Remember those “Get a Mac” commercials that Apple ran in the opening decade of the 2000s? And how they were pretty funny? Turns out, if not for Steve Jobs, they would have been a lot funnier.
In a new interview with People TV’s “Couch Surfing,” actor Justin Long—the hip “Mac Guy” who regularly traded quips with the uptight “PC Guy,” played by John Hodgman—said some of the commercials were too funny for TV.
“One in particular, I remember, Zach Galifianakis played, like, a drunken Santa Claus, and I was dying to see that one,” Long said. But it never aired. So he asked Apple why not. Cupertino’s answer?
About 300 “Get a Mac” commercials were shot, but only 66 ever aired, between May 2006 and October 2009.
It’s hard to argue that then-CEO Jobs, a notorious perfectionist, was wrong—the ads helped reinvigorate Apple’s Mac sales, at least until the company turned its focus toward the iPhone and iPad around the end of the decade.
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