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We must've missed the memo, but apparently Joel McHale is 2005's go-to guy for deadpan nastiness in commercials.

McHale, E!'s resident snarkbot host of The Soup (and onetime Will & Grace guest star and Spider-Man 2 cameo-titian) cut some amazing deal with Madison Avenue's devils to be featured in ads for Coor's Aspen Edge (that's a low carb beer, not the name of an eighties skiing exploitation flick) and Burger King's Angus Steak Burger (again, it's a foodstuff, not the name of a B-movie).

If you were watching Late Show with David Letterman last night, you might've even caught these two ads nearly back-to-back. The spots for BK are a shameless rip-off of BBC's The Office, right down the drab, anonymous workplace setting, the jerky comedic rhythm, 'non-punch line' punch lines, and the annoying boss from hell who thinks he's funny. That would be our man McHale.

The Aspen Edge ads have him competing in a juvenile game of lifestyle one-upsmanship with a friend while barbecuing some steaks. The two dudes compare the colleges they went to and number of women they slept with (and their quality therein). The punch line here consists of the jerk at the grill throwing his friend's steak on the ground. That would be McHale, again.

Looks like Joel McHale (who apparently studied Shakespeare in college) is this year's Joe Isuzu.

Hey, whatever happened to that guy? Still workin'! Phew.
Joel McHale [E!]