You people have no sense of humour.

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To all the wags on the net complaining about the Microsoft Seinfeld / Gates advertisements, I say “grow a sense of humour!”.  These advertisements are wonderfully absurd, from the idea of Bill Gates shopping in a discount shoe store, to the Mexican family talking about the Conquistador, referring to the shoes and not the man, to Seinfeld’s observations no showering while clothed.  The weakest piece, frankly, is the end.

No, it’s not Owen Wilson, or some piece of teen gross-out humour from Will Farrell.  It’s actually funny.  I can hardly wait to see the rest.

But then again, I grew up on Monty Python, Mr. Bean, Peter Cooke, Laurel and Hardy, Terry Gilliam, and Peter Sellers.

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Alec Saunders is the Vice President of Developer Relations for BlackBerry maker Research in Motion. This is his personal blog, with his personal viewpoints. Prior to this Alec was the CEO and co-founder of Calliflower — the easiest way to hold a meeting, online, on a conference call, or on the go. A double-decade veteran of product management and marketing, he spent nine years at Microsoft where he helped launch Windows 95, the first two versions of Internet Explorer, the Universal Plug and Play initiative, the push into home markets, opt-in email marketing and what might well go down in history as the very first direct email list ever.