Taiwanese Ad Featuring Fake Steve Jobs: Funny or Offensive?

Taiwanese Ad Featuring Fake Steve Jobs: Funny or Offensive?

Published: February 01, 2012 @ 12:16 pm
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By Dan Bloom

A Taiwanese computer firm called Action Electronics has released a TV ad on Taiwanese television with American-born-Chinese comedian named Ah-Ken posing as Steve Jobs and hawking a new product called "Action Pad."

In the popular commercial, Ah-Ken sports the late Apple co-founder's  signature black T-shirt and blue jeans, but now he dons a white-haired wig with angel wings on his back and a halo. The apparently heavenly Jobs is selling a new kind of tablet pad, made in Taiwan and marketed by Action Electronics.

The ad was meant to be both funny and humorous -- but is it?

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Dan Bloom is a freelance writer based in Asia since 1991. During a five-year stint in Tokyo, he covered the triumphs (and occasional failures) of Hollywood movies in Japan and interviewed American actors passing through Tokyo on film promotion tours, including Billy Crystal, Robin Williams and Kevin Costner.

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