A Few Good Creative Men

To really get the humor in these videos, you need to work in the advertising business. For those of you aspiring to, watch and learn something about how creatives feel about management, and vice versa.

First, Jack Nicholson as the overworked, misunderstood, and unappreciated creative:



Next, a terrifying suggestion: What if your copywriter taught the other people in your agency how to write? Click here to watch this shocking and tragic video.

Then, see if you can guess, by watching this video, what common complaints from clients drive creatives insane.

Finally, the classic most of you are probably not familiar with, Truth in Advertising.

This short film, which depicts what the world of advertising might be like if everyone said what they really meant, was originally produced in 2000 by Avion Films of Toronto, to be shown to a group of industry insiders at an awards banquet. It immediately became insanely popular, even outside the industry, and was widely circulated online. It's probably because it's been around so long that it's impossible to find a good quality reproduction. Here it is on YouTube, where it looks like crap but sounds okay. It's more important to listen to what they're saying than to see them clearly, anyway: