Shane Gillis goes head to head with Danny McBride in an absurdly funny new ad for prediction market platform Kalshi.
\n\nMcBride wrote the four-minute commercial, which stars Gillis as a weatherman who can’t seem to get the forecast right. McBride isa meteorologist at a competing network who is somehow always spot on.
\n\nFed up with his lousy predictions, Gillis puts on a pantyhose mask and goes to McBride’s home, where he finds his rival offering meatloaf and rosemary potatoes to a mysterious oracle played by Deep Roy, who played the lead Oompa Loompa in Johnny Depp’s “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” and who had a guest role on McBride’s “Eastbound & Down.”
\n\nClad in a red and white robe, Roy appears with a pony and tells McBride, “Tomorrow is going to be 68 degrees, cloudy, thunderstorms.”
\n\nOnce McBride is out of sight, Gillis kidnaps the oracle in hopes of taking advantage of his weather prophecies. But he learns the hard truth when he finds out Roy is simply getting his information from Kalshi.
\n\n“You’re not even a magic wizard. Anyone can do this. You’re not real!” Gillis says.
\n\nAn abridged version of the four-minute spot will air during Game 1…
Original source: https://variety.com/v/tv/