Well, I have never heard of the Verve, or their music or seen the video (or is it DVD) and that is actually irrelevant. The Verve, video, whatever, will generally only have been seen by people who knew the group, their take on life and were in with the humour. The advert was played to the general public, most of whom probably had very little interest in the Verve and would not have recognised the analogy.
I found the comparison with slapstick particularly irritating. This wasn't slapstick. Slapstick has a lightness of touch and a distancing from reality that makes it amusing. This advert just showed a man who thinks he has a right to walk over anyone who gets in his way, regardless of who or what they are, doing just that. Sorry, where is the joke?
Quite simply the advert was crass and vulgar and the ASA has now endorsed the fact that it is quite acceptable for television advertising to be crass and vulgar.