A Giant Termite Tries Stand-up Comedy in Orkin Ads, but Hilarity Does Not Ensue

When open mic night gets buggy

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Wanna watch a bug bomb?

We thought Orkin had long ago exterminated the human-size talking insects that infested its commercials. After all, the animatronic oddities haven’t appeared in ads since 2012.

Well, at least one titanic termite survived, and he’s worked up a comedy act in a new digital campaign from The Richards Group. Hitting the stage for open mic night, our creepy comic goes SPLAT! By which we mean, he fails to raise a single laugh.

That’s probably not surprising, with material like, “Why don’t termites drink coffee?”

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