MinistryCOM :: JoBe Cerny

JoBe Cerny is an actor, writer, director and producer – and a well-known public speaker.

He is best known as the voice of the Pillsbury Doughboy, but his Silent Spokesman Character for Cheer Detergent made him one of America’s most recognized television commercial actors. He also has extensive advertising and business communications experience with General Motors, Procter & Gamble, SC Johnson, General Mills, Sara Lee, Kellogg’s, Coca Cola, McDonald’s, United Airlines, Disney, Discover Card, American Express and others.

Mr. Cerny is president of Cerny/American Creative in Chicago. Cerny/American Studios produces national radio and television commercials, feature films, radio programming, and business to business communication videos and live business meetings.

Cerny/American Creative produced the award-winning “Word of Promise” New Testament audio bible, and will soon release a Complete Bible, a 96 hour audio version. This project included over 1,200 artists and took over three years to produce.

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First off, JoBe is this dude…

and the voice of this one…

How cool?

• Favorite Bible verse is Genesis 1: In the beginning, God created…
• John 1 – In the beginning was the Word…
• The Nothing Speech
• Thinking is hard.
• It takes great effort. That’s probably why we don’t have many great philosophers.
• What happened to all of the people we went to college with who studied philosophy?
• Creativity is a more difficult subject.
• There’s not one correct answer like in math, economics, science, etc.
• Creativity has an infinite number of possibilities.
• Sort of like creation, there were infinite possibilities.
• People love it when they can make something out of absolutely nothing.
• If you sit and stare at nothing for awhile you’ll start to see something.
• If you want to be a creative person and come up with new ideas, you don’t need to have a lot of fancy things.
• Sometimes you can write down ideas and they will stimulate you.
• JoBe worked at Second City in Chicago
• “You want to know what they gave us to work with at Second City? Nothing.”
• JoBe and all of his creative partners go into the shower together… they are invisible partners.
• Invisible friends can be wonderful friends for people… like the Holy Spirit.
• We can count on the Holy Spirit to show up.
• What you need is nothing and your invisible friends.
• There’s a myth that every great artist needs to suffer.
• Nothing brings out the best in each and every one of us.
• Nothingness fuels creativity.
• Nothings can be motivators.
• Learn to crawl out on a limb so far that people wonder how you’re going to survive.
• I fear nothing because I believe.
• The most impressive creativity comes from living on the edge.
• The Spirit empowers us to go out every day and do what we are called to do.
• Christian marketing is evangelism.
• We live in a real world where people have real problems.
• His company charges nothing for creativity… if they don’t win, they don’t get paid.
• “Every day of our lives is like the last day of American Idol…”
• Creativity is found in the unknown.
• The simple statement in Genesis 1 is also one of the most complex.
• “God created the heaves and the earth…”
• The best place to find new things is to go somewhere where no one has ever gone before.
• Creativity is about creating new things people don’t know about.
• Creativity is doing things that no one else has ever known.
• Creativity means going on a path no one else has followed.
• It seems safer to stay home and take the safe way out.
• There’s no path or chart to follow when you’re thinking of things no one has ever thought of before.
• Creativity is a path filled with adventure.
• Nothing is really something.
• Allow yourself to be 10 years old again… allow yourself to think childish thoughts.
• Whenever you are stuck, look out the window.

I know a place where dreams are born
And time is never planned
It’s not on any chart
You must find it with your heart
Never never land

It might be miles beyond the road
Or right there where you stand
Just have an open mind
And then suddenly you’ll find
Never never land

You’ll have a treasure if you stay there
More precious far than gold
For once you have found your way there
You can never, never grow old
So come with me where dreams are born
And time is never planned
Just think of lovely things
And your heart will fly on wings
Forever
In never never land

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