Filed under: Found Footage, iPhone, App Store
Found Footage: Pull My Finger stands for freedom
I've got a soft spot in my comedy heart for The Daily Show's Wyatt Cenac, one of the newer correspondents on the program; he often manages to give interview subjects just enough Colbertian leeway to wander into the danger zone, then lets them blunder about, bumping into the awkward silences to excellent effect.
That's exactly what Cenac did this week when he interviewed the creators of iPhone fart apps Pull My Finger and iFart, who have a long-simmering feud over who gassed whom on the fart-app frontier. The whole thing is fine and funny... right up until the point that Pull My Finger developer Eric Stratton compares his app's struggle against injustice to Jackie Robinson breaking the color line in baseball. That's when it becomes deliciously, painfully hilarious. For the record, Stratton claims he was joking.
You can check out the video in the second half of the post. Nice work, Wyatt.
[via Mac OS Ken and AllThingsD]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Joel Comm said 12:30PM on 7-25-2009
You HAVE to know that this is all TV... it's setup.
Read the full story at http://www.joelcomm.com/behind_the_scenes_of_the_daily_1.html
Joel
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Jansperus said 12:49PM on 7-25-2009
Thanks for that! I knew that the Daily Show did edit interviews at the expense of the interviewees, but I didn't realize to what extent they did. Anyway, the whole video was great.
Ryan Trevisol said 1:00PM on 7-25-2009
I don't care that it's all set up. I still love Wyatt Cenac's bits.
FightTheFuture said 12:36PM on 7-25-2009
it's pretty cool to see the app store featured on a daily show segment.
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