CBS Late Late Show’s Craig Ferguson humorously praised Apple’s new iPhone and ripped Microsoft and their Zune in his monologue on January 9th:
This isn’t the first time Ferguson has slammed Microsoft’s Zune (from Nov. 17, 2006):
Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson: http://www.cbs.com/latenight/latelate/comedy/
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Matt” for the heads up.]
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Great Stuff & so true
“The Zune zucked.” LOL
Be back in a minute. I need to crack-a-lack a zune right now.
I Craig, you funny Irish potato man. You hit it here.
Loved the part about MS combining a phone with an iron. A few minutes later, Ballmer rushed to his office to shred some of his “innovation” notes.
<strike>From the giant, chairless desk of Steve Ballmer:
Combine a cellphone with an iron.</strike>
Ferguson is quite the refreshing breeze of humor given all the other dreck on late-night TV. He doesn’t use cue cards. He doesn’t do “jokes” – he just talks off the cuff, unscripted, for as long as it takes him. I saw the couple of times he tried the joke-pause-joke thing. It was BAD. Now he free-styles it, and is just completely off-the-wall funny. Every time.
Not surprised he sees the value in Apple and mercilessly skewers M$…
Hey, Eric,
Careful who you call “Irish” – Ferguson is a Scot.
In some circles them be fightin’ words…
Don’t you mean “iron-ovation” notes?
Irrespective of the Zune-bashing, Craig Ferguson is a brilliantly funny guy and the best talk-show host around, imo!
I didn’t see the humor at all. Or is it ‘humour’?
Your potential. Our passion.
paging Zune Tang…paging Zune Tang….
Someone chum the waters with troll bait…
Face it, Apple will never be able to produce anything as Crackalackin as the Zune.
The line that was funny because it was true was the one about the Zune being Microsoft’s attempt to “break the iPod’s Stranglehold on the iPod market.” That is exactly the situation. It is the iPod market, not the mp3 player market.
Your Potential. Our Crap.
I am waiting for Zune Tang to tell us how Microsoft makes the best irons….much better than the Apple-brand iron. It has Wi-Fi, a fake scroll wheel and can iron 22% more shirts than Apple.
Apple’s iron locks you in. Sure it’s used by 80% of the ironning public, but it locks you in to Apple’s vision of ironning.
Microsoft’s iron on the other hand is all about choice. With “Flattens-for-sure”, you can choose M$-partnered ironning boards, M$-partnered starch, M$-partnered fabric softener.
With “Flattens-for-Sure” you’re not locked into a single vendor like you are with Apple. Microsoft — “It’s all about choice.”
Oh wait, “Flattens-for-Sure” partners have been Microshafted.
Now you have to get all that stuff directly from Microsoft. But it’s still about choice. Choice and subscription-based ironning supplies.
It will only sell if it’s called an iRon
( I don’t usually mention the Magic Word, but it’s ‘white’ ! )
The Highlander speaks the truth!!!!
This guy is not funny.
That was so funny I Zuned my pants!
My breath smells brown.
Hilarious!
Puts a new spin on Extreme Ironing!
While you’re watching this video, also check out Craig Ferguson’s other commentary on the Zune at
. Also, priceless. My favorite quote: “The Zune is Bill Gates’ attempt to loosen iPod’s grip on the iPod market.”
MacDoc, that video is already at the top of this page. Eric, that guy is definately not Irish.