Bruce Willis, self-proclaimed "devout fan" of TiVo

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Bruce Willis, self-proclaimed "devout fan" of TiVo

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On tonight's Daily Show, Bruce Willis seemed a bit off kilter (drunk or high? both?) but spent a few lucid minutes proclaiming his love of TiVo, saying he's a huge fan of both the Daily Show and his TiVo that lets him catch the show.

Here's a 20Mb MPEG2 excerpt from the show.

by Matt Haughey March 10, 2005 in TiVo

Comments

I'd vote for 'hung over' - he did say that he 'lost a few hours' around 05:30 that morning, and that he'd blown off the morning show he was supposed to be on. And he said he was in the same clothes he'd been in the previous night, and that Jon should 'roll with him' sometime.

I think he was out partying all night. ;-)

Posted by: MegaZone at Mar 10, 2005 1:06:04 AM

Why haven't we heard any anecdotes from the tivo employees who've had frustrated tech support phone-calls from celebrities? We all know, there *have* to be some! Where are you people with the stories!?

Posted by: Joel at Mar 10, 2005 7:00:41 AM

My QuickTime Player app won't play the video.

Am I missing some codecs perhaps?

l'il help?

Posted by: Dennis Wurster at Mar 10, 2005 8:56:20 AM

Yeah, Dennis quicktime requires a commercial mpeg2 plugin codec. You can play it in free open source mplayer and vlc clients (just google for them to find downloads)

Posted by: Matt Haughey at Mar 10, 2005 10:02:39 AM

Um, I thought he was saying he was a devout fan of Tivo at first, but I think he's saying he's a devout fan of TDS instead.

Posted by: Tim at Mar 10, 2005 3:01:25 PM

Willis was bangin lindsay lohan the prev night, according to gossips.

Posted by: yoyo at Mar 10, 2005 8:58:49 PM

Tim,

I agree. The "devout fan" was a compliment to the show and the host. In fact Willis seemed a little lukewarm about TiVo.

Not that anyone should care what he thinks.

Posted by: mucker at Mar 12, 2005 5:59:15 PM

Isn't this just more pop culture adoration/hatred bullshit? I am sickened at MYSELF for even responding to this kind of conversation. I have GOT to get a Life.

Posted by: George Walkken at Mar 14, 2005 12:52:02 AM

Does it support closed captioning?

Hmmmmm

Grant
http://blog.grantlairdjr.com

Posted by: Grant W Laird Jr at Mar 15, 2005 4:15:19 AM

Heh. Sort of ironic, considering that "The Daily Show" is one of those annoying ones that *never* has consistent or complete guide data. And so season passes set to record just the "new" shows daily end up failing... instead recording 6 times daily!

This has been going on for years, too. Setting a "manual recording" defeats the point of TiVo's intelligence, not to mention the worth of paying a subscription fee.

http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=181630

http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=191538

I hate to say it, but this is the reason I don't have an SP for the show.

Posted by: Josh at Mar 19, 2005 7:49:07 AM

This not only happens on tivo, but other DVRs as well. And he is obviously high and talking about how much he likes the show.

Posted by: T at Apr 7, 2005 10:04:26 AM

Ah...let Bruce do his rant and love his Tivo. Todd Lokken

Posted by: Todd Lokken at Sep 14, 2005 12:35:47 PM