American Express "My People"

It’s always fun for the audience when a bit player unexpectedly steals a show. And that’s what happens in this spot for American Express (via Ogilvy), which otherwise stars Beyonce Knowles and Ellen DeGeneres. The singer has urged the talk show host to “have your people call my people” to arrange tickets for a Beyonce show, but this proves harder for Ellen to accomplish that one might imagine. Emerging from the building that houses the set for her show, she sees an actor who’s frantically blundering around in search of the sound stage where he’s supposed to enact his own scene (as the knobbiest-kneed Roman of them all, judging by the look of him).