In what might charitably be called the most toothless and limp parody this side of your dentureless grampa doing a timely Grover Cleveland impersonationation right before nap time, Ellen DeGeneres went on her talk show on Monday to poke fun at the iPhone 3Gs.
Ellen’s hilarious gag? When she wants to send a text message, she can’t do it through the “Maps” application. The punchline? The iPhone’s hard to use!
I know. Milquetoast crumbled up into comedic pablum, then defecated upon and labeled tiramisu.
While the execution was indisputably offensive to the entire platonic concept of humor, it’s hard to imagine a person who would actually be “offended” by the actual joke… but apparently, that person works at Apple, because Ellen followed the bit the next day with a formal apology for the gag, accompanied by a tortuous re-airing of the original bit which garnered even fewer forced laughs from the audience than it had the day before.
I’m not sure what’s more humorless here. Ellen, a professional comedian (who I actually like), puckering up and birthing the thin stream of odorless fart that became her “iPhone 3Gs” parody or the dessicated 394 year old grandmother working at Apple who decided to get the vapors when she smelled it.
