Seinfeld Producer and Fake Steve Jobs Working on TV Pilot About Real Steve Jobs

It was only a matter of time. Dan Lyons, aka Fake Steve Jobs, is penning a comedy pilot about a tech mogul. Called iCON, the show has been commissioned by EPIX and will be directed by Larry Charles, the Seinfeld writer-producer who went on to direct Borat and Bruno.

The lead character in iCON is called Tom Rhodes and is said to be a hybrid of Jobs and other tech grandees. Charles described the show as "nothing less than a modern-day Citizen Kane," adding that it would be "a scabrous satire...