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welcome to top 5 where we countdown all kinds of things i'm your host is apt are unless you've been living under a rock you've probably heard of Steve Jobs who my kid even if you do live under a rock you probably have heard of him anyway there's a new movie about the founder of apple penned by Aaron Sorkin and starring Michael Fassbender how many people have played jobs check out this IMDB page today we're counting down the top five for trails of steve jobs you might be wondering what criteria are you using the judge how jobs like an actor was he's got to be intense passionate and kind of a jerk I'm basing this on what I've read and seemed so let's get to it at number five Justin Long and I Steve you know Justin long right he was the guy who was the mac in the i'm a mac and i'm a pc series of ads he also starred in I Steve how was he well less-than-subtle since this was a movie made by Funny or Die it goes for laughs case in point in the scene where jobs is ousted from Apple he attempts to convince people to come with him instead of using his personality and passion this Steve Jobs attempt to pick a person up physically to take with him as the movie progresses he does start exhibiting Steve Jobs salesmanship at number four Fred Armisen in various SNL sketches yep i'm putting fred armisen on this list at a time when apple products were exploding into the public consciousness you could tell Armisen watched lots of keynotes led by Steve Jobs there's a bit of that Steve Jobs intensity but mostly it's an impression of the reality distortion field that gets him on this list everything armagh sins jobs presents his revolutionary and game-changing even if it's not at number three Ashton Kutcher in jobs he bears quite the resemblance to the man himself Kutcher did a great job capturing Steve Jobs kate's he's also got a ton of intensity so many scenes have coaches staring down others and boy did he pull off the I'm holding all the cards face he shows very little softness but he does show an affinity for Steve Wozniak played by Josh GAD Kutcher also shows a look of betrayal over jobs removal from Apple that it creates such sympathy for a character who's pretty much jurkat time at number two Michael Fassbender and Steve Jobs all right at first glance he looks nothing like Steve Jobs the Fassbender was excellent in a few flashback scenes Fassbender disappears he shows a lot of range of Steve Jobs when it came to wooing John Sculley away from pepsi become the CEO of Apple Fassbender completely sells the concept of running at the theater company and the rest of the movie he's a quick talking intense and mercurial character right before a product launch Fassbender effortlessly says horrible things and beings then switches to being funny without it seeming unnatural at all he was awesome but narrowly defeated by one man at number one noah wily in pirates of Silicon Valley I rewatched pirates of Silicon Valley to make sure I wasn't just remembering the movie through a biased belton i'm pretty sure while it is the best steve jobs on this list he's smug and passionate while having an air of ease around him throughout the movie while he has the look in his eyes that he knows more than everyone else in the room the performance caught a lot of attention while he even appeared at mccool's 1999 as steve jobs before the real steve jobs interrupted him to tell him he's being steve jobs all wrong there you have it that's top five actors who played Steve Jobs if you think Trey Parker of south park should have been on this list let me know on Twitter i'm at is for more top five like this and some that aren't like this check out top 5 cnet com thanks for watching and we'll see you next time you