Great comedian but marketing is a fact of life for businesses. Lots of marketing may seem distasteful to many people (e.g. I find all the adverts in kids programs distasteful) but it basically works and thus will continue. If someone is not in the job of running a business that needs marketing, it's easy to sit back and sneer at it, but other people's livelihoods depend on it. Often "tasteful" marketing fails to work as effectively as "in your face" marketing.