Posts with tag TonyKornheiser
Posted Apr 29th 2008 11:42AM by Jay Black
Filed under: Sports, News, OpEd, Watercooler Talk, Reality-Free

I've mentioned several times in this space about my love for ESPN's
Pardon the Interruption, but I can always find a reason to say it again: I love this show! I mean, both Kornheiser and Wilbon rank several places higher than most of my family on my Kidney Donation short-list. I don't want to overstate the issue, but spending an afternoon eating pizza and watching
PTI makes me understand how Cartman felt when he
got own his own amusement park.
Soooooooooo happy.
As I was describing (yet again) to my wife how much I love the show, something occurred to me regarding all the other other millions and millions talking-head shows bouncing around my digital cable box: why don't any of them employ a stat boy?
Continue reading Why don't Bill O'Reilly or Keith Olbermann have a Stat Boy?
Posted Oct 17th 2007 3:29PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Sports, Late Night, Video, Celebrities, Talk Show
After what he did the other night, don't espect Jimmy Kimmel to pop up on ESPN's Monday Night Football again.
The show has banned the late night talk show host after his appearance two nights ago. During the Giants/Falcons game, Kimmel suddenly said "I'd also like to welcome Joe Theismann, watching from his living room at home with steam coming out of his ears." Theissman was let go from the show before this season started. MNF producer Jay Rothman called what Kimmel said "classless and disappointing."
The video after the jump has the joke about Theismann, but Kimmel also asked if it was Tony Kornheiser who got Theismann fired and joked about Kornheiser and Ron Jaworski betting on games.
Continue reading Jimmy Kimmel banned from Monday Night Football - VIDEO
Posted Aug 14th 2006 4:09PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Sports, Cable, Talent, Celebrities
The ESPN sports show host (and subject of that lame Jason Alexander sitcom from a couple of years ago, Listen Up) makes his debut tonight on Monday Night Football, a preseason game between the Raiders and the Vikings, and he's a little worried about it. As he says in a not-so-subtle way in this New York Times piece, "I'm going to bomb."
Maybe this is just a way of lowering expectations. He's not going to bomb or be terrible. I mean, Tony, it can't be any worse than Listen Up, can it?