The essence of every beauty ad [or shaving, or beer ...] you'll ever see on TV

Since I won't be teaching next semester, this may be the last post to The Mackerel Wrapper for a while. So, for my communications students -- and anybody else who surfs into the blog -- I'm linking to a sketch on advertising from the TV show That Mitchell and Webb Look on BBC television. It will keep longer than the previous items about a spring semester final paper that was due two weeks ago now.

Credit where it's due: I got it from comedian Rollie Williams, who posted it under the headline "Every Beauty Ad Ever In 58 Seconds" to Upworthy at http://www.upworthy.com/, a social media site that's heavily critical of the fluff in media, especially the Internet, and defines its mission like this: "Hi, we're Upworthy, a new social media outfit with a mission: to help people find important content that is as fun to share as a FAIL video of some idiot surfing off his roof." .