Filed under: Humor, Steve Jobs, Found Footage
Found Footage: Steve introduces the iRack
Apple's increasing popularity is making Steve Jobs more recognizable outside of the usual circles of computer geeks. As a purveyor of pop culture, he's ripe for satire. SNL has aired some reasonably funny skits, but Mad TV really hits a homer with this skit: Steve introduces the "iRack." It doesn't really poke fun at Steve as much as use him as a tool for social commentary. It's really funny.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
bootleg robot said 4:34PM on 3-14-2007
Basically the least funny thing ever.
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Ed said 4:39PM on 3-14-2007
iHate it!
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derek said 4:50PM on 3-14-2007
that was their best skit... the rest were crap. one was like 20 min of two people fighting...
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Alex Cormier said 4:57PM on 3-14-2007
Better than SNL.
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Jon said 5:00PM on 3-14-2007
I think they should play that background music at every Stevenote.
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jP said 5:01PM on 3-14-2007
Some kind of funny, just because its so ridiculous. And un Apple. Looks more like a Windows announcement.
I really prefer:
-"It's an iHouse!"
-"But there's no Windows!"
-"Exactly MuaHaHaHaHaHaH!!"
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CarbonFree said 5:02PM on 3-14-2007
FOX actually let that through? Amazing!
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Josh H. said 5:10PM on 3-14-2007
thats more of a rip on pres bush isnt it? irack sounds like iraq, 20,00 more troops like money...lots of similarites...no plan...its kinda rippin on the war
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Justin said 10:45PM on 3-21-2007
You guys aren't getting i they are making fun of Prez Bush. Instead of taking out the soldiers in Iraq he puts more in, hence the term iRack-Iraq. So get the joke before you bash it. Personally I thought that this skit was very clever but not really that funny.
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Andreas Tellefsen said 5:36PM on 3-14-2007
I actually liked this. I've seen a lot of hate-comments since it aired, and I guess I found the last one they did (the iPhone) a bit more funny, but for political satire, this one really isn't all that bad.
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Martin said 11:43PM on 3-14-2007
I can't believe that this is a forum for Apple geeks and nobody yet has recognized the fact that the "iBook" that is shown in the skit is really a PowerBook. I guess they had trouble finding one or had difficulties reading the writing underneath the screen? But I guess it is just a skit and its primary goal was to make fun of Bush’s plan not showcasing Apple’s products, which by the way would have made it so much better. ☺
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Andreas Tellefsen said 5:38PM on 3-14-2007
I actually liked this. I've seen a lot of hate-comments since it aired, and I guess I found the last one they did (the iPhone) a bit more funny, but for political satire, this one really isn't all that bad.
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John Patron said 9:54PM on 3-14-2007
This is a pun on apple & Iraq situation. When Apple releases a product some people criticize it & it is sometime sunstable. Also Steve J is bush, That Apple Spokeswoman is probably laura bush, The audience is the American public & the new products well... u get it.
VERY IMPORTANT: STEVE JOBS IS A DEMOCRAT
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geezer said 6:11PM on 3-14-2007
I usually hate those MadTV Apple spoofs - but this one got me laughing :D
USA!USA!USA!USA!
Watch out for iRan! *lol*
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john said 6:43PM on 3-14-2007
If you listen closely, I think this sketch had a second meaning.
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KSB said 6:23PM on 3-14-2007
maybe the idea was funny, but it was horrible perfomed and shouldn't been about steve jobs and apple... poor poor madTV....
I do miss Arnold ... JALL JALL JALL
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Daniel D said 6:03PM on 3-14-2007
heh this was a very funny skit at the start and then I love how it changed into a dig at George Bush. Clever.
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Lance Fiasconaro said 7:12PM on 3-14-2007
Fantastic rip on President Bush.
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jen said 8:25PM on 3-14-2007
Dave you scoundrel! I gave you the exclusive on that link like two days ago and you said you were gonna linky-love me! :::Pout:::
Dave is a poopy head! (And for the right price I have photoshopped pics to prove it.)
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swarmofkillermonkeys said 9:01PM on 3-14-2007
Ah, MadTV!
Masterful, as always:
"There IS no exit... strategy."
That's a milk shooting out the nose line, with that precise timing.
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