Comedian Larry David was self-effacing when asked this week about his infamous Super Bowl commercial for Sam Bankman-Fried's cryptocurrency exchange FTX, which collapsed months after the ad. "I asked people, friends of mine who were well-versed in this stuff, 'Should I do this ad?'" he told the Associated Press in an interview this week. "They said, 'Yeah, this is totally on the up and up,' ... So, like an idiot, I did it." In the commercial, David portrayed characters belittling various innovations throughout history. "I call it the wheel," he's told as the commercial begins. "Eh, I don't think so," David replies. ... (full story)