A look back on infomercial favorites -- the good, the bad and the ugly. Dec. 31, 2008 — -- Admit it, you love those TV infomercials and want to know which products really work and which ones are ...

If you're listening to us right now, you're probably not watching Barack Obama's 30-minute-long ad. It's airing on some networks as I speak. It is essentially a 30-minute political infomercial.

The television was tuned to one of the 750 stations we have, and Jack LaLanne was hawking his Power Juicer on a painfully annoying infomercial. Yep, the same Jack LaLanne whose exercise show I watched ...

Dress up a pig in lipstick and a dress and, underneath it all, you’ve still got a pig. Dress up a bad investment idea in a slick infomercial, and it’s still going to be worthy of Stupid Investment of ...

On Wednesday evening, Barack Obama showed an infomercial on primetime television to address the nation about his campaign. It was broadcasted on seven major networks, including CBS and NBC, and ...

Barack Obama wasn’t selling tomato slicers or time-shares, but a star TV pitchman said the presidential hopeful’s infomercial had a key element for success – passion. Infomercial king Matthew Lesko – ...

The Screen Actors Guild's 2003 Commercials Contract, which has been extended to 2008, covers infomercials shot on film, although the guild also has a separate five-page agreement that deals with them ...

I do give him the benefit of an infomercial when it comes to selling. You can always sell a lot more in 28 minutes and 30 seconds than you can in just one minute. One minute to cram in all the things ...