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March 20, 2009

Is This Paul Rudd's Voice In This Mac Commercial That I'm Hearing?

Over the past week, I've gradually become convinced that Paul Rudd does the voiceover for this newish Macbook commercial. If it isn't, chalk it up to his recent um, exact-right-amount-of-media-exposure. The voice sounds a little younger and a little dorkier, but the "rs" sound so like him!:

It sounds like Paul Rudd trying to not sound like Paul Rudd, if that makes any sense. The way Jon Krasinski does in those Blackberry commercials. And it's been airing during comedies, like 30 Rock last night. And Apple has a history of hiring comedian pitchmen, of course. I sort of maybe rest my case? I've been wrong before, though (see the Bobbie From Mad Men Green M&M Disaster.)

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No, it's not Mr. Rudd, and i think your definition of "exact-right-amount-of-media-exposure" may be a bit off as well.

Posted by: meANDmy_mONKEY profile link at 03/20/09 4:51 PM  | Reply
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I think you're way off on this.

Posted by: Sam at 03/20/09 4:52 PM  | Reply
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I thought so, maybe at the beginning but became less convinced as time wore on...

Posted by: Evelyn at 03/20/09 4:56 PM  | Reply
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That's like Patrick Dempsey doing those State Farm and Mazda commercials.

I know it's you, Pat!

Posted by: Elyse at 03/20/09 4:57 PM  | Reply
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"The voice sounds a little younger and a little dorkier, but the "rs" sound so like him!:"

Lindsay, you remind me more and more of Mel from Flight of the Conchords everyday
Not that it's a bad thing.

Posted by: CarolineA profile link at 03/20/09 5:00 PM  | Reply
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Yeah, probably. I'll be so glad when this weekend is over and I can go back to normalish!

Posted by: Lindsay profile link  in reply to  CarolineA's comment at 03/20/09 5:12 PM  | Reply
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Well Billy Crudup is the Mastercard PRICELESS guy... super generic voice on that guy, but it works.

and I think you're projecting your Rudd Love onto everything, which is okay, because he could 'project his love' onto me anyday.

Posted by: Becca profile link at 03/20/09 5:05 PM  | Reply
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G'damn, Lindsay. Will you just ask Paul Rudd to take up residence inside your vagina panties, already?

Posted by: wubdub profile link at 03/20/09 5:10 PM  | Reply
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I just disabled my Paul Rudd google alert. He's smothering me!

Posted by: Lindsay profile link  in reply to  wubdub's comment at 03/20/09 5:19 PM  | Reply
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I'm just jealous is all, Lindsay. I'm tired of being the Baxter to Paul Rudd's Paul Rudd.

Posted by: wubdub profile link  in reply to  Lindsay's comment at 03/20/09 8:12 PM  | Reply
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I see what you mean, but the further on it gets the more convinced it doesn't sound like him.

Posted by: Niamh profile link at 03/20/09 5:36 PM  | Reply
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It does sound a lot like him, but I think the accent is slightly off. But I understand why you're stressing: normally I'm pretty good at ID-ing voice-over people, but the dude who does the AT&T "more bars" ads has stymied me for years.

Posted by: Tara profile link at 03/20/09 5:48 PM  | Reply
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the voice is that of the editor actually. he does all the iphone commercials as well...used his voice as a temp track once and apple loved it and now use him for all of them

Posted by: Gman at 03/20/09 7:05 PM  | Reply
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Next step: "So Paul Rudd has been sending me signals through his interviews recently, and I actually caught him asking me to meet him at his house during the battle scene in Role Models".

Posted by: .bryan. profile link at 03/21/09 1:10 AM  | Reply
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"He speaks to me with pictures, that's how we communicate. I'm gonna buy flowers and ask him to marry me"

Posted by: Ugah profile link  in reply to  .bryan.'s comment at 03/21/09 2:19 PM  | Reply
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sounds like Josh Radnor (Ted) from How I Met Your Mother.

Posted by: pedro at 03/21/09 5:45 PM  | Reply
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leaning towards michael ian black more than i am paul rudd

Posted by: Camamoto profile link at 03/22/09 1:00 PM  | Reply
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the worst unidentified celebrity voiceover is john corbett for applebee's. he says "app" instead of appetizer. ::shudder::

Posted by: hillary_b at 03/23/09 1:35 AM  | Reply
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"You wanna know why I know your gay???? Because their an app. for it and it told me"

That is rudd, Jeff bridges is the hyundai guy, stanley tucci is the ATT / cingular guy,kevin spacey is the honda guy, and a cousin of mine created this website......but what do I know??? Haha

Posted by: Frank at 03/27/09 10:33 PM  | Reply
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