Stephen Colbert on iPhone ‘kill switch’ – plus bonus Microsoft Zune slam

In his “ThreatDown” segment, The Colbert Report’s Stephen Colbert (Comedy Central) called the iPhone the No. 1 threat in America, because Apple CEO Steve Jobs confirmed that the device includes a “kill switch.”

Killer iPhones: Your iPhone’s kill switch doesn’t remove undesirable software — it kills you. – Stephen Colbert

“I knew I should have gotten a Zune,” he said. “They can’t kill me — or do anything else.”

The Colbert Report: Killer iPhones:

Direct link to video here.

[Attribution: Seattle Post-Intelligencer.]

21 Comments

  1. The Zune is good for something. If you have the classic brown color, you can use it as a weapon. When attacked pull it out and show the attacker that you are going to throw it at them. They will think its POOP and run off. Who wants POOP thrown at them. No one, not even hardened criminals. Zune = simulated POOP deterrent.

  2. The joke itself (the one about the Zune) didn’t sound all that hillarious when I read it. After seeing Colbert’s delivery, though, it was a riot!

    Nothink like free publicity!

  3. I remember when someone brought me seven of these to play with and wanted me to use them all in a row. I never trusted that person again because their request was so abusive and line-crossing. Then they tried this a second time.

  4. Colbert rules! ” width=”19″ height=”19″ alt=”smile” style=”border:0;” />
    Apple couldn’t have wished for this kind of publicity…, and it’s funny , even to a wannabee geek like me…

    In case anyone would care,… the Dailyshow is the very show that re-assures me somehow that the US are not a complete idiocracy just yet.
    Greetings from Belgium!*
    (* google it, it’s in allegedly somewhere in Europe…” width=”19″ height=”19″ alt=”wink” style=”border:0;” />

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