Kevin Bacon Is the New Spokesman for Eggs...Because Puns
The actor hasn't been pushing the campaign via his own accounts.
The American Egg Board wants you to start your morning off right — with eggs and a side of bacon.
Kevin Bacon.
In a new spot from Grey New York (below), the actor takes a break from hunting serial killers on The Following to lounge on a stranger’s kitchen counter, touting the health benefits of the Incredible Edible Egg. And you can take his word for it because, as he points out himself, “Nobody knows eggs better than Bacon.”
Though he spends the duration of the commercial staunchly and ironically dissuading a swooning housewife and her flabbergasted husband from making puns with his name, Bacon talked about the inevitability of the obvious bacon-and-eggs pun in a statement about his new spokesmanship:
“With a last name like Bacon, I’m the obvious choice, and I’m excited to be a part of the new Incredible Edible Egg campaign…I like the creativity behind the idea, and I’ve always been...
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