Blackhawks Sing!

This is the sort of thing that could wind-up being painfully unfunny in the wrong hands, but this ad for a (hopefully) fictional Chicago Blackhawks Christmas album is so well written and well produced, and the announcer does such a pitch-perfect impression of those old K-Tel ads, that it's actually pretty brilliant.

The reason this works so well is that they're not asking the members of the Hawks to do any acting. They just have to do what hockey players do best, other than play hockey, which is stare blankly into a camera and be largely expressionless. I particularly enjoy John Scott's atonal contribution, and the fact that Marian Hossa doesn't seem to know what's going on. 

(Via Puck Daddy by way of our own Susan Jervis)