Funny or Die Releases Teaser Trailer for 'iSteve'

[samcraig]

The best parodies are the ones that play it seriously. See Spinal Tap for a good example.

That movie was magical and revolutionary. They innovated the "11"

 

[buddhistMonkey]

Steve Jobs would never have approved of this trailer, mainly because of the horrible kerning.

 

[CapnJackGig]

Brilliant. Joke subject matter deserves a joke movie. Absolutely brilliant.

 

[imageWIS]

I think that Facebook is releasing a phone is funnier.

 

[kalsta]

Great trailer. And evidently, just subtle enough to confuse most MacRumors readers. Not sure if they'll be able to sustain that style of parody over a film-length duration, but I for one am looking forward to it.

 

[12dylan34]

For anyone unfamiliar with Funny or Die, their "films" are usually meant to be funny because of their corniness and low production value. I can't imagine that this will deviate from that all too much.

 

[thefourthpope]

You got it.

I get it!
http://www.cracked.com/video_18540_internet-party-why-nobody-gets-anything-done-web.html

 

[M87]

I, for one, think it's going to be ****ing awesome.

 

[Judas1]

The trailer was pretty funny. But what's even funnier is reading the comments of folks here who have no idea why the trailer was funny. Definitely looking forward to it.

 

[CGagnon]

Wow, condescension, I feel honoured.

I'm sure it's more likely to be nothing to do with starting with a lowercase letter to ape the product-naming strategy, and you haven't read too much into it so that's okay.

I was not trying to be condescending. Grow some thicker skin

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No it isn't. Drop casing the first consonant? That's no leet speak dialect I've ever seen.

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No, it is a reference to iPad, iPod, iMac and so on....

That must be why only the first letter is lowercase in jOBS, whereas in iPad, iPad, iMac, etc, it's every letter except for the second. Great point, Risco.

 

[powers74]

Or we just have higher standards!

Lol probably!

 

[typeadam]

Lol.. Pretty funny for what it is.. I'll watch it..