How Do Ben Affleck’s Dunkin Tremendous Bowl Commercials Evaluate To Casey Affleck’s SNL Parody?

Though it may be exhausting to totally get pleasure from Casey Affleck’s performances figuring out in regards to the sexual harassment allegations aimed toward him, the sketch is full of so many sharply noticed jokes that it is unattainable to not recognize it not less than somewhat, particularly for viewers who grew up within the space it is parodying. As one of many prime feedback for the video put it, “I grew up in Massachusetts. That is much less of a parody and extra of a documentary.” The non secular sequel to this sketch (“Sam Adams,” starring one other Massachusetts native Invoice Burr) launched just a few years later in 2020, as soon as once more portraying New England guys as being sincere, loud, and charmingly fast to anger.

Ben Affleck’s industrial is much less satirical than Casey’s, in fact — it is an precise industrial, in spite of everything — nevertheless it additionally offers us an genuine have a look at common Dunkin’ clients and staff in New England. Ben filmed the industrial at an precise Dunkin Donuts in Medford, Massachusetts, and his interactions with these on a regular basis clients are actual, not less than so far as we are able to inform. They might not be throwing their coffees at different buyer’s automobiles or entering into fist fights with their buddies, however they’re nonetheless actual New Englanders. It is not as mean-spirited an outline as Casey’s pretend industrial, however all 5 of Ben’s adverts are nonetheless a delight to look at.