The dog ate my homework. Sorry, my phone battery died. Don’t be silly, of course I wanted to attend your cousin’s dog’s birthday party.
We’re all guilty of telling the odd fib from time to time. But what if telling the truth came with added perks? Like, say, a nice cold beer?
Well that’s the premise of the first in a new round of hilarious Bud Light adverts featuring actor and comedian Shane Gillis.
Airing at the end of August to mark the start of the college football season, the sketches see Gillis popping up in various settings and situations around a college campus. Gillis–who co-wrote the content with comedy partner and director John McKeever–is fresh off his acclaimed Netflix special, Beautiful Dogs and in production on Season 2 of his beloved scripted series, Tires. He is also known as co-host of the number one Patreon podcast in the world: Matt and Shane’s Secret Podcast, with Matt McCusker.
First up is ‘The Dean’s Office,’ where a nervy looking student has been summoned in front of three staff members, accused of plagiarizing his masters thesis.
However, the stern-looking Dean presents the master’s student with an enticing proposition: come clean and he’ll be given a bucket of ice-cold Bud Lights.
The offer prompts Gillis, playing a sports coach, to crack open a bottle and immediately reveal that his colleague, Professor Wilkins (played by longtime Gillis collaborator, and Tires star, Steve Gerben), has been taking karate lessons after being placed in a headlock by a saxophone-playing student.
The revelation leaves Wilkins, dressed in a knitted vest and chinos and looking like ChatGPT’s answer to ‘stuffy academic’, completely bemused.
Devastated that his secret has been exposed, he finds that it’s not so terrible after all when he’s rewarded with a beer.
The confession triggers a series of subsequent admissions, including that of another member of the faculty who just happens to be walking past the office.
He admits to using an accent when ordering takeaway pizza, to the point that his now-girlfriend of four months, who works at the restaurant, firmly believes he is British.
Gillis hands him a Bud Light and cue both cheering and bottle clinking as the Dean, and indeed the accused student, look on in total bewilderment.
The pressure builds as the choice becomes clear: confess and you get a Bud Light.
If only. Where was that option when I was in the University library at 4am, sinking my 12th espresso and trying to figure out what the hell a Harvard referencing style is?
More comedy content from Bud Light and Shane Gillis will be dropping in the coming weeks, and football fans can look forward to gameday fun on both Bud Light and Shane’s social channels throughout the college season.
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