‘Wassup’ commercial returns with same cast, political twist

Acclaimed African-American filmmaker Charles Stone, who won a Clio award for his “Wassup” series of commercials for Budweiser eight years ago, unveiled his own parody of the popular campaign Friday afternoon. The two-minute spot, featuring the same group of friends Stone made famous hawking beer, returns “8 years later” to ask the ask the same emblematic question, with somewhat different results: