What Famous TV Commercial Actors Get Paid

That's a Spicy Meatball!

Jack Somack was the face of the Alka-Seltzer commercial that defined a genre of jokes that have been passed down from generation to generation. Seriously, "That's a spicy meatball" is way up there, probably only second to "Where's the beef?" Somack wasn't just a commercial actor though, he appeared in a ton of feature films in the early-mid 1900s.

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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.