David Wahl

Me in a pig mask! archiemcphee: Creepy Pig Mask - The perfect...

Sat, 14 Jan 2012 22:31:31 -0800

Me in a pig mask!

Creepy Pig Mask - The perfect mask for BBQs and protesting greed!

Me with the original Dr. Zaius costume from Planet of the Apes....

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 16:15:17 -0800

Me with the original Dr. Zaius costume from Planet of the Apes. It appeared to be freshly laundered despite Charlton Heston calling him damn dirty.

zoomar: For Christmas this year, I got my whole family t-shirts...

Sun, 25 Dec 2011 09:35:58 -0800

zoomar:

For Christmas this year, I got my whole family t-shirts with my face on them. Earlier in the year Jim Koch had to draw me for a video at work and as a joke I made a t-shirt of myself for myself. Now, I’m super famous in Ohio and my family looks amazingly fashionable!

Me with giant popsicle in downtown Seattle. Sculpture by...

Sun, 23 Oct 2011 14:59:23 -0700

Me with giant popsicle in downtown Seattle. Sculpture by Catherine Mayer

Shana and I did a little video to demonstrate the new products...

Fri, 23 Sep 2011 17:05:39 -0700

Shana and I did a little video to demonstrate the new products at Archie McPhee.

Me!

Wed, 31 Aug 2011 10:47:33 -0700

Me!

Talented artist Jim Koch recently started working for Archie...

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 13:52:52 -0700

Talented artist Jim Koch recently started working for Archie McPhee. We’re working on a video project that required a graphic of me and he made this. Love it! I bet he wishes I was an evil clown.

The popular rock band Gorillaz used our Yodelling Pickle sound...

Fri, 05 Aug 2011 14:59:52 -0700

The popular rock band Gorillaz used our Yodelling Pickle sound on an album. We said it was fine if they gave it away to their fan club, but if they sold it on an album we’d have to talk again. They decided to sell it without talking to us. So, we made a commercial with it. Enjoy! (That’s me as the chicken.)

A short video I made for the Affirmation Button.

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 22:59:51 -0700

A short video I made for the Affirmation Button.

One of the benefits of working at Archie McPhee is being...

Tue, 05 Jul 2011 07:47:29 -0700

One of the benefits of working at Archie McPhee is being involved in all aspects of product creation. In this case, I got to be the voice for our new Affirmation Button. It’s my voice, slightly sped up, telling you just how awesome you are.

Use the virtual Affirmation Button by clicking here.

Baconzilla! A movie trailer for an Archie McPhee product, Mr....

Wed, 25 May 2011 08:26:47 -0700

Baconzilla! A movie trailer for an Archie McPhee product, Mr. Bacon.

Clip from the Great Puppet Happiness Machine. I’m playing...

Mon, 16 May 2011 13:25:25 -0700

Clip from the Great Puppet Happiness Machine. I’m playing the guru at the top of a mountain.

Here’s a parody/commercial for the Bacon Lollipop I made...

Fri, 06 May 2011 15:58:12 -0700

Here’s a parody/commercial for the Bacon Lollipop I made that takes its inspiration from David Lynch’s amazing coffee commercial, which you can watch by clicking here.

I’m directing a puppet show called The Great Puppet...

Sat, 30 Apr 2011 14:54:00 -0700

I’m directing a puppet show called The Great Puppet Happiness Machine! being put on by the talented folks at Puppet This. It’s running May 3rd-18th on Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 8PM. It has singing therapists, a puppet drug trip and, if the tech works out, a fog machine! Not to be missed.

Get Tickets Here

This is a great article about Archie...

Thu, 28 Apr 2011 10:24:25 -0700

This is a great article about Archie McPhee.

archiemcphee:

Wired did a great photo essay on our Seattle store. This is a bin of our Deluxe Finger Monsters.

See the rest of the pictures here!

Here’s a commercial I directed for Archie McPhee. A play...

Mon, 25 Apr 2011 13:40:00 -0700

Here’s a commercial I directed for Archie McPhee. A play off the original panda commercial you can watch here.

archiemcphee:

Archie McPhee’s new commercial for Bacon Mints. Do what the panda says. Really. Do it.

Here’s a local news story about what goes on in one of our...

Fri, 01 Apr 2011 19:55:39 -0700

Here’s a local news story about what goes on in one of our Archie McPhee creative meetings. That’s me in the bright orange shirt holding the Yodelling Pickle.

For the last four years, we’ve come up with a series of...

Sun, 27 Mar 2011 22:00:16 -0700

For the last four years, we’ve come up with a series of fake products at Archie McPhee to celebrate April Fool’s Day. The most popular by far is the Bacon Tuxedo shown above. (I wrote the description you can read if you click the link) This year, we decided not to do the fake products. Instead, we’re giving away a hundred free Rubber Chickens.

The Bacon Tuxedo was so popular it even inspired a puzzle.

Here’s an article I was interviewed for called The...

Fri, 25 Mar 2011 07:51:00 -0700

Here’s an article I was interviewed for called The Business of Making People Laugh.

So what works? Beyond the juxtaposition of the unexpected, as in waffle-flavored dental floss or a vengeful unicorn doll that comes with figurines to impale on its horn, Wahl cautiously posits that a successful gag, by McPhee’s standards, comes from “something that people probably think is a private joke. The product allows them to share in the idea that here’s a community of people who share that joke. Every culture on the Earth has something with bacon, so bacon bandages allow people to connect over something specific that’s actually very broad. Those are the things that people think are funny.”

When I first met my wife, she collected issues of Weekly World...

Tue, 22 Mar 2011 07:29:39 -0700

When I first met my wife, she collected issues of Weekly World News and was Bat Boy obsessed. Little did I know that a decade later in 2002 I would be quoted in this esteemed newspaper. The reporter was amazed that I was happy to talk to the Weekly World News. One shocking fact I learned, Max Durango is a woman!