John Hodgman talks about being the PC

In the latest episode of This American Life, John Hodgman gives a hilarious overview of his newfound fame playing the PC in Apple’s high-profile ad campaign. Here’s the episode’s home page. (Click on “free download” to get the MP3, or “full episode” to stream it. The segment begins at 8:20.) He opens by relating an anecdote about visiting Hollywood as a boy and being approach by a “small human dressed as Charlie Chaplin,” who tries to get Hodgman to kiss him. “At the time,” he says, “I had no idea why someone would expect a complete stranger to want to kiss them on the cheek. But now I understand, because now I am on television. Now my life has glamour.” (This despite the fact that John realizes he is “older and fatter and more jowly than most people who are making their careers on TV.”) But fame turns out to be a double-edged sword, to say the least—particularly when he visits the Apple store in SoHo. Via Adland.

—Posted by Tim Nudd

April 16, 2007 in John Hodgman | Permalink