Those MTV cabbie commercials.

January 14, 2007 7:36 PM

Hey, remember those MTV commercials from the mid-90s with the creepy, sweaty cabbie? Who directed those? Who starred in them?

A few months ago, a movie dork friend and I had just watched a bizarre movie and then IMDBed the man behind it. He was an obscure gentleman of few credits whose name I can no longer recall, but I remember that he had directed those MTV spots. Who was this man, or at least who was the cabbie? And no, I don't remember the movie which had inspired this question at all, sorry.

posted by Sticherbeast to media & arts (11 comments total)

The cabbie was Donal Logue, who's now in The knights of Prosperity. I don't know the rest.
posted by BigFatWhale at 7:38 PM on January 14, 2007

Donal Logue as Jimmy McBride. (youtube)
posted by TonyRobots at 7:40 PM on January 14, 2007

Awesome, thanks! Donal Logue's name led me to Google the rest of it.

Those commercials were created by Jesse Peretz, of the band The Lemonheads, and Clay Tarver of the band Chavez, who co-wrote Joy Ride and directed some of the Upright Citizens Brigade TV show.

I don't know why I had remembered Joy Ride as having been "bizarre." It's just a relatively normal, although somewhat awesome, popcorn movie. At any rate, it was notable enough for us to have IMDBed it afterwards, I guess.
posted by Sticherbeast at 7:45 PM on January 14, 2007

Heh. Yeah, his name is Donal Logue. But I even after his OK TV stints, I will always think of him as Quinn, for obvious reasons.
posted by quin at 12:13 AM on January 15, 2007

while i will always remember him as Steve
posted by BSummers at 7:39 AM on January 15, 2007

isn't it ironic, don't you think? it's like when you meet the girl of your dreams and find out she's five.

i tend to use that quote...a lot. it sums up the 90s very well for me.

(thanks for all of this btw)
posted by Stynxno at 8:27 AM on January 15, 2007

Thanks for the memories! Like, I kept seeing this ad for this great new TV show called "Sabotage". Looked like it had some great characters, like this guy named Cochese. But they never said when it was on.

(I paraphrase.)
posted by A dead Quaker at 10:57 AM on January 15, 2007

to kind of piggyback on this, does anyone remember a MTV commercial with a kind of stoner/loser outside a convenience store who said things like:

"hey go inside and buy me Tallboy"

and

"I drink milk on occasion- straight from the cow's teat."

I thought maybe it could be one of these:
http://www.viewaskew.com/mtv/vstash/index.html

featuring Jay and Silent Bob, but I don't see it there- and also I was a huge Clerks fan so I would've realized it, unless it came out before I had seen the movie.

Anybody else remember this?
posted by drjimmy11 at 11:39 AM on January 15, 2007

I think the stoner might've been Norm MacDonald, who also did similar commercials as superspy Cobalt.
posted by electroboy at 12:27 PM on January 15, 2007

I think you might be right. Even in my hazy teenaged memories I can sort of hear Norm's distinctive voice, now that you mentioned it.
posted by drjimmy11 at 2:28 PM on January 15, 2007

In case anyone cares, in the 90s, David Fincher directed those Nike spots with Dennis Hopper.
posted by Sticherbeast at 2:37 PM on January 15, 2007