He started a successful chain of electronic stores in Brooklyn that branched out all over the New York Tri-State area. But then Crazy Eddie began skimming profits. When he was caught he fled to Israel.
Four years later he was returned to the U.S. and was sentenced to 8 years in prison and had to pay restitution to victims of his fraud to the tune of $150 million.
His commercials pretty much started the home grown local “whacky” type advertisement, featuring local disc jockey Jerry Carroll.
Pinko, back in the day, worked for Crazy Eddie. He was not happy when Antar skipped town.
Here’s the classic Crazy Eddie commercial made before Jerry Carroll went front and center-
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This is where Dan Akroyd got his shtick!
I remember those ads. Then I remember later hearing he was in trouble. Thanks to my pot-hazed informative years I never knew what it was all about. So he disappeared from TV ads.
Purty “crazy.” Glad I don’t watch tv. ….Lady in Red
I always shopped at B&H Photo
Yes I remember that fucking clown. I used to turn him off. I never really knew what he was advertising
I had know idea Mr. Pinko was actually black.
Is Mr. Pinko singing in that ad? FESS UP!
Great acapella. I’ve seen the spin-off commercials but this may be the first time I’ve seen the original crazy guy in action.
Mr. Pinko worked for this guy? Don’t know whether to say that’s cool or that sucks. Sounds like he ripped Mr. Pinko off too?
Cool to know, I guess.
It’s pinkos dad
you want to get rich but lack the ambition it takes normal people to achieve it?
become a lawyer politician and just steal it from the taxpayers like the clintons and all the other thief’s in the political arena.
the difference between the beast hillary and al cappone is al didn’t own the fbi and irs.
I remember him and the Crazy Eddie commercials. I think my parents shopped at one of his stores. RIP.
He may not be undersold but now he’s 6 feet under. One less crazy and Hillary is on her way to meet you Eddie! Two crazies, oh hell is going to be busy.
In 1990 my British expat hubby got a great deal on a used Jaguar XJS V12 that was a bit too ostentatious for my taste. Having lived in the northeast, I was amused to find, according to the paperwork in the glove box, that the previous owner was Crazy Eddie, Inc. I tried to explain the ads to him (it being the Dark Ages, before AL Gore brought us the internet and all its intellectual resources, such as youtube). So now, he finally understands why, while he was feeling all ‘James Bond,’ I always felt like ‘Mr & Mrs Crazy Eddie,’ on the lam in the company car when we drove around our small southern town.