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Your Best Bet for a Fuller Flavour

Your Best Bet for a Fuller Flavour

...Humour & Carling Black Label

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Paddy Gilmore | HumourScope®
Jan 23, 2023
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Between 1983 and 1995, a brand of lager created one of the funniest, most resonant ad campaigns on British TV. The brand was Carling Black Label, and the campaign was called I bet he drinks [Carling Black Label]. Not only are the ads funny, but it’s fascinating to see how the campaign was born, the early mis-steps it took, how it progressed, and the hei…

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