John Cleese Breaks Free in TomTom GPS Campaign

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John Cleese has been doing ads forever, with extremely mixed results. The high point may have been his famous Compaq computer spots from the '80s. The low point was probably last year's ad for the Home Emergency Response service in England—in which he stomped on his own legacy by playing a guy whose house has "faulty showers." He also did a weird set of ads for data-security firm Iron Mountain in which he played a character called Dr.

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