around at the time and they put Compaq at the top for many years to come.

[megamarsvin]

Yeah and since then they've become almost twice as fast and useful ;D

[Apolloswan]

Listen closely at 0:14 , he says "Compact," instead of "Compaq".

[posponey1]

I Heard that before your comment but good catch mate. Small slip of the cleese.

[Hugo2608]

He didn't say the "T" in compact but he did say Compac instead of Compaq

[Apolloswan]

Isn't Compaq pronounced "Compac" anyway?

[PinstripeShirt]

I wonder Cleese wrote/ad libbed these adverts...

[superbamse]

John Cleese makes even selling out classy, original and funny. Admirable.

[sonofthundermanadude]

Just goes to show that in 1970s computers were CR*P compared to the modern day ones, but they could write better code.

[Bmambl]

Mid 80s

[wantomek]

Point taken. With these computers you were forced to optimize your code, for it to run, just look at the sys req of practically any modern PC game (except kkreiger).

But I wouldn't dare say these computers were bad. The first 386 (as i recall, but it might have been the first 486) at its time was worth more than any later computer before multi-core computers.

[Opullal]

I love the way he walks off!

[nicegirlfromiceland]

john cleese commercials are the BEST.

he did one in iceland, 3 in the series, for KB bank.. lol.. loved them!

[whirlyfan]

lol i want one lol

[McVaio]

Me too. I love vintage computer stuff.

[Babedacus]

386 chips and 32 bits of a bus.:p

[siemens1990]

hehehehehe old.

[floppydisk35]

oh wait a sec, now i understand it properly :P anyway, did they rly make a 32 bit computer in mid 80's?!?!

[Babedacus]

"32 bits of a bus" refers to the width of the data bus, and not the word size (which was either 8 or 16 at the time).

[floppydisk35]

oh that is WAY more different! thanks man! ;)