Email Q&A
How is it that someone so annoying can become so famous a spokesman / tv personality as Vince from the Shamwow commercials? He gets on my nerves and I doubt I'd ever buy the product just because of that. What gives?
Overwowed in Oklahoma
Dear Over
Our Shamwow guy sticks in your mind. Whether in a good or bad way, he has a tight hold. Might as well be an annoying little ditty, like the one for freecreditreport.com (gotcha)
He found his gimmick. A person doesn't have to be talented, good looking or special in any way these days. They simply have to have something oddball enough to get your attention and then take up residence in your brain cells, becoming unforgettable. He even comes with a gaze that strikes one both as sinister and winking at the same time. He can schpeel like no one's business and get all the extra great features out of the way, while using phrases like "linguini, martini, bikini..." and making them sound like they should be there!
He had humble beginnings as a film-maker. His creation The Underground Comedy Movie, left Vince Offer (interesting name for a salespitcher) had to find other work. For some reasons apparently beyond you and me, he's become a household name.
A drawback - they definitely aren't green (natural materials) and I notice WinkyVince doesn't mention that. From the official Shamwow site, here is the official answer to the question "what is it made of"
"ShamWow cloths are made out of a rayon sort of material which is woven in a certain way to make it feel a bit like felt when you first get it new. But once it becomes wet, it will become a soft leathery material."
About the product, I've never tried them and I know you can get the same thing packaged differently, but those don't come with Vince, that Shamwow guy. What fun would that be?
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Comments
Many people found her abrasive, but market studies showed that viewers couldn't forget her.
The insurance girl is becoming this anomoly, as well.
Rated for soaking up 10x your body weight in fluid
I think I've done that too
um, "schpeel"?
He's a white anomaly: some talented child plugged into the absurdist zeitgeist left us from the existentialists...
go for it, i say...show us the soul of the American white male, stretch it out on the airwaves, plug into our neurons, bring us hope that some children are capable of escape from the Machine...
The product is wet soft leather...throwback to...something or other...bring them archetypes up, sell em, made yr stash, live yr life...God bless the United Band Spectrum of America...
rated, Jim
Yes schpeel....I used it very deliberatly. It's a slang spelling, because frankly he too fucking annoying to be defined as one who has a good spiel.
Billy Mays on the other hand, is the guy that I'd like to punch in the face and tell him to "Just shut the fuck up and quit screaming at me!"
Vince is now hawking some onion chopper thing that looks like a real POS, but you can't live without it, you following me camera guy? So call within the next ten minutes because we can't do this all day, ya know.
The only thing new is Vince.
I see the Sham Wow company establishing the product image, then branching out in other areas of absorbency.
Shampends.....The 5 day adult diaper
The Tam-Wow...use only one per month
Set it and forget it?
Wayne, I remember seeing bits of the Furness effect on a docu in college. Yes unforgettable.
Junk, crack might be involved. I'm leaning toward speed though.
Mama - Mayes...ugh...all I have to say on that one...lol
Michael he does remind me of knoxville, come to think of it.
PJ, you need to expand that comment into a post. It cracked me up!
Trudi, he's too busy screaming at us to clean his house ;)
And the painting kid. The two infomercialers are diy people and it's not obnoxious.
I don't think I'd ever buy shamwows or anything done by Mayes.
But
Shamwow guy has a faux-hawk. I think we know how I feel about him. ;)
Can you say tooooooool!
I love the Shamwow guy. He gives me hope.