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Stephen Colbert and his iPad at the Grammys

Filed under: Odds and ends, Apple

It must be nice to be the host of your own popular Comedy Central show and a host on the Grammy Awards. Why? You get to play with an iPad.

No, it’s not one of Tim Meehan’s faux iPads – this was a working unit that flipped from portrait to landscape mode when Stephen Colbert pulled it out of his jacket… or pants. Enjoy this short piece of video from tonight’s Grammy Award ceremonies.

TUAWStephen Colbert and his iPad at the Grammys originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sun, 31 Jan 2010 22:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Steorn livestream to settle the case for overunity once and for all… or something like that

Steorn livestream to settle the case for overunity once and for all… or something like that originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Microsoft ditches Family Guy special… for being Family Guy

Face? Meet palm. Microsoft’s decided to pull out of its co-sponsoring of “Family Guy Presents: Seth & Alex’s Almost Live Comedy Show” after execs attending the taping came to the sudden conclusion that Family Guy-caliber jokes were to be told, tackling such topics as “deaf people, the Holocaust, feminine hygiene and incest.” We’re not sure how 10 years and over 120 episodes of offensive precedence bypassed Redmond’s radars, but man, that’s gotta be some strong personal bubble. A Microsoft representative said of the taping, “it became clear that the content was not a fit with the Windows brand.” The show will still air November 8th, pre-recorded Microsoft references in tow, but with a new as-of-yet unnamed sponsor. All we have of the now-doomed partnership is this brief video from the Windows “741″ student site — it’s after the break.

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Microsoft ditches Family Guy special… for being Family Guy originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:46:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Found Footage: Pull My Finger stands for freedom

Filed under: Found Footage, iPhone, App Store

I’ve got a soft spot in my comedy heart for The Daily Show’s Wyatt Cenac, one of the newer correspondents on the program; he often manages to give interview subjects just enough Colbertian leeway to wander into the danger zone, then lets them blunder about, bumping into the awkward silences to excellent effect.

That’s exactly what Cenac did this week when he interviewed the creators of iPhone fart apps Pull My Finger and iFart, who have a long-simmering feud over who gassed whom on the fart-app frontier. The whole thing is fine and funny… right up until the point that Pull My Finger developer Eric Stratton compares his app’s struggle against injustice to Jackie Robinson breaking the color line in baseball. That’s when it becomes deliciously, painfully hilarious. For the record, Stratton claims he was joking.

You can check out the video in the second half of the post. Nice work, Wyatt.

[via Mac OS Ken and AllThingsD]

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TUAWFound Footage: Pull My Finger stands for freedom originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sat, 25 Jul 2009 11:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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