The iPhone 5: It's funny (or is it?)

iPhone launches have become such events that people line up, scream, and wail, as if this were, oh, REO Speedwagon on tour again.

Now that the fully elongated joy has been revealed, it's instructive to see all those who have attempted to eke humor from the sixth coming (even though it's called iPhone 5).

This week, those possessed of humor -- or merely possessed -- have created films that reflect their own jaundiced view of the new iPhone. the obligatory spoof

First, there was the obligatory spoof of Apple's own obligatory serious launch video.

Here are serious-looking, Apple-type people extolling the sheer speed of the phone. It's faster than Wi-Fi. Until, that is, "every asshole on the planet starts to clog up your network."