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    Super Bowl commercials 2024: Christopher Walken, Dunkin' and Jesus take the wheel

    by Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times Feb 12, 2024 4 minutes
    Christopher Walken starred in a BMW commercial where he is impersonated by everyone he meets.

    Taylor Swift's new television special Sunday, aka Super Bowl LVIII, carried live from Las Vegas on CBS and Paramount+, came with a football game attached, a musical production number and a host of comedy sketches masquerading as commercials — and they said variety was dead!

    I have been asked here, however, to discuss only the commercials, which are granted a newsworthiness they rarely enjoy elsewhere in television, based entirely on their proximity to this one event, the big money involved and the big stars who pick up big money for a day's work, if that. Major American celebrities — from Audrey Hepburn and Marlon Brando to Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts —

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