Filed under: Macworld, Humor, Video, iPhone
Mad TV's take on the iPhone
I've never been a big fan of Mad TV (and I didn't really care for their iPad spoof - not because it was offensive, just because it wasn't funny), but a friend just sent me this clip from YouTube and I'll admit to being amused by it. The impression of Steve Jobs, as portrayed by Michael McDonald (not of Doobie Brothers fame), is not really very good, but I think the overall sentiment behind the skit is on the mark.
Is Steve Jobs an iWitch? You be the judge.
Thanks, DD!
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Andre said 10:22PM on 1-22-2007
Dumbest thing I've seen today.
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Mark Fleser said 10:29PM on 1-22-2007
If he weighs the same as an iDuck he's an iWitch.
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BOB W said 10:45PM on 1-22-2007
Waste of time. Another reason not to watch MadTV anymore. Not nearly as funny as SNL's iPod send up.
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EJW94 said 12:47AM on 1-23-2007
In the begining Steve Jobs (Mad TV actor) is holding the iPhone upside down. WOW, does this steve jobs even know how to use it!?
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Phatmuther said 11:06PM on 1-22-2007
That was the worst thing I have seen in a long time.
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Jordan said 11:03PM on 1-22-2007
um... Steve doesn't wear belts...
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Dan Pourhadi said 11:09PM on 1-22-2007
I thought it was hilarious.
I was actually in the keynote, and about half-way through Jobs' demo we were all getting overwhelmed. He kept going and going and going. I made some comment to my friend about how Jobs had to sacrifice employees' children to the tech gods to produce it (hence the apologies and heart-felt "thank you"s at the end of the keynote ;)).
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jb said 11:13PM on 1-22-2007
I don't know...it borders on blasphemy, (uhhh, um, yeah), but I'm still laughing. :-)
I thought it was a funny bit.
My computer room is a wall to wall shrine to Macs, Apple II, NeXT, with posters on every wall, but I thought it was funny.
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Brett said 11:19PM on 1-22-2007
I actually thought that was quite amusing. The reality-distortion field of His Steveness, first hand.
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Laurie said 11:47PM on 1-22-2007
Thanks for having my back on this one, Dan ;)
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franko said 11:21PM on 1-22-2007
at first, i was thinking, "oh yeah, make fun of the hordes of apple geeks going into technology-fed spasms of joy...", but then it took the whole monty python turn and i found myself really enjoying it. don't anger steve, please! we don't need that kind of trouble!
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Spillz said 11:43PM on 1-22-2007
lol
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HobbesDoo said 12:21AM on 1-23-2007
You didn't like the iPad and you thought this is funny. Geez!
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Jonathan Tyler said 12:34AM on 1-23-2007
That was awesome. MadTV is hilarious.
And yes, the iPad was a little much. But still... Ha!
Eternal life on the iPhone...
... Will it cost extra monthly?
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Peter Whalen said 12:40AM on 1-23-2007
1. A certain percentage of the iPhone's sales should be donated to the cast of MadTV so they can take acting/improv lessons
2. Fred Armisen owns whoever that is
3. Too soon since salem to be laughing...general rule of thumb you have to wait 400 years from the time of a atrocity for it to be funny
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HS said 2:18AM on 1-23-2007
hehe Funny. And yes, halfway through the Keynote I was sold on the iPhone, and then th rest was just not interesting.. I was watching a MACworld keynote in hopes of some MAC-related news, and while I enjoyed the iPhone, that's not what Apple is to me..
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Dave said 4:18AM on 1-23-2007
This was way funnier and smarter then the crappy SNL parody! Not great. But at least it made me chuckle a couple of times.
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James said 6:53AM on 1-23-2007
My wife and I are huge fans of MadTV although it has dropped off a bit in recent years -- still way better than the tired SNL. I was in the audience at the keynote, and the beginning of the sketch was hilarious with the audience eating out of Steve's hand. Overall, the sketch was so-so. I just love the fact that the opening sketch of a major network show is a parody focusing on Apple and Steve Jobs. The attention is awesome!
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Adam Rice said 9:45AM on 1-23-2007
Now that's a Reality Distortion Field!
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Steve Mills said 1:20PM on 1-23-2007
Eh. SNL, MadTV, they're all unfunny municipal playhouse types whose overacting doesn't add to the [possible] humor. They're all Mike Myers/Will Ferrell clones, which is a pretty unfunny base to build from.
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