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My colleague Mark Dolliver, perhaps the least weird person imaginable, christened HBO's ComedyFetish.com campaign "truly weird" over at Adweek.com. What's really weird is how genuinely amusing the spots by Venables Bell & Partners turned out, given the potential for disaster inherent in mixing elements from cut-rate cable-TV commercials, porn come-ons (it's only a pun if you think it is) and Chiller Theater-type programs. It probably works because the cues are immediately (almost subliminally) familiar to generations of comedy fans, so combining them to promote a
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