Wassup .... True, True

I was sitting in the office today and over a cup of tea and a cookie I, for some inexplicable reason, thought about one of the greatest viral commercials to his the world – namely Budweiser’s Wassup!!!! It got me thinking, would there be anything on the net about it, or would it have been a long forgotten commercial. I remember seeing a few different types of examples from the official kings of beer but in my mind I remember something along the lines of hundreds of spoof commercial being available.

Time to check them out and see if I was right or in a drunken stupor and imagined the whole phenomena!!! Well the good news is that I hadn’t imagined it, Wassup did exist!! It was huge!!! The first video has a group of lads sitting around various houses all greeting each other in their own inimitable style – Wassup (to get the real effect imagine my toung is now sticking out as I say it!). I can’t believe this original viral video came out 9 years ago in 2000! Where has the time gone ?!

Other versions of the commercials exists, some brilliant spoofs too – including the kids and popcorn spoof on Wassup, then of course there’s always the alternative aged concern Grandma spoof too!

Anyway, much to my surprise I’ve just discovered that the same guys did a follow up video last year, a full 8 years after the original commercial aired! Yep they look older, don’t we all! But it’s as funny as ever! Barack Obama is the main recipient of this short promo video, the guys have obviously sworn allegience to the great leader and given they were barracking for Barack – they could see, like most of us that he was the only choice for President in 2009!! So here we have it, the 2008 version of Wassup ! Enjoy !