Comments for "Jerry Seinfeld's Brilliant Response to a Telemarketer" Video at VideoSift.com

By Oatmeal

Oatmeal (http://www.videosift.com/member/Oatmeal) — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 17:58:30 -0700

WTF? I clicked to watch this and it was a video of some asian people performing some songs on stage. weird. it seems fine now though.

By gorillaman

gorillaman (http://www.videosift.com/member/gorillaman) — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 19:03:38 -0700

I just ask them to hang on for a moment then never come back to the phone.

By gwaan

gwaan (http://www.videosift.com/member/gwaan) — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 19:13:21 -0700

Great post!

By bizinichi

bizinichi (http://www.videosift.com/member/bizinichi) — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 13:29:29 -0700

gorillaman, I'd love to try that. AFAIK, the reps aren't allowed to hang up on you (but they probably would in that situation, don't you think?) So you could always try and make a conversation with them about BS (like that one I saw about that guy acting like he was suicidal, or handing the phone over to someone who just won't shut up)

Anyhow, here's a counterscript http://www.xs4all.nl/~egbg/counterscript.html

By gorgonheap

gorgonheap (http://www.videosift.com/member/gorgonheap) — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 14:56:04 -0700

I heard a sound clip once of a guy pretending to be an investagator at a crime scene and was threatening to put the marketer in jail if he hung up under charges of interfearing with an investigation. It was hillarious.

By bizinichi

bizinichi (http://www.videosift.com/member/bizinichi) — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 23:02:12 -0700

Yeah that one is GOLD. GENIUS: http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Telemarketer-didnt-have-a-script-for-this-call

By WolfDemon

WolfDemon (http://www.videosift.com/member/WolfDemon) — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 00:33:13 -0700

Hehe...the bob and tom show...*listens to that every morning*

By cardboardhut

cardboardhut (http://www.videosift.com/member/cardboardhut) — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 12:04:31 -0700

I like this scene but I remember my first job in high school, calling people for market research (bad, I know, but I didn't know any better), literally one out of every five people I'd call would repeat this as if they'd thought it up themselves. A few times I said, "sure! Give me a call around 9 - my number is xxx-xxxx" and they wouldn't know what to say next.

By eric3579

eric3579 (http://eric3579.videosift.com) — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 11:35:15 -0700

*dead

By siftbot

siftbot (http://www.videosift.com/member/siftbot) — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 11:35:19 -0700

This published video has been declared as non-functional; embed code must fixed within 2 days or it will be sent to the dead pool - declared dead by eric3579.

By siftbot

siftbot (http://www.videosift.com/member/siftbot) — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 12:36:05 -0700

Awarding firefly with one star point for fixing this video's dead embed code.