Robin Williams Blows Your Siri Impression Out Of The Water

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Alexia Tsotsis is the co-editor of TechCrunch. She attended the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA, majoring in Writing and Art, and moved to New York City shortly after graduation to work in the media industry. After four years of living in New York and attending courses at New York University, she returned to Los Angeles in... → Learn More

Wednesday, November 30th, 2011

If you’ve already seen this, watch it again. Here’s veteran comedian and Mrs. Doubtfire star Robin Williams on the Ellen Show talking about “the new future” and bringing up the technology du jour, Siri. I mean just the fact that this is happening is absurd, but then, then …

Commenter Peter Kjeldsen puts it best:

“You have the normal Robin being gentle and ordinary fun.. then he goes in to french Siri mode, gets a laugh and that is when this man starts rolling.. there is no off switch when he does that… LOOK LOOK AND THEN PAINT.”

My favorite part is “Why are you looking at a phone? LIVE YOUR LIFE …”

Priceless advice.

Via Vic Gundotra


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Company: Siri
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Siri is now a product of Apple Corp. Siri is a virtual personal assistant incorporated as a feature of Apple iPhones beginning with the 4S generation. Siri was originally developed by SRI International. SRI spun off Siri, Inc., in 2007, and this company launched a personal assistant app in February 2010. Siri, Inc., was acquired by Apple in 2010, and in October 2011 Apple announced that the iPhone 4S would be using this technology.

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