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Comedic actor Jim Varney played his signature character Ernest P. Worrell in hundreds of commercials and five Disney films including 'Ernest Goes to Camp. Olivia Rodrigo —. Megan Thee Stallion —. Bowen Yang —. In the commercials, he got his fingers slammed in a house window, fell off a ladder and got electrically shocked fooling with a broken TV set. He plugged a variety of sponsors, including dairy products, car dealerships, pizza and radio stations.
He gets excited and ends up standing on your toes. Five more Ernest films were released independently, mainly for the video and television markets. Ernest usually was dressed in a baseball cap, T-shirt, blue denim vest and blue jeans. He also found success as a touring stand-up comedian, doing sets for Johnny Carson and Merv Griffin, and he was gaining a small following on the Los Angeles comedy scene for his impressions and wacky characters. During his stand-up career, he also formed a close friendship with the late Robin Williams after working with him at Los Angeles' iconic Comedy Store in the mids.
After more than a decade in the entertainment business, Varney's stand-up and acting career was solid, if not spectacular. During an actor's strike in , Varney decided to take a break from Hollywood and head back home to Kentucky.
Trying to pick up local gigs as an actor, Varney got a part playing a military instructor named Sergeant Glory for a car dealership in Nashville, Tennessee. The spot was the brainchild of advertising executive John Cherry III, the man who would become the most important person in Varney's career. John Cherry III had a problem. How do you show off a product without, well, showing it?
Cherry came up with an obnoxious, over-the-top, loveable braggart who talked up the amusement park to his unseen buddy Vern, speaking directly to the camera, and thus the audience, too. It was a brilliantly simple setup But Cherry stuck with Ernest, and eventually, his "hey, Vern! By the time major brands like Sprite and Mello Yello came calling, the verdict was in — Ernest was a hit!
Ernest was a rare, unprecedented phenomenon in advertising — a spokesperson who wasn't associated with any one particular brand or company. And he stayed busy. Very busy. Thanks to the shoestring production budgets, the super easy, single-camera, one-take setups, and Jim Varney's rubber face and photographic memory, the company could easily film multiple Ernest commercials for a host of different clients in rapid-fire succession.
In fact, the agency once filmed a staggering 26 commercials in a single day. And Ernest's connection to the communities where his commercials ran was real. Even before Ernest went mainstream, people often thought he was just some local guy shooting a no-budget commercial. Which, in a way, he was. Cherry and Varney were hired by local and regional brands, which meant they got paid local and regional rates.
While Cherry and Varney did eventually get major national brands, they had to turn down one of the biggest clients in the world, Chevrolet, due to obligations with local, competing car dealerships. The "local guy" was becoming a national sensation. Beyond filming more than 3, local and regional commercials from coast to coast, from Oakhurst Dairy in Maine to Cerritos Auto Square in Southern California, Jim Varney was making sold-out appearances as Ernest across the country at malls and other events, including frequent Make-A-Wish visits.
In , Ernest made an appearance at the Indianapolis , also featuring one of the most popular characters ever, Mickey Mouse. But something unexpected happened. Instead, he pulled out his checkbook. Disney partnered with Cherry to bring Ernest to the big screen under their Touchstone banner. The result?
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