Actor Justin Long’s “Get a Mac” commercials with John Hodgman were a bona fide hit, numbering in the dozens from 2006 to 2009. Long played a relaxed, innovative Mac while Hodgman portrayed a stodgy, complaining PC. But some of the best ones never ran because Apple co-founder Steve Jobs rejected them for one surprising reason: They were too funny. “I noticed that some of the funniest ones would never air,” Long told host Lola Ogunnaike in a clip of the show above. “Well, it’s because he thought it would detract from the point of the commercial,” Long replied.

Source: Huffington Post May 28, 2019 02:37 UTC