ShamWow
| Vince Offer | |
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Offer in 2009
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| Born |
Offer Shlomi April 25, 1964 Beersheba, Israel |
| Other names | Vince Shlomi, ShamWow Guy |
| Occupation | Salesman, screenwriter, film director, film producer, comedian, editor |
| Years active | 1999–present |
| Known for | Infomercial acting, |
| Spouse(s) | Melody Claire Mandate (m. 2014) |
| Children | 1 |
Offer Shlomi (Hebrew: עוֹפﬧ שלוֹמי; born April 25, 1964), better known as Vince Offer, Vince Shlomi, or "The ShamWow Guy", is an Israeli American director, writer, comedian, and infomercial pitchman. Offer's first major work was the 1999 comedy film The Underground Comedy Movie. Offer owns, produces, and appears in television commercials for his products "ShamWow!", an absorbent towel, the "Slap Chop", a kitchen utensil, a lint roller called the "Schticky", a liquid cleaner called "InVinceable", and more recently, another kitchen utensil called "Crank Chop". He has also officially advertised other products that he does not own such as Eminem's 2010 album Recovery and Quicky Grass.
Offer was raised in Brooklyn, New York City.
In 1999, Offer directed and appeared in The Underground Comedy Movie, which was met with extremely negative reviews. DVDs of the film were marketed via television infomercial. The film also led to several lawsuits. Although the film was released and screened in 1999, Offer was bankrupt by 2002 and home video distribution plans were shelved. Offer, who had previously been a successful vegetable chopper salesman and businessman, resumed selling vegetable choppers at swap meets to support himself and raise money to complete his film project. Within a few months, he had earned enough to resume production, and the movie was finally completed, released, and marketed entirely on late-night infomercials that Offer paid for with his earnings from the swap meet vegetable chopper sales. The film has sold in excess of 100,000 copies and Offer has used the proceeds from sales to file a lawsuit against the Church of Scientology. He is an ex-Scientologist.
In 2011, he appeared as himself in the Adam Sandler film Jack and Jill. Title character Jill, played by Sandler, referred to him as "the ShamWow guy".
In 2013, Offer released the universally panned InAPPropriate Comedy, which he directed, wrote and appears in as a character called 'Peeping Tom'. The film was originally envisioned as a sequel to his previous anthology, called Underground Comedy 2010. The film features stars Rob Schneider, Michelle Rodriguez, Adrien Brody, and Lindsay Lohan. Examples of film sketches include comedian Ari Shaffir as 'The Amazing Racist', with deliberately offensive hidden-camera encounters with members of different minority groups, and Brody as 'Flirty Harry', a Dirty Harry spoof.
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