AllThingsD » U.S. Steel http://allthingsd.com Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:29:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://allthingsd.com/theme/images/logo-rss.jpg All Things Digital http://allthingsd.com/ 144 22 The Comic Stylings of Carl Icahn http://allthingsd.com/20080625/the-comic-stylings-of-carl-icahn/ http://allthingsd.com/20080625/the-comic-stylings-of-carl-icahn/#comments Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:00:52 +0000 Kara Swisher http://kara.allthingsd.com/?p=2215 Billionaire investor Carl Icahn has been unusually quiet of late about his proxy fight against Yahoo, as shares of the troubled Internet concern dip dangerously closer to under $20 a share.

And with no Microsoft-Yahoo deal pending, he also must be pretty depressed right about now.

Who could blame him (well, I could!) for thinking he could overcome the quicksand of Yahoo (YHOO) that has mired even Microsoft (MSFT)?

And even though his many irked letters to the Yahoo board and CEO Jerry Yang definitely came with a cup full of crazy, BoomTown finds we miss him.

Thus, it seems like a good time to repost two videos of the ornery shareholder activist cracking wise at Caroline’s Comedy Club in New York in 2003 about the Texaco/Getty Oil lawsuit and also another about U.S. Steel.

Here’s hoping he can get some good material from this Yahoo stock debacle.

Here are the videos:

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