Filed under: Humor, Video, Steve Jobs, iPhone
"Steve Jobs" appeared on Saturday Night Live last night to talk about the iPhone and it's even better than we thought. Apparently it holds 2 billion, with a 'b,' songs! And it even has an on/off button and a clock! Oh, yeah, and don't forget to download The Office in iTunes.
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Evan Hindra said 8:13AM on 1-14-2007
I don't know.. that's some really bad impersonation right there. Not even remotely close to Steve!
Some parts are funny tho.
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Mike said 7:53AM on 1-14-2007
Good to see SNL is still as unfunny as ever. Tee hee, buzzwords. 'Uncanny' impersonation. Oh my. Laugh riot ensues.
At least this skit didn't go on for 20 minutes.
Maybe NBC should relegate this nonsensical wannabe satire to YouTube.
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EnglishmanInNewYork said 8:00AM on 1-14-2007
I agree, american comedy like this is really really cheesy. Its like some high school kids doing an impression of their teacher. Are these really comedy writers?
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BJ Nemeth said 8:28AM on 1-14-2007
I found it pretty funny, even though it's the same joke (it does everything!) that everyone else is telling. The biggest problem with most SNL skits is that they have no ending. They just "stop." This one at least ends on a kicker, by telling a strong joke about the battery life.
I love Apple, but I also love laughing about their idiosyncracies. (And those of Steve Jobs.)
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Indian Cowboy said 11:38AM on 1-14-2007
That was no where near close to being funny. It have been if it was a skit on either The Daily Show or Mad TV. Colbert Report had its own thing about apple which was way better than this.
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Rob Huebner said 1:23PM on 1-15-2007
As an american, I agree that the majority of american humor downright sucks. Only in America can you watch an entire episode of "america's funniest home videos" and not even chuckle once. I will say, however, that SNL is usually pretty good. I guess everyone has their mistakes.
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Lokheed said 11:49AM on 1-14-2007
What's funny about "2 billion songs?" I just don't see it.
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eletro said 12:58PM on 1-14-2007
Wow. What a bunch of whiny bitches. It's called hyperbole, people, and Steve Jobs is the master (which is why Fred Armisen's impersonation is dead on). Oh, and "Englishman," Americans don't have a patent on "cheesy" comedy.
I won't defend SNL as a whole, but Fred is almost always funny. Although his prrevious iPod Nano take-off was funnier than this.
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Dave said 2:43PM on 1-14-2007
Yeah nothing new. SNL still not funny. I sometimes wonder if they know what comedy is. Horrible impersonation of Jobs. Bad material.
I did like the whole fake Sci-fi movie those two guys did for Lorne tho. You know? The one with the the cats shooting lasers out of their mouths?
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Raz 4 life said 5:22PM on 1-14-2007
I can't wait to film a movie while watching a movie while making a phone call and watching... The Office!
Oh, wait... Zero Cingular coverage in my state :-(
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Scott said 2:12PM on 1-14-2007
Wait SNL is still on? Who knew?
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Kyle said 2:26PM on 1-14-2007
I saw this last night and thought it was pretty funny, especially Fred Armisen's random facts just popping up all the time.
"The Office"
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eialba said 2:29PM on 1-14-2007
That was a dead-on impersonation. Anyone who says otherwise hasn't seen the SF Keynote address yet or simply doesn't understand the humor.
And, of course, SNL is still on. Everyone knows that.
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Jon said 2:30PM on 1-14-2007
It was a great impersonation but the actual content was unfunny.
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Clayton said 2:37PM on 1-14-2007
Why is SNL not funny anymore? There wasn't a moment there when it was remotely funny. Bring Farley back to life!!!
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Daniel Diener said 3:02PM on 1-14-2007
bad impersonation - I agree... zZz
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Mike said 4:22PM on 1-14-2007
ele©tro,
Yah I'm whiny because I think SNL is the joke. A true parody of its former self.
I understand what hyperbole is, and I think the iPhone has some real problems, but that doesn't mean this skit is funny.
It's more of the same from recent vintage SNL. Comedy by repetition. In other words lazy man's comedy. In the old days that took the form of creating a character with a 'catch phrase', and showing them every show for a sure laugh. That's not so bad, and can be pretty funny. Call backs are used all the time in stand up performances, to good effect too.
However in these low talent days at SNL, skits have become self-referrential, in some sort of patethetic attempt to create instant catch phrases. How many times does Armisen resort to calling back to the same lame jokes to get a laugh? 'Gee, if I slap the audience around enough with this slightly funny reference, they'll feel like their 'in' on the joke and laugh it up.'
Yippeee for the Dane Cook generation of comics.
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Illtron said 3:42PM on 1-14-2007
Did anyone else think that the iPhone he's holding looks awfully real? You probably can't tell from the YouTube video, but on television it looks like the real thing. I wonder if Apple let them use one.
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Reg said 6:18PM on 1-14-2007
They sort of exaggerated the wrong things though, as if they were borrowing from the "iPod invisa" skit from last year.
Jobs this time round wasn't emphasizing its capacity at all, because basically at 4GB it isn't very good. Okay for a phone, but not for an iPod.
The repeated "you can watch The Office" was good though! Very suitable for NBC to use. (Even though you could only fit 1 or 2 billionths of a billion episodes of it on the phone.)
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spil said 7:28PM on 1-14-2007
That was pretty funny, except they made horrible mistakes that I could have improved upon. such as:
1. HA HA, it holds a lot of songs. That's not even true, what would have been funnier would have been "with the 4gb model, you can ALMOST store HALF an episode of 'the office', and with the 8gb, you can ALMOST store A WHOLE episode of 'the office'." Hyperbole, yes, but a more realistic version of it.
2. They could have made some references to the keynote, such as the remote breaking and Steve starting to tell some random story about how he played D&D with Woz in college or something.
3. They could have done the thing where he says "widescreen video iPod" (everyone cheers loudly) "cellphone" (everyone cheers VERY loudly) and "internet communicator" (one person cheers loudly, sees no one else cheers, sits down in embarrasement)
Although not many people would understand all of the aforementioned [better] jokes, they would still find it funny even though they didn't know the context.
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