William Shatner is the Heavy weight champion of advertisement today. Why do I say this? It has something to do with him being in commercials for almost everything and I see him at least once every commercial break. I cannot think of anyone today that is more advertisements. Yes there are some famous people that are in some great commercials, but none as often as Shatner. Shatner has countless numbers of Priceline commercials and my personal favorite of his the world of warcraft commercial. The Mr. T world of warcraft commercial would give Shatner’s one a run for its money but that is Mr. T’s only commercial advertisement. Besides Mr. T the next challenger for Shatner’s title is Chuck Norris. Chuck Norris is the butt end of a lot of jokes in current day American and has been for past few years. He however took to long to capitalize on making fun of himself. For example, the Mountain Dew commercial he is in where he chases down the two guys making fun of him and steals their Mountain Dew and is drinking it as he works on a youtube video of him roundhouse kicking them. I might also consider Michael Jordan a contender to his title but I really can’t do it, he needs other stars in his commercials with him such as Kevin Bacon, Larry Bird, and Cuba Gooding Jr. Some people might think of superstars of sports as heavy weight fighters of advertisement that can contend with Shatner. The Manning Brothers, Eli and Peyton, have a string of advertisements. why shouldn’t they? Back to back super bowl MVP is hard to fight off. Those commercials are mostly played on ESPN and other sports networks on TV and do not really get seen by everyone. Shatner’s commercials appear on every TV channel except for those few channels that do not have commercials. One of the most paid walking advertisements now is LeBron James. Something like a 90 million dollar contract with Nike doesn’t make me want to go buy Nikes or even his multimillion-dollar contract with sprite make me want to drink sprite. Every time I see the William Shatner world of warcraft commercial it makes me want to go play. The only one that I would rate higher then Shatner all time as the best ever would be the Taco Bell dog but he retired. I ate more tacos in the time he was in the commercials then I have in the years since he retired. All the Commercials I have mentioned can be found at www.youtube.com.

Thomas Wakerley