Friday, April 15, 2011

Verizon Drops The “Can You Hear Me Now?” Guy

It’s the end of an era, folks. We’re moving from the “Time when Verizon ‘Can You Hear Me Now?’ jokes were a bit stale” era to the “Time when Verizon jokes weren’t even topical” era. The Verizon Guy — or as he’s known around Verizon, “Test Man” (or as he’s known around real life, Paul Marcarelli) — has been let go.

According to Marcarelli (in an interview with the Atlantic), his 9 year stint ended back in September when ol’ red shot him an e-mail along the lines of “We’re going in a different direction”. Don’t sweat it, Paul: 9 years is a helluva run. That god-awful Toyota Highlander kid only got around 3 months!