'Are we great yet?' asks Dollar Shave Club founder in very unfunny political ad

A COVID victim in a body bag, one of many chilling images in the ad. (Dollar Shave Club)

October 30, 2020 03:50 PM

Michael Dubin is the former comedian best known for the funny razor ads he used to build Dollar Shave Club, which he sold to Unilever in 2016 for $1 billion, and still leads. But his latest effort isn’t funny at all and has nothing to do with razors.

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