Super Bowl Sunday is, quite famously, a big deal for bona fide sports fans—but let’s not forget that it’s also huge for people who don’t really get football but love to watch extremely famous celebrities appear in fast-food commercials. (And then, of course, there are the Swifties.)
If you merely tuned in this Sunday to watch the Kansas City Chiefs take on the Philadelphia Eagles, then more power to you; for the rest of us, the day is all about (a) various and sundry dips, (b) halftime performer Kendrick Lamar taking his Drake beef to the world’s biggest stage, and (c) keeping track of the commercials that pack the most celebrity-cameo power and witty execution into their roughly one-minute run time.
Here, a roundup of the very best commercials from Super Bowl LIX
Maurizio Cattelan’s $6.2 Million Banana (oh, and Kris Jenner, Chris Hemsworth, and Chris Pratt) for Meta
An Art Basel joke in a major Super Bowl commercial? A bit of a swing, to be sure, but let’s face it: The various Chris/Krises really sold (or maybe ate, ha-ha?) the bit.