Film In 1996, Offer directed and appeared in
The Underground Comedy Movie, which was met with negative reviews and led to several lawsuits. Many of the sketches were remade from when Offer appeared on
public access television around the 1980s. Although the film was released and screened in 1999, Offer was bankrupt by 2002 and home video distribution plans were shelved, so he started selling the film via infomercials airing on
Comedy Central between 2:00 AM and 4:00 AM. Within a few months, he had earned enough to resume production, and the movie was finally completed, released, and marketed entirely on late-night infomercials that Offer paid for with his earnings from the swap meet vegetable chopper sales. In 2011, he appeared as himself in the
Adam Sandler film
Jack and Jill. Title character Jill, played by Sandler, referred to him as "the ShamWow guy". In 2013, Offer released the universally panned
InAPPropriate Comedy, which he directed, wrote and appears in as a character called 'Peeping Tom'. The film was originally envisioned as a sequel to
Underground Comedy Movie. The film features stars
Rob Schneider,
Michelle Rodriguez,
Adrien Brody,
Ari Shaffir, and
Lindsay Lohan.
Infomercial marketing After his successful infomercials for
The Underground Comedy Movie, he ran an ad in 2010 for
Eminem's
Recovery album. In 2020, Eminem celebrated the album's 10th anniversary by introducing merchandise and sharing the original commercial starring Offer.
ShamWow In 2006, Offer began to market a cleaning product that he saw in
flea markets, an absorbent towel that he called the "ShamWow!" The advertisement, filmed in the summer of 2007 with a budget of $20,000, received critical praise. Offer says that he has sold millions of the towels. In contrast to claims that the absorbency of the towels is over-hyped, he responds that returns of the product are low. Following the popularity of the commercial,
TMZ posted a remix of the commercial on their site in 2009. The remix was originally created by
DJ Steve Porter and uploaded on
YouTube. In 2020, Offer started to sell "ShamWow!" masks due to the
COVID-19 pandemic. He appeared in an infomercial showing the cloths, followed by wearing the face mask, which are made up of viscose/polypropylene thermally bonded non-woven cloth, and then giving a thumbs up.
Slap Chop In December 2008, Offer, who had previously sold kitchen utensils at
swap meets, The infomercial, filmed in August 2008, contains Offer's
aggressiveness and uses of
double entendres such as "you're gonna love my nuts" and "Stop having a boring tuna, stop having a boring life". The advertisement quickly went viral shortly after its release, and the uses of his aggressiveness and double entendres were noted by
AdWeek, and, according to an
Adweek blog, helped make Offer "the man who could beat Billy Mays at his own game." Mays had been promoting a similar product set which included the Quick Chop utensil and the Quick Grater utensil prior to Offer's Slap Chop/Graty product set. Mays again noted that the Slap Chop commercials use many of the same demos as the earlier-produced Quick Chop commercial. Mays said in the same
Adam Carolla radio show interview in February 2009 that Offer stole not only the Zorbeez product idea, but also the Quick Chop idea. In April 2009, DJ
Steve Porter posted an
electro-themed "Slap Chop Rap"
Auto Tune remix which grew a
cult following during July 2009. An excerpt from a televised Slap Chop commercial featuring Offer is briefly on screen during the 2013 blockbuster Marvel superhero movie
Iron Man 3.
Schticky In 2012, Offer returned to television selling the "Schticky", a reusable lint roller that comes in three sizes: little Schticky, Schticky, and big Schticky. The commercial makes many references to his other two commercials for the ShamWow and the Slap Chop, with Offer saying many of his catchphrases. He also pokes fun at his 2009 arrest by posing for a fake
mugshot. The Schticky commercial was co-written by the comedian
Dante. A segment of the commercial briefly appears in the
Breaking Bad episode "
Say My Name".
Canada Green In April 2014, Offer appeared in a Canada Green commercial advertising their "Quicky Grass" product.
Crank Chop In December 2015, Offer appeared in a Crank Chop infomercial demonstrating the abilities of the product that slices and dices food with the pull of a nylon cord.
Politics In October 2025, Offer released "Woke Busters", a video parodying the
Ghostbusters theme song, featuring Texas Republican Congressional candidate
Valentina Gomez. Offer sings "If there's something creepy looking at your pee-pee" while showing a
man dressed in feminine attire in a park and then cutting to a shot of a young boy holding a basketball, with the camera zooming in slightly on the boy's clothed crotch. The video includes people wearing
MAGA hats, with a scene showing a college admitting students based solely on race due to
DEI policies. In November 2025, Offer filed to run for the Republican nomination in
Texas's 31st congressional district, the same district Gomez was running in, aiming to unseat incumbent congressman
John Carter. In an interview with Fox News, he stated that he would run on an anti-
woke platform, and that he was inspired to enter the race by the
assassination of Charlie Kirk. He was defeated in the Republican primary by Carter, placing sixth in a field of ten. He later announced he was suing the Texas Republican Party, claiming that by removing the word “Shamwow” from the ballot, the election was rigged in Carter's favor. ==Legal issues==