Comedy Central takes on the iPod
Anything as ubiquitous as the iPod is practically begging to be made fun of. "Saturday Night Live" alum David Spade took on the task with aplomb, doing a hilarious little riff on the music player during the latest episode of his Comedy Central show, "The Showbiz Show with David Spade."
"I'm getting a little tired of how everyone loves their iPod," he said, "how it's the future of entertainment, how they couldn't live without it. Do you really need to carry around the complete box set of Jethro Tull?"
Spade jabbed the gadget for its ever-shrinking size--"I've always wanted to watch TV on a screen smaller than my hand: 'I think I see the main character. Oh wait, never mind, that's just half a thumbprint on the screen that I can never get clean'"--and took a swipe at the bounty of available acccessories.
"How come our guys in Iraq can't get body armor, but I can get 16 different kinds of protective cases for this thing?" he asked. "I feel great walking by a homeless guy: 'Hey, look, my iPod has socks and you don't.'"
But perhaps the funniest line was an empathetic shoutout to those who have yet to jump on the iPod bandwagon. "God forbid you don't have an iPod at all...if you still carry around a portable CD player, people look at you like you're one of those candlemakers in Colonial Williamsburg."
A video of Spade's iPod observations is currently being featured on the show's home page.
Leslie Katz, senior editor of CNET's Crave, covers gadgets, games, and most other digital distractions. As a co-host of the CNET News Daily Podcast, she sometimes tries to channel Terry Gross. E-mail Leslie. 
