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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...

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

Fonzie is as funny as ever.

That was almost cool before he brought up lame annoying song

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

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!

Scripted but still funny

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

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

That's bloody funny right there.

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

unfortunate reference to porn

bad for the soul

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.

What did that teddy bar to to The Fonz.

That there Craig shor duz talk funny.

Funny stuff - good ol' Henry Winkler.

"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.

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

"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.

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

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

MDN,

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

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

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.

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.