Last night was the premiere of Joe Buck Live, which is the replacement for Bob Costas Now on HBO. Brett Favre, Chad Johnson, and Michael Irvin were pretty entertaining as guests, but the last segment featuring Artie Lange of the Howard Stern show ended up being the kicker.
I won’t get into how it started, but all you need to know is Artie and Buck spent the end of the show taking little comedic potshots at each other. Artie (understandably) got the best of Joe Buck and the show ended. What you’ll see below is the “overtime” segment which only airs on the internet after the actual TV broadcast is done.
This is what happens when a TV personality who thinks he’s funny goes against a real comic and gets his ass handed to him. Buck’s quick one-liners during an MLB game are really no match comedy professional…..especially a fat one who has probably had to do “come backs” on people his entire life.
Now that I think of it…. why in the hell was Artie Lange a guest on this show in the first place?
A fitting end to a historic Olympic run by Phelps. His final medal race didn’t end with drama, but with all the memories hes given us throughout the games….. he’s earned a easy race.
The first video below is the race, and the second video is an interview with Bob Costas afterwards.
Just in case you didn’t believe me in my last post about Bela Karolyi, this man truly gets hyphy while watching gymnastics. I was unable to watch this as it aired on tv this morning, because the gymnastics final didn’t happen until well after midnight.
What human being with a job is going to stay up until 1am watching gymnastics?? NBC is pissing me off so much.
The dominant story for the Beijing Olympics has been Michael Phelps and his quest to become the greatest Olympian in history. It’s been great watching him crush the hopes and dreams of his competition every night, but the bulk of my entertainment has come from an unlikely source.
Former U.S. women’s gymnastics coach Bela Karolyi has been teamed up with Bob Costas in an analyst capacity, which is proving to be a great move from NBC’s brass (despite ruining the Olympics for west coast viewers). I have absolutely NO IDEA what Bela is saying 70% of the time, but he’s so passionate and animated when it comes to gymnastics that he consumes the viewers.
In this video of Bela and Bob, you get to see Karolyi lose his mind around the 1:00min mark in the video while watching the games. It’s GREAT.
Karolyi has been adamant in his stance that the Chinese women’s gymnastics team has been cheating by using girls under the age limit of 16 since before the games started. His criticisms could have very well factored into the decision to ban him from attending the actual events here at the games (which is why he’s forced to sit in a studio with Bob Costas).
“They[the Chinese] are using half-people,” Karolyi said. “One of the biggest frustrations is, what arrogance. These people think we are stupid.
“We are in the business of gymnastics and we know what a kid of 14 or 15 or 16 looks like. You don’t have to be a gymnastics coach to know what they look like at 16.”
