Patrick Warburton has made a career out of playing the smug and clueless jerk everyone loves to laugh at on shows like Seinfeld, Less than Perfect and Rules of Engagement. I guess that's why Apple thought he'd be the perfect guy to play a "top of the line" PC in the latest Mac ad:



I love these simple and amusing Get a Mac ads, but this is probably one of my favorites of the bunch. I never imagined this before, but now I can see the hammy Warburton maybe playing a self-important '60s commercial actor on Mad Men, or at least starring in an SNL-style Mad Men parody.

This isn't the first time Warburton has turned pitchman for a big corporation. He's appeared in tons of commercials, including a series of strange American Express ads with former co-star and Microsoft pitchman Jerry Seinfeld. Warburton played the voice of the animated Superman: