Topic: Sports Show, Norm Macdonald
WOW! Was this really Week 3 already? Time flies when you're having fun, doesn't it? I used to dread Tuesdays, but now I live for Tuesdays at 10:30 p.m. EDT. "Sports Show With Norm Macdonald" is the one thing I look forward to every week. The show has had an interesting side-effect on me. I have actually started paying more attention to sports lately. I'm not saying I understand anymore about sports than before. I don't. But I'm actually making a point of trying to keep up with sports news more now than before and at least trying to make an effort to learn more about sports. This week had me in a total panic, though. Storms here caused a lot of damage, and our Directv was out through most of the first airing, so I had to wait until 12:30 a.m. for another chance to see it again. That may not seem like a long time to most people, but for people like me who have been a fan of Norm Macdonald for 17 years and have basically been Norm deprived for the last couple of years, it's a big deal.
Norm and the writers really outdid themselves this week. I don't think they could've fit anymore into a thirty-minute episode if they tried. My notes are twice as long as they were last week, but I'll try to shorten it for this blog.
The opening segment included stories such as Major League Baseball taking control of the Dodgers from owner Frank McCourt, NFL player Brandon Marshall being stabbed with a kitchen wife by his wife (Can you say "divorce"? "Restraining order"?), and Gothorpe Maple's 48th Annual coal carrying contest.
I have also found "Sports Show With Norm Macdonald" to be quite educational. For example, Norm reports that Samantha Posey, sister of San Francisco Giants catcher, Buster Posey, hit a home run cycle. A home run cycle, I learned, is a solo, a two run, a three run homer, and a grand slam home run. Before "Sports Show", I had never even heard of a home run cycle, let alone knew what it meant.
The next segment was "Which of These Videos Will Make Me Swear?". This is probably my favorite segment of the week. Why? Hearing Norm saying things like "What in tarnation?", "Saints preserve us!", and "Jumping Jehosaphat!"
Norm announced his picks from the #normsbadsportsmovies entries. The he asked the viewers to go to the Sports Show blog site and vote for which one of the movie posters should be made into a movie trailer. There were more listed on the show's blog site, btw. Personally, I picked "Wookie of the Year". Hey, Chewbacca was cute and furry. I like furry things. :)
Next was Norm's Trick Shot Video where he made several attempts (6 to be exact) before succeeding. The video is on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rJInvmdGow. Norm wants 250,000 votes/views. Plus he wants viewers to send in their trick shot video (complete with catch phrase) at http://sportsshow.comedycentral.com/2011/04/27/can-you-beat-a-norm-macdonald-trick-shot/.
"Wait, What?" was about a monkey riding on a dog. The owner's dream when he was a kid was to own a monkey and said he got where he was today by trusting monkeys. (Yes, you heard right).
This week's "What the H?" was about Barry Bonds using steroids. Norm points out that yes, this is cheating, but that cheating has always been a part of baseball. For instance, they used to catch a ball bare handed, then someone started using a glove, the first guy to steal a base, and oh yeah...bringing in Jackie Robinson--the only team with a black player.
The show ended with another packed "Garbage Time" segment. My favorite joke of the night came during this segment--"Ping-pong is the only sport named after it's inventor." Hey, sometimes it's the little things. Norm didn't beat the clock this week, but gave it a good try.
Well, that's it for this edition. I can't wait for the next show to see how they are going to top this one! Until next time--remember the real issue--ROBOTS!
P.S. My apologies if I got any names wrong or spelled anything wrong. Closed-Captioning isn't exactly reliable. You'd think it would be better considering....
