"Funny or Die" gets owned
 

Background:
Will Ferrel put out a sarcastic hit (using a bunch over-paid actors) on the insurance companies . .. and their over-paid exec's.

Original here

"Funny or Die" has pulled all the uTube versions of their original after this parody went up...



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Owned.

Gotta love this interweb thang. :D

Here is the original...

Protect Insurance Companies PSA from FOD Team, Will Ferrell, Jon Hamm, Olivia Wilde, Thomas Lennon, Donald Faison, Linda Cardellini, Masi Oka, Ben Garant, Jordana Spiro, lauren, Drew Antzis, and chad_carter - Video

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And a parsed / critical version

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I don't understand... If an actor makes a lot of money in a competitive marketplace for talent, how does that make him/her overpaid?

It's the hypocrisy here. Will Ferrell has no business saying ANYONE is overpaid . . .esp right after that stinker movie "Land of the lost." .....and how much Will Ferrel was paid?

The bigger point is that celebrities are FAR from experts on politics. Yet they are SO freaking arrogant and self-righteous. --got owned for it this time. :D

Another point is that when taxes get jacked up for something new that some ******* politician dreamed up as a good idea, it's always the middle class that gets screwed the most because they have less room in their budget for government BS.

It's easy for a Will Ferrell to lay out a few more taxes... so easy that he and his outraged ******* buds don't even consider what it would be like to try to live on what most people in the middle class live on.

Hey, Will... would you be willing to live on... say... $75K a year and see what it feels like to have your taxes go up another 10%... in addition to your utilities and everything else going up?

Hypocrisy indeed.

I have no idea what you guys are talking about. All I am hearing is Celebrities and politics.

And this is what I have to say to that:

Matt daammooon.

Mabye there should be govenment cap on actors salaries?

n'No; Actors are too important. it's that silly healthcare system that we need to lose. . ...er, Change. (gti)

Move to PARF, please...

You must be really liking that "Change we can believe in"

...or is it the actors that you think need protecting?