Watch, just watch. Stephen Colbert, America’s favorite persnickety alter ego,
breaks face as he nears the end of tonight’s tribute to Steve Jobs, a man who
most of us never met, but whose death a lot of us — for many many reasons – are
sad about tonight, and probably tomorrow, and quite likely the next day, etc.
Colbert digs through his show archives to present an evolving portrait of Apple
products as a hot commodity, quipping, “No one else could make me beg quite
like him; ‘Apple, what part of ‘Give me a free iPhone ‘don’t you
understand?”’Come on Apple, give me one through the TV, I know you have the
technology.’”
Later on Colbert, who is the (self-described) “first non-Apple person to have
an iPad” recounts what it was like to preview and present the device months
before launch at the 52nd Grammy Awards, revealing email he received from Jobs
himself afterwards,”I was one of the few people who could call Steve Jobs a
close friend — in that he communicated with me once.”
The communication?
“Sweet!
Thanks,
Steve”
To which Colbert, breaking character and with a 100% sincerity, proceeded to
respond while live on-air:
“Right back at ya!
Thanks for everything.”
Indeed.
Crunchbase
STEVE JOBS
Person: Steve Jobs
Website:
Companies: Pixar, NeXT, Apple
Steve Jobs was the co-founder and CEO of Apple and formerly Pixar. Steve Jobs
was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin to Joanne Simpson and a Syrian father. Paul
and Clara Jobs of Mountain View, California then adopted him. In 1972, Jobs
graduated from Homestead High School in Cupertino, California and enrolled in
Reed College in Portland, Oregon. One semester later, he had dropped out, later
taking up the study of philosophy and foreign cultures. Steve Jobs had a
deep-seated interest in...
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