Jerry Seinfeld, you have earned my eternal enmity for interrupting the closing ceremonies of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games with your new pedestrian show. Do you really think you’re more important than an international sports event, on the day of an awesome, nail-biting grudge match hockey game? Clearly you do, but actually you are not that awesome and your show will fail. I place my Evil Eye upon The Marriage Ref for your crime of hubris.
I really look forward to the opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympic events, and I try to catch up on whatever sports I can in between. This year curling was very convenient to watch, and NBC knew where their bread was being buttered as the Canada matches always seemed to have plenty of closeups of John Morris’ intense, scruffy face. ’sigh’. That shit never got old.
Yaay, previously mentioned and previously gold medal bearded hottie Seth Wescott won the gold in the Men’s Snowboard Cross.
But despite the rude Seinfeld interruption, the closing ceremonies were kind of a trainwreck anyway. Perhaps it was a mercy cut away from the horror. The clown* repairing the malfunctioning torch was clever, but those kids with snowboards went on far too long. Then there was the Russia 2014 Sochi cultural torture segment that also went on for far too long. Canadian comedians/actors doing standup = awkward. It just wasn’t the right venue for stand-up. And either the sound was off or Michael Buble can’t lip synch worth a damn. Then came the giant inflatable mounties, moose and BEAVER with stand-up cut-out hockey players. WTF?!? All of that may have congealed into something that made sense but then the importance of Jerry Seinfeld cut in before the ceremonies were done. Fuck you Jerry Seinfeld, you ruined the 2010 Winter Olympics for everyone. Great job, I’m sure your show is going to be a big hit.
Here’s me last month in Pennsylvania trying out for the snowboard cross finals:
I went to see Shutter Island with TJ and Rob yesterday. It was a well-made movie, but kinda depressing.
* Any time a clown outshines other forms of entertainment it’s a bad sign.