King of Snark
The best roasting at a tech event, though, has to be Tom Hanks on stage for Sony at CES in 2009.
Cited as one of the nicest men in Hollywood, the actor had a rare moment of snark. He made it perfectly clear that he views the never-ending launches from companies like Sony as irritating, telling the audience about the defunct tech he has stacked at home. He also told a slightly scared-looking Howard Stringer that he was only there “…because you keep writing into my contract!”
The actor then had great fun playing with the terrible script some poor Sony flunky had written for him as well as pacing up and down the stage like an overexcited tech exec.
He finally left the stage shouting: “Help. I’m being sucked into a vortex. I feel the evil forces of Samsung pulling me deeper and deeper” as Stringer laughs with a tightly clenched jaw. As a Redditor commented: “Imagine having enough power in the entertainment industry to publicly give Sony the finger for 12 minutes.”
