Stephen Colbert interviewed Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak on The Colbert Report yesterday:
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Jim” for the heads up.]
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What is hilarious is that Stephen Colbert’s character is based on Bill O’Reilly. So when you characterize him as “a snide asshole that makes a living deriding anything that moves” you are actually talking about an impression of Bill O’Reilly. Ha! Now THAT’S comic genius
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Um yeah…
Are you equating “any criticism of Colbert” with “pro-Bush/pro/FOXNews/Pro-Bill O’Reilly” or something similarly asinine?
I’m anything but an Republican or BushCo supporter. Eff them all HARD.
But Colbert is a one-trick pony. Hm, so is Woz. I guess it WAS the perfect interview, since it highlighted both of their respective suckage and lack of talent now that they are into their 16th minute of fame.
Alternate book titles:
“iWoz somebody once”.
Or:
“How Steve Jobs Saved Apple Computer While I Ate Twinkies And Played Segway Polo”
(Who wants to bet that those that are so warm and cuddly about this interview, or Woz in general, are all 45 year old 400LB programmers?)
Oh come one – okay, the interview was pretty weird, and Woz may be pretty eccentric and a bit oddball, but at least give the guy the RESPECT he deserves. This is a guy who’s done more for the world than either Jobs or Colbert. Woz has been involved in charities and helping kids for decades. What have you haters given to the world apart from your snyde, unthoughtful remarks on sites like this?
Read a bit about Woz and then you might be able to have an opinion, suckwads.
The trouble starts when Woz creepily says how great it is to be “close” to Colbert… but then it REALLY starts when Colbert pretends not to know what podcasting is.
By the time Colbert looks at Woz and says “you’re a f*cking idiot, aren’t you” (to the tune of ‘you really invented computers?’), it’s hit rock bottom.
And the joke book thing? Get a media coach, Woz, please.
MDN word: before. ie, I liked Woz much better before I saw this clip.
Woz sounded like Elmer Fudd, he is such a dork-nerd, I wonder why doesn’t he do electronics again?
I think his prank of using a metal credit card on flights is annoying on many levels, if he tried it while wearing brownish skin colour makeup, now that would be funny.
“I’ve read some of the other Steve Jobs books bio’s, and one time they said Steve Jobs was working for HP and was asigned to make a motherboard for something with a certain amount of transistors. Steven jobs had no idea how to make it, and was crying or showed worry on his face. Woz saw that and said he can help out. Woz ends up finishing the assignment and did it in one night (week project to finish). The funny part was he doubled the amount of transitors that was needed. When jobs gave it to his bosses they were very impressed. I think that was the time Jobs said that he was going to give him 50/50 split on the money for that project, and jobs gave WOz $400 to jobs $5000. Thats when Woz cried for days cause Jobs would do something like that. Pretty smart guy at his time.
<u>Actual incident:</u> Jobs was working for Atari, and was aked to design the circuit board for the arcade game Breakout. It was technically over his head, so he turned to Woz for help. Woz was still working full-time for HP at the time, so he pulled four all-nighters and did the job in 42 chips. Jobs then proceeded to rip Woz off. Woz wasn’t hurt over the money in particular, but really by the fact that Jobs had lied to him. In retrospect, he said he would have done it for a quarter – he loved the pure challenge of it.