Comcast Rejects Hub Commercial

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SAN FRANCISCO Implied nudity was too much for Bay Area Comcast and KTVU-Fox television, which refused to air a new spot from independent Hub Strategy until it was cleaned up, the agency said.

The humorous ad for Expression College for Digital Arts shows a man so frustrated by his boring, maddening office job that he flies into frenzy during a presentation, stripping down to his shorts. The last scene shows him leaving the office with a box of his possessions, naked but with his genitals blurred.

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