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Stephen Colbert is Bored With the iPad 2

April 5, 2011 at 5:40 am PT

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Stephen Colbert was totally psyched to get the new, thinner iPad 2. But that was a couple minutes ago.

Tagged with: advertising, Apple, Colbert Report, digital, entertainment, iPad, iPad 2, MediaMemo, Newt Gingrich, Peter Kafka, software, Stephen Colbert

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