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Re: Tina Fey chats with Eric Schmidt

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Really interesting interview. Tina Fey was very good; engaging, interesting, funny. Eric Schmidt probably shouldn't give up his day job to become a presenter. The Google mentions and plugs seemed a bit nauseating. E.g. the fact baby names can be found via Google doesn't really need advertising.

In fairness, I thought he did a pretty good job. Better than I would have expected for a CEO :D and some of the audience questions were pretty good too. I suspect he won't be going after Jimmy Fallon's job in 2020, though.

Yes I thought he was pretty good too. If you want a train wreck for a Google talk, look at Conan O'Brien's interview there -- the interviewer was cringe-worthy.

Re: Tina Fey chats with Eric Schmidt

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post #12

Really interesting interview. Tina Fey was very good; engaging, interesting, funny. Eric Schmidt probably shouldn't give up his day job to become a presenter. The Google mentions and plugs seemed a bit nauseating. E.g. the fact baby names can be found via Google doesn't really need advertising.

I was there. The Google stuff played well to the crowd, I think. It doesn't come across in the video.

Re: Tina Fey chats with Eric Schmidt

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I think this interview does a good job of showing just how easy people like Letterman and O'Brien make interviewing look.

at least they didn't have the same guy that interviewed Conan. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7TwqpWiY5s

It's funny, people lather praise for Vic when he is presenting Android and what not, but he was really out of his depth with Conan.
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