Wednesday, 22 September 2010

STEPHEN COLBERT IS SO FUNNY.

he's really on fire on this episode.

His guest is the CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt.

The CEO of Google. After Colb sits down and say his hello, he announces, "Thank you for coming on..so I could put another notch in my billionaire belt." And what amazes me is that Stephen was able to intimidate this man! Whatever that's about...

Awesome out-of-the-blue question Colbert posed: "At what point will Google's algorithm become self-aware and turn on its masters?"

Fantastic exchange:
Colbert: "Your slogan is... [searching in his cards]"
Schmidt: "Don't be evil."
Colbert: "'Don't be evil', yes. [beat] Google's stock right now is $513.46. [beat] How low do your stock shares have to drop before you say, '...OK, we're goin with evil'?"
Schmidt: "Never. We didn't go with evil when our stock was worth nothing.."
Colbert (overlapping, sounding pious): "All men are sinners..."
Schmidt (finally breaking slightly from the intimidation, with an intensely matter-of-fact tone): "We're a company."
Colbert (immediately): "Companies are people -- welcome to America."


Ahh, fantastic.

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