This is Stan’s son. Great post. ❤️

Yes son, once upon a time TV commercials were extremely witty 60 second masterpieces.

Ah yes, the late, great Jesse White, aka the Lonely Maytag Repairman.

Stan Freberg (RIP) was one of the greatest advertising geniuses ever! Long live Stan Freberg!

God bless the man. No wonder my father used to just HOWL over his albums...and, later, ME. ("Child's Garden of Freberg" in particular.) It just struck me that what Rod Serling was to quality TV-drama writing, Stan Freberg was to the TV ad industry. Genius, as was Ernie Kovaks! I'd bet they all knew each other.

Freberg was the greatest ad man ever! And a satirist par excellence as well. His LP "Stan Freberg Presents The United States of America" is one of the greatest comedy albums of all time. He was also a man of good character. We need more like him today.

I grew up watching those commercials. Stan Freberg was a genius.

Honestly these commercials have such a lighthearted attitude full of ironising and witty humour. I wish many more of the adverts on YT were like this.

Some of these are hilarious! I like the one where the other commercials try to butt in on the pizza roll party.

I remember that prune commercial like it was yesterday. "They're still badly wrinkled, you know..." And of course Great American Soups with Ann Miller... CLASSIC!!!!!!

RIP Arte Johnson, who was the elevator operator in the second commercial. RIP Jesse White and Stan Freberg.

I’ve made over10,000 commercials, the majority of which were funny. Just a little something I learned by paying attention to the brilliant productions of “Uncle” Stan Freberg. There was no one like him, before or since.

OMG! That is Artie Johnson at 1:14!! is it not? I thought it sounded like Him, when he kept saying "FACE THE FRONT"!

Wow--these were great commercials. They don't make them like this anymore. The encyclopedia commercial--which was made in 1990--talked about global warming and the greenhouse effect. We knew about it so long ago. It's a damn shame we didn't start to do anything about it then.

So it's 5 years after this collection of spots was posted. I go to the local food store to buy some typical items, and in the checkout line are all these candy bars. 3 Musketeers, Snickers, Milky Way, Hershey bars, a dozen others. As I don't really buy these things nor consume candy bars I paid no attention. But suddenly the thought occurred to me "what about ZAGNUT?" which was an odd candy bar that came out in the 60's; and I really didn't remember the spots, but the name just kind of speared through my awareness. Again, I thought nothing of it. Then I go to my favorite radio spot of all time, just to hear it, the Sarah Vaughan "Who listens to radio" spot. Written by Stan Freberg. Then this collection of Stan Freberg ads comes up in the sidebar. So I click on it, and right in the middle is Stan's commercial for ZAGNUT. Pretty weird!

Ann Miller dancing and touting soup. WOW.

Thanks for this post! I’m sending this to my older brother. We grew up in the 1960s with “Stan Freberg Presents The United States of America.” I still have the original LP!

These are a million times funnier than anything you see now.

Thank you, thank you! This montage really hit the spot! I remember as a kid, all of his Spoof records.

For fans of old time radio, that’s Billy Idelson, who played Rush on Vic & Sade, with Frank Nelson on the Zagnut commercial. Both OTR royalty, along with Stan Freberg. I remember that Encyclopedia Brittanica commercial. When I was in high school, I knew a kid who was an exact double of the kid on the commercial and always thought it might actually be the kid I knew. Now it turns out it was Stan Freberg’s kid.

It just isn’t Christmas if I haven’t listened to “Green Chri$tma$” at least once.

Thanks for posting. Love Stan Freberg!

...And on top of everything else, Stan did a very funny spoof of "DRAGNET" called "ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGONET". It sold a million copies. If you haven't heard it, it's on KZfaq.

I remember a slogan for Chun King from a billboard in 1962 or so. "Fried Rice in a can. Like convenient, man!" I remember from about the same time a TV commercial featuring the " Chun Kingston Trio." Met Stan in 1987. He very kindly autographed a couple of albums for me.

The second Jeno's Pizza Rolls spot is hilarious, with all the commercial parodies invading the party. They gave a nod to Olsen & Johnson in the parody of Mrs. Olson (her name was Mrs. Johnson, get it?)

freberg hated commercials....which is why he created these mini-masterpieces i dont think he gets enough credit for making ads "art" when i watched madmen, i kept waiting for them to introduce a stan freberg character and talk about a man with principles....he refused to have his radio show be sponsored by tobacco products

Like a journey through my childhood. Fantastically funny stuff.

" A Zagnut by any other name - would be a good thing.". Amazingly funny commercials!

Elevator operator, Artie Johnson who died today, July 3, 2019.

" I don't bite the hand that feeds me,I bite the hand that needs me"

Stan was amazing. These now seem like SNL skits then commercials. Lol

I Miss Stan Freberg

Stan was a genius.

I love Stan Freberg Presents The United States of America." See Ben Franklin, below. "It's pretty hard to hit a porch (with a thrown copy of The Saturday Night Post) from the back of a horse."

LOVE the classics, lol.

🎶Thankewww for all those cards and letters...🎶 - The Lemon Sisters.

Stan was a big part of my life. At age 3, I watched Beanie and Cecil where Stan was a writer, voice actor and puppeteer. In elementary school and junior high I enjoyed his comedy records. As a young adult working in broadcasting, Stan showed me how to apply humor to advertising. In middle age, as a university marketing professor, I taught students about audio theater using his famous "Stretching the Imagination" spot showing the creative aspects of radio. And as a professor, another professor and I wrote academic papers about him. I could probably say more, but Freberg fans out there might consider that a 412.

That Cynthia really knows how to throw a dinner party.

Watching this because Stan Freeberg was a GENIUS! Plus I watched Day-O on Sesame Street as a kid, and Spike Jones...

"Trust me." A genuine Frebergi Ben Franklin "You're sure it's not going to start a war or anything." Tom Jefferson "Trust me."

I remember Stan Freeburg s The United States of America parady. Me and my older brother used to quote lines from this funny video

I loved these -- especially Ann Miller in Great American Soups. I thuink it was featured in Time magazine

Boy can our commercials use Mr. Freberg these days

OooooOOOOOOoo! Like a little bit of Frank Nelson. :D

Crazy! Wonderful

I love Stan Freiburg

The only Southern gothic commercial I've ever seen. Note that as the "giblet gravy" is the principal ingredient, it can't have won a prize for "supporting role".

"I think I left the door to my mind open."

Zagnut was in my opinion the BEST candy bar ever created!

The pizza roll/Lark cigarette commercial with Moore and Silverheels is my all time favorite. I wonder how many would remember the original Lark commercial on 2022!

You've got to be kidding. Stan Freberg and Jesse White were quite different people. White was a successful comic actor, and the original Maytag laundry guy, who never had anything to do.

Jfc we did all know about global warming back when people still owned print encyclopedias. Now I’m just more depressed.

What a surprise -- Laugh-In's Arte Johnson as the elevator operator!

6:23 That Southern Gothic sendup commercial used to kill me. It was so outre.

Absolutely brilliant stuff. Just beginning to learn about Stan, myself, and this was a great 'starter pack'. ;) Never cared for that Brittanica ad, though -- even when it was new, I thought the kid was way too rude. Nice to have some great trivia to go with it, though!

I recall that Britanica commercial. I called up cause I wanted the brochure. They sent a salesman. I sent him away. I never did get the brochure.

Arte Johson as the Elevator Jocky

I think these are in chronological order, too.

9:24 Frank "YESSSS" Nelson!

With the music of Billy May!🎼🎵🎶

Recognize the smoking/frankfurter man? Looks to me like Mr. Wilson, the guard at the funny farm in the James Stewart original of Harvey.

There was a sequel to that Encyclopedia Britannica commercial that was just as good. You ought to find it.

I think that's Doodles Weaver in white sweater as homeowner in the Jacobsen lawn mower with sheep commercial. And the interviewer in suit sounds like Gary Owens, but doesn't look like Gary.

God bless Stan Freberg

R.I.P. Stan Freberg

"the so-called greenhouse effect".

Ray Bradbury pushing prunes?

Incredible.

4:34 Looks like Dave Willock, the veteran comic/character actor.

Out here in Colorado.

"Beats me..."

5:50 thats a guy that played in a ww2 show called combat

Artie j. as elevator operator

Was that Dick Peabody in the Jeno's Pizza commercial? Sure looks like him. Dick played Littlejohn in the 60's tv show... Combat!

Class assignment? For what class? I flip through advertising textbooks and never see Stan's name! It's disgusting!

1:25- Ronald Long.

What is the date of the encyclopedia advertisement?

Jeno's frozen pizza's were pretty lousy.

Elon, NC

Is it me, or is Stan Freberg the same person as Jesse White? They look and sound identical. www.imdb.com/name/nm0924964/

13:33 In 2019 long hair looks funny on a guy unless he's behind a drum kit

Bedroom

The Chun King spot is SO unintentionally racist!

These seem quite experimental. Judging by the fashion, acting and video/film technique, these look like about 1962-69. Question: were these actually used in broadcast TV?

7:22 Epic Jeno's commercial!