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Tim Cook to Appear on 'Late Show with Stephen Colbert' September 15

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Just under a week after Apple's "Hey Siri" event, Tim Cook will appear on the new Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Tuesday, September 15, the late night host revealed on Twitter. Colbert's announcement included a picture of him "using" Siri on his Apple Watch to remind him of the interview.

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"Siri, put Apple CEO Tim Cook on my calendar for Tuesday, Sept. 15. Oh, and come up with some questions to ask him." pic.twitter.com/mXutum0Bp6 - Stephen Colbert (@StephenAtHome) September 12, 2015
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Colbert's Late Show has made an effort to not only speak with celebrities like George Clooney, but also politicians like Vice President Joe Biden and tech CEOs like Tesla's Elon Musk and Uber's Travis Kalanik. Thus far, Colbert's interviews with tech luminaries have seen him ask both pointed questions, like why Uber is pursuing self-driving vehicles if it claims to be creating better jobs for taxi drivers, and sillier ones, like if Musk is a super villain. It's likely Cook's interview will broach Apple's newly announced products: the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus, the new Apple TV and the iPad Pro.

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert airs every weeknight at 11:30 p.m. on CBS, with the show uploading both interviews and extended interviews on its YouTube channel the morning after.

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Stephen Colbert is doing a great job thus far. I am sure his interview with Cook will be entertaining. Bet there will be questions about the Apple Car.
 
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I watched the first few episodes but gave up on him. He's a horrible interviewer and spent most of his time interrupting his guests. A few of them like Elon Musk and Scarlett Johansson seemed genuinely annoyed with his behavior with Johansson even going so far as to tell him to "Stop it!".
 
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jdillings said:
I watched the first few episodes but gave up on him. He's a horrible interviewer and spent most of his time interrupting his guests. A few of them like Elon Musk and Scarlett Johansson seemed genuinely annoyed with his behavior with Johansson even going so far as to tell him to "Stop it!".
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I saw that show. I've seen them all so far. Scarlett Johansson appeared on his Comedy Central show many times. I'm quit sure she said that in jest.

Having Tim on the show should be interesting considering he's probably wanted him on his old show many times.
 
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JeffyTheQuik said:
Should be fun to :apple:Watch!
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It'll be interesting for sure. Steve Jobs was offered talk show spots dozens of times. Early in his career, he didn't see any advantage to them. Steve even turned down Johnny Carson. Story goes, that Johnny was like, "Who the hell is he to turn me down?!?" where Steve somehow said he did not want to sit on a couch with a bunch of clueless celebrities or worst, the ending guest that may get bumped. Carson, Donahue, Oprah, Letterman, Leno ... Steve turned them all down. Be interesting to see why Tim took this gig. Apple Music may be influencing the executive crew more than thought.
 
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Wow... hopefully they don't create a ultra-lame vortex of marketing boredom that destroys humanity: the main characters of the two lamest events this week, together... that can't be good.

It's no news that Apple keynotes have hit rock bottom for a while, so no need to explain.

As for Colbert, I used to love The Colbert Report, and admired Stephen Colbert for it. It gave the impression that he stood for something, regardless of the character he played. But after watching his first week at the Late Show, I was incredibly disappointed. The show so far has been nothing short of crap in almost every possible way - competing against Jimmy Fallon for the dumbest TV audience ratings - coming out as another lame attention-seeking, improvised sellout.

Expect nothing but sadness...
 
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Not a fan of Tim Cook speaking in public as he has nothing new to say. But why should he? He's a COO who's taken over as CEO. He didn't found Apple. He's never worked in engineering or software development. He knows how to squeeze money out of customers and materials. Every time I see him I think he should be hawking Perdue chicken instead of technology products. He doesn't say anything that means anything in interviews.

I remember the days of watching and rewatching keynotes. This last one was like sitting through a business meeting. Incremental updates are fine, but listening to the saccharin fawning over them is just as tiring as it would be if you were in a business meeting with a manager trying to jazz you up about some new company initiative. If they used a few less superlatives and cut the presentation time to a quarter of what it was (easy thing to axe: the Gilt Apple TV app), it would have been fine.

The only moment that seemed slightly real and entertaining was Eddy Cue swaggering out like a brassy New Yorker visiting Las Vegas, with his paunch proudly protruding from his gaudy shirt. But then he started talking.
 
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swingerofbirch said:
Not a fan of Tim Cook speaking in public as he has nothing new to say. But why should he? He's a COO who's taken over as CEO. He didn't found Apple. He's never worked in engineering or software development. He knows how to squeeze money out of customers and materials. Every time I see him I think he should be hawking Perdue chicken instead of technology products. He doesn't say anything that means anything in interviews.
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Agreed. Plus cook makes plenty of money for apple, but he's quite irritating to watch. I stopped watching apple events and just see what came out afterwards. I feel the same about colbert, so fugedaboudit. Put me in the surprised if he goes more than one year camp.

Now, cue the bots posting "if you don't like to watch cook then why buy apple products". Because using apple products has nothing to do with fawning over cook or ives every time they make an appearance.
 
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Agreed. Plus cook makes plenty of money for apple, but he's quite irritating to watch. I stopped watching apple events and just see what came out afterwards. I feel the same about colbert, so fugedaboudit. Put me in the surprised if he goes more than one year camp.

Now, cue the bots posting "if you don't like to watch cook then why buy apple products". Because using apple products has nothing to do with fawning over cook or ives every time they make an appearance.
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Plus I've been hearing rumors that is new show is very lackluster and kind of boring as well.
 
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