{"id":1033,"date":"2010-05-12T09:23:31","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T17:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yourservice.com\/blog\/?p=1033"},"modified":"2010-05-12T09:24:36","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T17:24:36","slug":"steve-jobs-forces-ellen-to-apologize-for-being-funny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yourservice.com\/blog\/?p=1033","title":{"rendered":"Steve Jobs forces Ellen to apologize for being funny."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week on the Ellen show, Ellen showed a clip of her trying to use an iPhone. It was a funny and self-deprecating bit. The next day on her show, she stated that everyone loved her bit, but &#8220;You know who didn&#8217;t like it? That&#8217;s right, Apple.&#8221; she went on to say &#8220;They thought it made the iPhone difficult to use&#8221;. She then apologized for her bit.<\/p>\n<p>I am sorry, but it was a JOKE! I would think that Apple would recognize this and keep their lawyers locked up. I assume that Apple has a lot of say in what Ellen says on her show as the very next show she gave away iPads to several of her game contestants.<\/p>\n<p>At least the bit is still on the web site:<\/p>\n<p><object id=\"embed\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"316\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"align\" value=\"middle\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"flashVars\" value=\"mediaKey=0cf48db6-9c29-4622-bb2b-31799f5b907c&amp;image=http:\/\/wbads.vo.llnwd.net\/o25\/u\/telepixtv\/ellen\/us\/video\/2010-04\/30\/043010_iphone_still.jpg&amp;origin=embed\" \/><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#ffffff\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/wbads.vo.llnwd.net\/o25\/u\/telepixtv\/ellen\/us\/video\/player\/embed.swf\" \/><param name=\"name\" value=\"embed\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"mediaKey=0cf48db6-9c29-4622-bb2b-31799f5b907c&amp;image=http:\/\/wbads.vo.llnwd.net\/o25\/u\/telepixtv\/ellen\/us\/video\/2010-04\/30\/043010_iphone_still.jpg&amp;origin=embed\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week on the Ellen show, Ellen showed a clip of her trying to use an iPhone. It was a funny and self-deprecating bit. The next day on her show, she stated that everyone loved her bit, but &#8220;You know who didn&#8217;t like it? That&#8217;s right, Apple.&#8221; she went on to say &#8220;They thought it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[24,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-items-from-the-quibbler","category-peeves"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yourservice.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yourservice.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yourservice.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yourservice.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yourservice.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1033"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.yourservice.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1035,"href":"https:\/\/www.yourservice.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033\/revisions\/1035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yourservice.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yourservice.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yourservice.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}