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Inside Advertising: Brands Have Become Addicted to Absurdist Humor

By David Schonauer   Monday March 30, 2026

Something's been happening in advertising for a while now, notes Creative Boom: Absurdism—proper, committed, logic-free absurdism—has quietly become the default register for a significant portion of mainstream creative work. Old Spice showed that a man on a horse delivering non-sequiturs could shift product faster than any rational benefit claim. Dominos …

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