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For Ali Shahriari and Dave Irwin, advertising is a funny business.
Under the name Zebra Corner, they’ve earned their stripes with a series of outrageous online parody videos, frequently zinging Chevrolet’s “Real People” commercials. Their latest work is approaching 1.6 million YouTube views since it dropped last Thursday.
It features the hyper-sarcastic Irwin, aka “Mahk,” edited into actual Chevy ad footage, and doing his best Baaa-ston Mark Wahlberg tough-guy routine. He poses some pressing philosophical questions, like “Who is JD Power? I mean, honestly, it sounds like a porn star’s name” and “Did you guys rent this whole building out just to show off all the cars you couldn’t sell?”
UPDATE: And here’s another new parody, which rolled out March 23.
Both in their early 30s, Shahriari, a videographer for an engineering firm, and Irwin, a software configuration analyst (and former Army paratrooper), have been friends since high school and currently reside...
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