See The Unaired 'Saturday Night Live' Tribute To Steve Jobs

I've heard and seen some interesting tributes to Steve Jobs in the wake of the Apple CEO's death earlier this month. Still, I never guessed that arguably one of my favorites might come from "Saturday Night Live."

For that matter, color me also surprised that "SNL" didn't air it.

It's instead made its way online, to Hulu and NBC.com. In the filmed-but-scrapped sketch, a panel of Jobs admirers and contemporaries including mock-ups of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (Andy Samberg), Huffington Post creator and namesame Ariana Huffington, oft-confused (and confusing) Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, and News Corp CEO and "World's Oldest Mean-Girl" Rupert Murdoch during an edition of "The Charlie Rose Show."

Arguably the finest "funny because it's tragically true moment" is when Samberg channels Mike Myers at his funniest and tells Rose that Jobs taught him that technology could be elegant and easy to use.

"And how do you apply that to Facebook?" Rose asks.

"Oh, I don't," Samzuckerberg replies. "Facebook.com started off as just a simple, user-friendly website. Now it's just a mess!"

Were Jobs still breathing a few more breaths at seeing that, he'd probably have used his last couple remaining ones to bellow at his Macbook "Why in God's name do you people laugh?! It's not 'funny because it's true'! It's tragic because it's true!"

OK, so there's the distinct possibility that's just how I imagine it.

Overall, the sketch is actually extremely witty because it can't be ignored how all these executives who would supposedly worship the waxy build-up on Jobs' iPod earbuds run their companies in completely hands-off, overly complicated ways that are living slaps in the face to Jobs' own proven path to success in life and business.

It's a shame this never aired. It's the cleverest way of saying "For as much money as these people have collectively made, none of them would be fit to carry this late genius' iPhone."

Thanks, Steve. You'll be missed.