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You know how it goes. The dumpy guy is supposed to be the PC and the cool guy is the Mac. Right? David Letterman decided to redefine the Mac vs PC conflict, enlisting Chris Elliott to play Mac. Here's Letterman's take on the whole phenomenon. Let's just say that Mac doesn't make out quite so well as he usually does. And Chris Elliott is no Justin Long.
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Quix said 12:10PM on 5-16-2007
Wow, I've seen a lot of lame spoofs on these commercials, but that may have been the lamest.
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franko said 12:15PM on 5-16-2007
i agree, Quix. i love the ads, and i love chris elliott, but man, that was LAME.
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Mark Newhouse said 12:22PM on 5-16-2007
A second one...
http://youtube.com/watch?v=jdyhUHnuUvw
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v said 12:24PM on 5-16-2007
was i supposed to laugh?
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ryan said 12:25PM on 5-16-2007
that wasn't even funny....
=(
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YodaMac said 12:42PM on 5-16-2007
Wait... I thought anyone getting hit in the crotch was automatically funny?.... Or maybe that's just me. :)
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SjG said 12:47PM on 5-16-2007
This whole ad campaign has been very successful and all, but when even the spoofs get boring... well, maybe they should move on to a new campaign.
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Jason said 1:38PM on 5-16-2007
Parody ads using Ruby on Rails => http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQbuyKUaKFo .
There's going to be four total. The first three are already up.
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Thomas said 2:17PM on 5-16-2007
I prefer the second one, if only for the way Chris Elliot says: "My Balls" and " You kicked my penis"
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BorwncoatJedi said 2:35PM on 5-16-2007
Letterman jumped the shark when he moved to CBS
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Eric Chiu said 3:50PM on 5-16-2007
is hey trying to convey the idea that all mac users are gay?
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j.holtslander said 5:15PM on 5-16-2007
I guess that's what happens when Viacom and MS are in business together.
Viacom owns CBC and Late Show and Letterman. MS and Viacom have interests in each other.
See: http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/viacom-microsoft-extend-video-licensing/story.aspx?guid=%7BEA597CB0-973B-4EBA-8F06-65D9CD570B37%7D
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pumpkinshirt said 5:25PM on 5-16-2007
Those weren't that funny, I agree, but on Letterman that's often the POINT. It's meta-funny. or not, depending on your tastes.
Anyone who suggests that CBS's corporate interest dictates or even influences Letterman's comic decisions though, undertands nothing about the man or his show.
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Kale Langley said 6:40PM on 5-16-2007
Nah the POINT is that Letterman and his show is not funny. and he's old. But Conan O'Brian, there's a funny man. But he might be in need of an apple tv : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMFYOzg_VWY
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Johnny Thrash said 6:58PM on 5-16-2007
That was just plain stupid... but what do you expect from stupid ole Letterman.
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SAPO!! said 4:19AM on 5-17-2007
stop nagging and bragging, and use some humour!
Letterman on Bill Gates here, btw: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_o9isZY5h0
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sam said 5:04AM on 5-17-2007
unfunniest ... knock off ... ever.
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kheller said 1:18AM on 5-18-2007
some of the spoofs out there are funny. this one wasn't.
and the fact that letterman can't tell which one is the mac and which one is the pc despite every commercial beginning with "Hello, I'm a Mac. And I'm a PC", maybe those heart bypasses are starting to make letterman a bit lacking in the intelligence area (not to mention hilarity).
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