There may not be a Los Angeles team in the Super Bowl this year, but at least a famed LA institution will make an appearance. In Andy Samberg and Elle Fanning’s Neil Diamond parody commercial about Hellmann’s mayonnaise, every Angeleno will recognize the location the ad is shot in: Canter’s Deli. They may have even been turned away while trying to eat there the day it was filmed, only to shrug and go to Langer’s Delicatessen instead.
In the ad, Andy Samberg plays a lonely, Neil Diamond-type singer who lives in a deli. He sings about how Hellmann’s helps him make friends as he dances around squirting the mayo on people’s sandwiches. It’s as playful, silly, and absurd as it sounds…