Larry David finally speaks about that famous FTX SuperBowl ad

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Last Updated on 3 February 2024 by CryptoTips.eu

This week, comedian Larry David presented the final season of the very popular series ‘Curb your enthusiasm’. As FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried has now been convicted of fraud and it is clear that the celebrities named in the lawsuit will never appear before a judge, he responded for the very first time to the famous FTX SuperBowl spot for which he received millions of dollars back in 2022.

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Matt Damon

In America you need advertising and celebrities to sell a product, so for a few years now there have been some famous videos in which Hollywood stars promote crypto platforms. Already in 2021 there was Matt Damon (known from the Jason Bourne films) who promoted crypto.com with his famous line ‘fortune favors the brave’.

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The video became an instant internet meme and South Park made fun of it for an entire episode when the price of Bitcoin fell heavily in the summer of 2022 due to the Terra and Luna scandals.

Not a good idea

Comedian Larry David also did a much-discussed commercial during the SuperBowl in 2022. He was paid by FTX, the crypto platform that went bankrupt months later.

In the video Larry pretends to be a king or president who has to judge throughout history whether an invention is good or bad. He plays his typical character from ‘Curb your enthusiasm’ where he criticizes everything and everyone. When FTX is finally suggested to him, Larry claims it’s not a good idea.

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The commercial was presented during the 2022 SuperBowl, which took place in February of that year. It seemed like a good idea at the time, but when FTX filed for bankruptcy months later, Larry David, along with other celebrities like NFL superstar Tom Brady and supermodel Gisele Bundchen, was indicted for fraud. However, the celebrities never had to appear in court.

David has now finally responded. He says that he was partly paid in crypto by FTX, and that he had lost a lot of money as a result.

Jeroen Kok

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