Tonight's guest on The Daily Show is Aaron Sorkin. The panelists on The Nightly Show are John Avlon, Jessica Kirson, and Joey Badass.
Aaron Sorkin
is an American screenwriter, producer, and playwright. His works include the Broadway plays A Few Good Men and The Farnsworth Invention; the television series Sports Night, The West Wing, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, and The Newsroom; and the films A Few Good Men, The American President, Charlie Wilson's War, The Social Network, Moneyball, and the upcoming Steve Jobs.He is on tonight, like Seth Rogen last night, to promote Steve Jobs
Set backstage at three iconic product launches and ending in 1998 with the unveiling of the iMac, Steve Jobs takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution to paint a portrait of the man at its epicenter.
I still don't know what to think of the film. Woz consulted on the film and likes it, so that is a plus.
Steve Wozniak: Shocked and amazed by Steve Jobs movieI still don't know if I will see it, maybe on DVD?I've actually seen two rough cuts. My impression was I was shocked and amazed at how good it was in the sense of professional filmmaking.
I usually go to a movie not looking for "do I like the story" as much as: "What is the quality that came out of the heads of the people that made it?"
In this case the filmmakers have done an award-winning job. The acting was just so realistic.
In some prior movies, I saw [the actors] simulating Steve Jobs, but they didn't really make me feel like I was in his head understanding what was going on inside of him - his personality.
This movie absolutely accomplishes that, and it's due to great acting, which obviously comes from great directing.Some people had been critical that Michael Fassbender doesn't look like Steve Jobs. What did he manage to do, then, to capture him?A lot of people think the face of Steve Jobs matters, but it's his brain, his head, the way he worked, how did he think, how did he act with people - that's important.
Michael does an incredible job with a tight script and for very much of it he's interfacing with Kate [Winslet, who plays Apple's marketing chief Joanna Hoffman], and the two of them are superb together.
It's believable that this is how things would have happened and went down, and I felt I was seeing the real Steve Jobs in there.
Of course, I have prosopagnosia where I don't really store faces. So, to me faces don't matter that much anyway.There's a tendency to mythologise successful people after their deaths. To what degree have we seen that with Jobs?Oh my gosh, even while Steve was alive [so was] the myth.
He became our hero because we have our iPhones, and he saw the way the world was going to evolve much earlier than others, so we love him.
But the mythology, even while he was alive, was extended back to make him that person from day one.
[People] try and make him a lot more right about things than he was and ignore what some of the real facts were.
The most incredible scene in the Sorkin movie is between Steve Jobs and [ex-Apple chief executive] John Sculley.
It goes back and forth at two points in time [with them] saying different things that add up to where the company stood and the difference between the two of them. And it was really just a business difference.See, the mythology is that Steve Jobs had this beautiful vision for the Macintosh and the board and John Sculley didn't buy into it.
No. Our entire company bought into that vision as the future for Apple.
It was just going to take at least three years to build until it could finally not lose money.
And John Sculley is the one who actually made the Macintosh successful because of believing in it.
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— The Nightly Show (@nightlyshow) October 6, 2015John Avlonis an American journalist and political commentator who is the editor in chief of The Daily Beast and a CNN political analyst. He is the author of Independent Nation: How Centrists Can Change American Politics, which critically appraises both traditional American centrism and the more recent radical centrism.
Jessica Kirsonhas been featured on various television shows, including, The Travel Channel, Comedy Central's "Premium Blend" and "Fresh Faces," Nickelodeon's "Sixth in the Suburbs," Noggin's "LOL," VH1's "Awesomely Bad" Shows, Oxygen's premier game show "Can You Tell?," Bravo's "The Great Things About Being," The Women's Television Network's "She's So Funny," NBC's "Last Comic Standing" Seasons 2 and 3, NBC's "Last Call With Carson Daly," NBC's "Why We Heart Vampires," Fox’s "The Dr. Oz Show," The Travel Channel’s "When Vacations Go Bust,” TV Guide Network, AXS TV, two appearances on NBC’s "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," two appearances on ABC’s "The View," Showtime's "White Boyz in the Hood,” and NBC's "Celebrity Apprentice." She also has a one hour special on the Logo Channel called "My Cookie's Gone" and has appeared on "The Joy Behar Show" on CNN-HLN numerous times. She just made her big screen debut in Nick Cannon’s "School Dance" with Jim Breuer and George Lopez.
Joey Badassis an American hip hop recording artist and rapper. Raised in Bed-Stuy, a neighbourhood of Brooklyn in New York City, he is a co-founder of the hip-hop collective Pro Era, with whom he has released three mixtapes. Joey released his debut mixtape, 1999, in June 2012 to critical acclaim and recognition, followed by Rejex in September, and Summer Knights on July 1, 2013. His debut studio album, B4.DA.$$, was released January 20, 2015.
This Week's Guest List
THE DAILY SHOW WITH TREVOR NOAH, Comedy Central
Tu 10/6: Aaron Sorkin
We 10/7: Evgeny Afineevsky
Th 10/8: Rachel Maddow
THE LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT, CBS
Tu 10/6: Bill Clinton, Billy Eichner, Florence and the Machine
We 10/7: Gina Rodriguez, Ben Bernanke, Tame Impala
Th 10/8: Cate Blanchett, Brian Chesky, Dartmouth University Football Dummy
Fr 10/9: James Corden, Shane Smith, HalseyCONAN, TBS
Tu 10/6: Ellen Page, Andy Kindler, Randy Liedtke
We 10/7: David Mizejewski & animals, Nasim Pedrad, Robert DeLong
Th 10/8: Artie Lange, Aaron SorkinJIMMY KIMMEL LIVE, ABC
Tu 10/6: Eric Stonestreet, Rose McIver, Jewel
We 10/7: Keanu Reeves, Guillermo del Toro, Thomas Rhett
Th 10/8: Lena Dunham, Darby Stanchfield, Don Henley
Fr 10/9: Matt Damon, Dr. Phil McGraw, Priyanka Chopra, FIDLAR (R 9/28/15)THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JIMMY FALLON, NBC
Tu 10/6: Lady Gaga, Ronda Rousey, Hailee Steinfeld
We 10/7: Kate Winslet, Norman Reedus
Th 10/8: Michael Fassbender, Brie Larson, Cee-Lo Green
Fr 10/9: Jeff Daniels, Whoopi Goldberg, Nelly