AUDIO: Ad agency Modernista, let Mel Blanc ease your sufferin' succotash

Published Oct 12 2009, 02:11 PM by Shaula Clark

Oof, tough luck, Modernista -- getting dumped by Cadillac must hurt like hell. While you're wallowing in post-breakup misery, ruminating on the fickle nature of the ad biz, perhaps this 1966 speech by voice artist extraordinaire Mel Blanc, entitled "Mel Blanc Takes A Humorous Look At Commercials: Past, Present and Future (Who The Hell Is Mel Blanc?)," will cheer you up. (Thanks to the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive for unearthing this odd little gem.)

LISTEN: Who The Hell Is Mel Blanc? (Mel Blanc Associates/1966) [audio file, via ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive]

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