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Here's What Happened When Steve Jobs Called Jon Stewart After He Made Fun Of Apple On TV

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Former Apple CEO and cofounder Steve Jobs wasn't too pleased when Jon Stewart poked fun at Apple back in 2010.

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After the tech blog Gizmodo found a prototype of the iPhone 4 sitting in a bar four years ago, Stewart teased Apple in a skit called "Appholes." The segment specifically focused on how Apple reacted to the incident.

"So we did a whole bit about what the f--k is happening in the world," Stewart said in his recent appearance on the Howard Stern Show in which he recalled the conversation. "Bill Gates is curing malaria and Apple is kicking people's doors in; the whole thing is upside down."

The blog 9to5Mac found a recording of Stewart telling Stern all about it on YouTube. 

The next day, Stewart receieved a phone call from Apple. Stewart was a bit surprised to hear that Steve Jobs had actually called him.

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"I was like 'what?' It was one of those things where you thought he [Jobs] could actually just communicate to you through the computer," he told Stern jokingly. 

Stern asked Stewart how long the phone call lasted, which Stern likened to "bull riding" at a rodeo. Jobs, surprisingly, didn't react as harshly as you might expect. 

"It was actually the worst because he was really nice," Stewart said.

Stewart and Jobs had talked in the past and were actually friends, so Jobs was just surprised that he didn't call him before running the segment. Check out the video below to hear Stewart's recollection of the conversation.

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