CBS’s Late Show with David Letterman featured “Top 10 Excuses of the Guy Who Lost the iPhone Prototype” on last night’s show (April 21, 2010):
Direct link to video via CBS here.
MacDailyNews Take: And AT&T takes another roundhouse right in the kisser! (As they laugh their way to the bank.)
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You know a product is hot when comedy writers pen quips about mishaps related to it. The faster the penmanship the more desparate the deliverers of said penmanship appear to be!
How ironic, that this clip is about Apple handhelds, and yet, it isn’t compatible with them.
That’s funny, especially no 1.
And Apple/ATT continue to get a lot of free mileage over this soon to be converted R&D;to Marketing dept genius.
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Even Rush Limbaugh was discussing this lost iPad event yesterday.
(Of course mentioning that will turn into a heated political discussion.)
He is not funny. He is old and crabby.
can someone transcribe the top 10? i can’t see it here.
To precis the top ten for you,
Who cares, iPhone is on AT&T so it doesn’t work anyway.
I have an idea MDN, if you want to support HTML5… stop posting Flash videos!!!!
Letterman is not funny, Never has been!!
I agree with “the other steve jobs”. Give some love to those of us stuck here at work with a PC so old and crappy that I get 1-2 fps.
Does David Letterman affect my life?
To use his words, “no, I couldn’t care less!”
Maybe that’s why Jay is beating the iPants off of him.
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ABC News reporter and NightLine host Ted Koppell (for those of you old enough to remember him) once famously said, “If you are unfortunate enough to find yourself as the subject of David Letterman’s Top Ten List, you’re toast.”
Adieu, Gray. Good luck at your next job.
A transcription as requested:
10. Couldn’t call Apple for help because I lost my iPhone.
9. I’m more of a Kindle guy.
8. You mean besides being drunk out of my mind?
7. Distraught [that] Kate Gosselin kicked off dancing with the stars
6. Thought there was an App that would whisk it back to my house
5. It must have fallen out of my iPants
4. Volcanic ash! Run!
3. Lets just blame Goldman Sachs
2. At least I didn’t lose my finger like that iPad guy
1. It didn’t work anyways, it uses AT&T;
When Letterman said he’d dropped a few things in his time, the first thing I thought was … yeah, his pants!
Ta-boom-ching … I’ll be here all week.
“I have an idea MDN, if you want to support HTML5… stop posting Flash videos!!!!”
Perhaps you missed the link underneath to request that CBS support HTML5.
@ Jacob.
Thanks. My ad blocker stops this video.
Hmmm. Dave seemed to be in a mood that day.
I think when Apple releases the next iPhone they should let the developer bring it out – to show no hard feelings…that would be a woot…
Cannot view this “funny” clip on my iPhone!
Where’s the link to have CBS stop supporting Letterman. Apparently he can’t distinguish between “funny” and “just mean”. Nothing is quite as funny as kicking somebody who is down and can’t fight back, apparently. Letterman is most of the reason I don’t watch CBS…ever.
muchas danke, Jackob!
The Letterman folks spelled “whisk” wrong and wrote “wisk” on the screen!
It’s rare to see typos on network TV shows. Not so rare here on MDN
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Not that funny, except for maybe #6 and #1.
What’s Letterman’s comments about a guy losing a finger all about?
Q: How do tell if Letterman or Leno have been standing behind you recently?
A: If you were in front of Letterman there’d be a fresh “I’m a doofus” sign, taped to your back. If you were in front of Leno there’d be a fresh dagger protruding from your back.