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Fonzie (Henry Winkler) discusses Apple iPhone on CBS Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Wednesday, June 27, 2007 - 03:58 PM EST

Henry Winker, aka Arthur Herbert "The Fonz" Fonzarelli, visits CBS Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson to discuss one of this summer's most anticipated events, the debut of the Apple iPhone:



[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "Jim U." for the heads up.]

MacDailyNews Take: No shark jumping here. "Aaay!" Two thumbs up!


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Jun 27, 07 - 02:59 pm Comment from: zerO

Finally an accurate report

Jun 27, 07 - 03:07 pm Comment from: TenaciousDNA

That didn't seem scripted or anything... I guess someone was smart enough to leverage iPhone hysteria to try and save a beleaguered late night show...

Jun 27, 07 - 03:13 pm Comment from: clyde

Finally the real reason to get an iPhone: looking at porn while driving...

Jun 27, 07 - 03:14 pm Comment from: Dutch

Fonzie is as funny as ever.

Jun 27, 07 - 03:17 pm Comment from: Traveller

That was almost cool before he brought up lame annoying song

Jun 27, 07 - 03:20 pm Comment from: Twisted Mac Freak

Maybe he was there to watch Craig Ferguson jump a shark?

Jun 27, 07 - 03:24 pm Comment from: montex

I bet Ballmer is going nuts over all the iPhone media buzz. Why didn't the media treat the Zune with as much fawning attention? (rhetorical)

And those execs at Verizon who turned down Apple and the iPhone can't be too happy either. I'm going to enjoy the schadenfreude all summer long!

Jun 27, 07 - 03:25 pm Comment from: Jeff

Scripted but still funny

Jun 27, 07 - 03:26 pm Comment from: Twisted Mac Freak

There's probably just a huge brown and red explosion stain and a disturbing monkey smell all over Ballmer's office.

Jun 27, 07 - 03:28 pm Comment from: plastikman

That's the best endorsement if I ever saw one.

Jun 27, 07 - 03:28 pm Comment from: CheekyGit

That's bloody funny right there.

Jun 27, 07 - 03:29 pm Comment from: No Squirt For You

Now all we need is "The Lords of Flatbush" on the iTunes Store.

Jun 27, 07 - 03:30 pm Comment from: Sam

unfortunate reference to porn

Jun 27, 07 - 03:31 pm Comment from: Sam

bad for the soul

Jun 27, 07 - 03:35 pm Comment from: BuriedCaesar

HEY - Ferguson ain't beleaguered. No way. He competes on his own terms, and quite effectively. And his monologues are WAY funnier than either Conan or Jimmy, simply because they are not scripted. Ever. It's better that way, IMO, too.

Back OT - that was a funny bit.

Jun 27, 07 - 03:39 pm Comment from: G-Man in B'ham

What did that teddy bar to to The Fonz.

Jun 27, 07 - 03:50 pm Comment from: Twisted Southern US Mac Freak

That there Craig shor duz talk funny.

LOL

Jun 27, 07 - 03:53 pm Comment from: Paul Zune's Schlong

Funny stuff - good ol' Henry Winkler.

Jun 27, 07 - 03:57 pm Comment from: Stefano Jobso

"There's probably just a huge brown and red explosion stain and a disturbing monkey smell all over Ballmer's office."

People talk about iPhone "hype", but it's not hype: it really is an amazing device, and people's interest in it is not marketing-driven, so much as driven by what it actually is in itself.

What did Monkey Boy expect? That people would spontaneously talk about the Surface if MS hyped it up a bit and fed talking-points to journalists who were either too lazy to look into what they were being shown or too "friendly" to Microsoft to care what nonsense they were recycling.

It's twenty-year old technology. It's five friggin cameras in a bathtub. It's the sort of thing amateurs have been building in their garages in their spare time. It monstrously oversized; it's clumsy; it only works in a darkened room. It's just a big ass table.

The Zune was about "hype". It was an advertising event, a feed- compliant-journalists-lines event, an astroturfing event. So was Vista. Few people give a flying fuck about either.

Jobs knows how to present, but it's the product that's the thing. iPhone has caught the public imagination. It's a cultural event.

Microshaft should try building something "insanely great", something that stands on its own merits, something people might actually want, lust after.

Jun 27, 07 - 04:00 pm Comment from: grigori

achingly unfunny, and obviously scripted to boot... the iPhone deserves better celeb endorsements...

Jun 27, 07 - 04:07 pm Comment from: Twisted Mac Freak

"It's five friggin cameras in a bathtub."

Man, oh man! I just laughed out loud! Thanks for that.

I think every MS Surface also comes with a tiny programmer wedged inside for debugging and motion tracking. Since he'll die within days your warranty is void after one week. It's Ballmer's secret plan for getting rid of the bottom 5% of employees.

Jun 27, 07 - 04:29 pm Comment from: Shogun

Wow. Scripted doesn't even describe it. Are those human beings or puppets?

Jun 27, 07 - 04:44 pm Comment from: zerO

@Sam
Fortunately the soul has no penis, so chill, it will be ok
I know, I commune with mine

Jun 27, 07 - 04:49 pm Comment from: Gil

MDN,

You owe Ebert and Roeper money now......

Jun 27, 07 - 04:58 pm Comment from: MysteryDude

I always watch the Late late show with graig, I liked part of the comdey but not totally unfortunatly. Graig Rocks!!!

Jun 27, 07 - 06:21 pm Comment from: Bartsimpsonhead

I wonder how much Craig softens his Scottish accent so that the American audience can understand him?

If he didn't, then they'd probably have to put sub-titles at the bottom of the screen.

And that clip's very funny, btw.

Jun 27, 07 - 08:51 pm Comment from: MCCFR

Actually, that's pretty much Craig's natural speaking voice.

When he was an improv stand-up in the early part of his career doing Bing Hitler, he faked a thicker Scottish accent that you could cut with a knife.

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