Ridiculous Infomercial Review Blog

I’ve added a video clip from the current Dual Action Cleanse infomercial. Go to the bottom of my review of the Dual Action Cleanse 2 infomercial to see it.

In this delightful segment, Dr James Chappell asks the burning question, “Do I have to examine my stool to know that the program is working?” Klee answers that you don’t—but he’s not going to let you squeamish people off the hook that easily because they then show us all a picture of someone else’s stool!

Check it out: Dual Action Cleanse 2

I’ve posted a full review of the latest infomercial for Dual Action Cleanse colon cleanser. This is the first time I have ever written full reviews for different versions of infomercials selling the same product, but what can I say: Klee Irwin is worth it.

Some highlights:

* Klee says that “celebrities” and “politicians” use Dual Action Cleanse, but he never names any of these celebrities and politicians.
* Host Dr. James Chappell reveals when the golden age of health really occured and tells a story about a man who lived 152 years because of his clean colon.
* Klee Irwin talks trash about his rival Danny Vierra of The Almighty Cleanse for using the Bible to create a colon cleanse formula.
* Klee delights us all with a picture of exactly what comes out of you after a “cleanse.”

I’ll try to find some video clips from the infomercial and include it on the page.

Check it out: Dual Action Cleanse 2 with Klee Irwin

(If you still haven’t read my review of the original infomercial, read it at Dual Action Cleanse and watch video clips.)

I recently got a cell phone with a built in camera. I doubted that I would ever have any use for my phone camera, thinking it a feature more suited to 13-year-old girls who want to take pictures of their drunken friends to put on MySpace.

But recently I was in Rite Aid and I came across a frightening spectacle that I just needed to snap a picture of. No, it wasn’t a ghost or an ax murder: It was the image of Klee Irwin on a box of Dual Action Cleanse.

Yes it appears that Dual Action Cleanse is now being sold at your local drug store and supermarket. Klee Irwin apparently thinks he now has enough fame and credibility that putting his own greasy face and scraggly facial hair on the package will actually tempt people to buy the product. Maybe Klee wants to transform himself into a beloved and familiar advertising mascot on store shelves, like Aunt Jemima or Count Chocula.

The text beneath Klee’s signature reads, “Klee Irwin Host of the TV Show Health Breakthroughs.” I’m not sure what “Health Breakthroughs” is but I strongly suspect it was the B.S. title given to one of his infomercials so that he could fool old people into thinking they were watching a real talk show.

Klee Irwin hates us.

But we love Klee Irwin.

No one has provided more strangeness and hilarity on TV and radio infomercials in a very long time. And unlike such superstars of off-beat infomercials as Tom Vu and Santo Gold, Klee Irwin is still cranking out absurd infomercials like Dual Action Cleanse and Libido-Max today.

Klee has a brand new version of his Dual Action Cleanse infomercial on the air now. (If you have ATN on your cable system you can catch it there.)

When I first saw that there was new version of Dual Action Cleanse I was disappointed because I assumed that nothing could match the ridiculousness of his first crap-fest. But I am happy to announce that this latest addition to Klee’s body of work is almost as weird and laughable as the first!

In fact there is so much there that I am planning on writing a full review of the Dual Action 2 infomercial. (This will be the first time ever that the Ridiculous Infomercial Review has reviewed two versions of the same infomercial.)

I will, however, mention one thing now. I love when one infomercial makes snide references to a rival infomercial. On this latest Dual Action Cleanse infomercial, host James Chappell mentions seeing a competing colon cleanse product on TV and says, “This product claims to follow the biblical prescription for internal cleansing, which by the way I couldn’t find in my Bible.” A clear slap at the 7 Day Almighty Cleanse from “Christian health evangelist” Danny Vierra. Then Klee adds, “Do you really think it’s healthy or comfortable to expel that in a short amount of time like 7 days?”

Fight! Fight!

Please believe me when I tell you that I really didn’t want to write any more about Klee Irwin, star of the Dual Action Cleanse infomercial. But then on Saturday I just happened to turn on my radio and well…Let me say this: For a person who writes about things that are weird, odd, and laugh-out-loud funny on infomercials, Mr. Klee Irwin is the gift that keeps on giving.

Klee Irwin’s latest radio infomercial is for a product called Libido-Max, which is an herbal “soft gel” that is supposed to stimulate the sex drives of men and women.

If you thought Klee talking about bowel movements and constipation was gross, just wait until you hear him discussing erections, orgasms, and lubrication!

Klee’s previous radio infomercials for Dual Action Cleanse and his blood sugar/diabetes product eventually made their way to TV, which leaves open the tantalizing possibility that we will someday soon be blessed with a TV infomercial for Libido-Max. So watch out ExtenZe and Alzare: Klee’s in town and he’s kickin’ butt and takin’ names.

I recorded some audio from the Libido-Max radio infomercial. So play this clip, close your eyes, and imagine these words coming out of the mouth of Klee Irwin:

Audio of Klee Irwin on the Libido-Max Radio Infomercial (41 seconds)

Excuse me while I kneel…

Lord,

Please, Oh Please, persuade Klee Irwin to take his infomercial for Libido-Max to television.

Amen