July 17, 2025 • 18 mins
The tradition continues and this time, it’s Shane Gillis vs. Norm Macdonald in these 3 segments reviewing the gold standard of Norm’s monologue from 1998, and last night’s edgy performance from current popular comedian Shane Gillis.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Last night Shane Gillis was the host. It went viral.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
I saw it all over social media and we were
wondering going into it. All right, so how good of
a job will Shane Gillis do? And then what we
always like to do in our show is go back
and compare it to the golden standard of Norm McDonald
hosting the SP's and so kt you always like to
organize the SP's joke off and that's where we are.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Yeah, we're always joking off around here. So here we go.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Let's us start nineteen ninety eight. This is how the
legend Norm McDonald started the show.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
I'm very excited to be here, you know. And I
was asked to host the Spy's this year. Yeah, Hi,
that's my name, us to host the Spy's this year, folks.
I said yes immediately for one reason and one reason only.
This show has interns. I'll be having a little living
proper relations backstage a little.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Later, all right, So I want to tell you guys,
I'm going to seal quick. My daughter's boyfriend walked in
and was like, did you hear the Shane Gillis stuff?
I was like, I saw a bunch of it online
and I go, man, do you know who Norm McDonald is?
And they didn't, so then they looked like I recognize him.
So I made them watch the Norm McDonald monologue and
(01:14):
he's doing that first shoke, and I was like, you
have to understand that when this joke happened, Bill Clinton
had just had an intern named Monica Lewinsky visit him in.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
The Oval office.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
So this is starting off very edgy. And you think
about the edgy ness like this is are they still
owned by Disney?
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Well at the time, they just got bought by Disney,
So yeah, this is very edgy for ESPN.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
But it was all on ESPN last night was on ABC. Yes,
that was not on ESPN, it was on ABC.
Speaker 5 (01:42):
I mean it's there.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
They go to an edgy place with this, and they
don't go edgy anywhere else on their entire network.
Speaker 6 (01:48):
No.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Pretty good job by Norm to start that off with
a very topical nineteen ninety eight joke.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Here's Shane Gillis.
Speaker 7 (01:55):
Sga is here give it up for SCA Hell yeah, Brow,
everybody's sitting around him is in foul trouble.
Speaker 6 (02:02):
That was so good. Megan her Pino could not make
it tonight. Nice?
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Who is that she's a soccer player?
Speaker 6 (02:12):
No, we're gonna pretend she's a good time, right, I don't.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Know anything about her, Tony, she's very outspoken.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Yeah, we're gonna pretend she's a good LGBT.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
You know she helps spearhead getting women's soccer players paid more. Yeah, okay,
like she's you know, feminism, will women dric to all
that stuff, like, but very outspoken about it. And that's
where the joke is. We're gonna pretend like she's a
good time. That's where it's funny.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
I feel like a lot of what he did last
night was a tribute to Norm, because man, Norm used
to go in on women's sports hard cares.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
You will see, Uh okay, let's go so Becca Back
in nineteen ninety eighth, the Nick's.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
You know, we're pretty good.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
They had a player named Anthony Mason who was involved
in some allegations.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
But man, it's ready to be here at the sixth
and Old sp Awards. Hard to believe that the sb's
are six years old, although although Anthony Mason swears they're eighteen.
So wow, he'll be out in sex with the Asby
is in about twelve years.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
So I mean, I mean, that's a dangerous joke because
that's a giant dude.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
Man Norman just doesn't care.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Is it a perfect joke? That's great, all right, goes Shane.
Speaker 7 (03:33):
Donald Trump wants to stage a UFC fight on the
White House lawn. The last time he staged a fight
in DC, Mike Pence almost died.
Speaker 6 (03:46):
You don't have to do that. It was fine, I
didn't write it.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Then he took the opportunity to bring up probably one
of the biggest stories in America right now is the
Epstein situation, given though Epstein's dead.
Speaker 7 (04:01):
Actually there was supposed to be an Epstein joke here,
but I just got deleted.
Speaker 6 (04:09):
Must have probably deleted itself right.
Speaker 7 (04:13):
Ever existed. Actually, let's move on as a country and
ignore that.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Heard good.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
It's so weird the way to meet that he holds
the microphone.
Speaker 6 (04:26):
I don't like that.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
I don't like two hands because he's such a big
guy and he's like holding.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
It like, I don't know, just like a kindergartener.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Yes, when they let John Radagan do Rangers games back
in the day, Yeah, I love John Radigan, nice guy.
Speaker 6 (04:38):
Bad.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
I was always uncomfortable how he held the mic. Yeah,
the two hands on the little mic is not good.
I was nervous though.
Speaker 6 (04:44):
I love it.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
Because it's just him being him. It's just authentic. I
love it.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Okay, go back to Norm for a second. Nineteen ninety
eight again is the year Norm MacDonald.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
That's great to be here and ESPN. I love sports Man.
Speaker 6 (04:56):
I got man.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
You can see sports and ESPN on other network like kickboxing.
That's my favorite sport. Kickboxing is great when you think
about it. It combines the style and grace of boxing
with with kicking.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
It's just Norm one oh one right there.
Speaker 6 (05:16):
Now.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
We had to do a bit of a visual aid
here for this joke from Shane last night, because the
camera is going to pan to just a normal black
lady in the audience.
Speaker 7 (05:25):
Four time w NBA All Star Britney Hicks is here.
Give it up for Brittany, everybody. I'm uh, I'm joking around.
That's my friend's wife. I knew none of you knew.
W NBA players.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Show.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
That's crazy. You clap for that?
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Uh full that one last night and I died loud.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
And then Simone Biles is there with her husband. Of course,
the the safety Jonathan Owens.
Speaker 7 (05:56):
Simone Biles is four foot eight and has seven gold medals.
Speaker 6 (05:59):
She's short, there's a lot of gold.
Speaker 7 (06:01):
When she's not competing, she leads a quiet life at
the base of a rainbow.
Speaker 6 (06:05):
It's a leper Gon joke.
Speaker 7 (06:07):
Did you tell Simona Riddle? And she can't answer it.
She has to give you all of her gold medals.
That was the best one, so you know.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
But we're just getting warmed up here.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
So when we come back, keep saying what Norm had
in ninety eight and what Shane had last night, because
I thought it was pretty good.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Yes, we are at halftime of the sb Joke Off,
Shane Gillis versus Norm McDonald. Don't go anywhere. The jokes
continue in just over three minutes. Let's get right back
to it. Kat is taking us through our joke off.
We compare the jokes from Shane Gillis at last night's
sb's to a Norm McDonald hosted the Sb's in nineteen
ninety eight.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
All right, and there's always one of my favorite ones
ever is involving Jerry Jones. I remember the Cowboys.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Had won three Super Bowls but then started to decline
and Jimmy Johnson's gone and all that stuff to the
late nineties were a weird time for the Cowboys.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
His backstage and a lot of celebrities back there. I
was talking to Jerry Jones, the other Cowboys ownner, and
he's disappointed, obviously.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Yeah, he's a good guy though.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Man.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
He's talking about rebuilding the team, you know, and he
told me, he says, we have to get back to
what made us a championship team, strippers and cracked.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Do you think Jerry Jones would laugh at that or
did laugh at that?
Speaker 5 (07:28):
That's a great question.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
I have to think he would have, But I want
to think that, Yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Think he would have turned to his left and said,
that's a joke about you, Michael, he's.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Doing the crack. Yeah, that we know of, Okay, Shane, Joe.
Speaker 7 (07:45):
Rogan actually wanted me to be here to host this
award show so that I could capture Adam Silver because
Joe thinks he's an alien, and Donald Trump wanted to
be wanted me to be here to capture Juan Soto
for the same reason.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Oh oh my god, alien joke.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
Wait we brewed up there, dude, Shut up.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
That's my first time hearing that one.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Wow, whoa wow on ABC on ABC, Oh Trump will
have it shut down today.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
I enjoyed this one too.
Speaker 7 (08:14):
Aaron Rodgers did not take the vaccine because he predicted
it would be bad for him, and then he joined
the New York Jets.
Speaker 6 (08:23):
Maybe he wasn't right about everything.
Speaker 7 (08:25):
Ah Shnor Sanders had his jersey number retired to Colorado
this year, and people are saying it's because of nepotism,
because of his father, and it's not. It's because he
went thirteen and twelve over his career and he almost
won the Alamo bowlfuitely not.
Speaker 6 (08:41):
Nepotism, right, fantastic.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
That's so good. It's very good. He almost won the Alamo.
I almost got there. Retires jersey thirteen and twelve.
Speaker 5 (08:59):
Oh my god, that's a good sports joke.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Let's go back to nineteen ninety.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
Eight celebration in Denver after that Super Bowl Man and
now city officials expected even wilder celebration if the Nuggets
win ten games this year, they say they got said
all the city's gonna go on nuts. Yeah, the Nuggets
are having a bad year this year. Man. As a
matter of fact, they're making a film about the team.
They had a pretty catchy title. Let's black Men Can't
(09:23):
Jump either.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
For all those gen Z listeners, there was a movie
called White Men Can't Jump in the nineties that I think.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
There is a movie called White Men Can't Jump three
years a.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Few years ago, but no one watched it.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
No I heard it wasn't very good.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
It apparently wasn't, but you know who knows. Let's go
back to norm again for another one.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
I don't film. Let me rampus up here. This is
about Michael Jordan. Remember Michael Jordan left basketball to go
play baseball and then came back to basketball.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
But Jordan is very serious though about leaving. In fact,
he's already called the Hall of Fame to make sure
that his plaque bears his basketball nickname, Aaron Jordan, and
not his baseball nickname, Senior Crappy.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
That one's gotta laugh like King Grivey. Junior is one
who they kept going to him, and he didn't really smile.
He laughed at that one though. He enjoyed Michael Jordan's
sucking at baseball.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
Senior Crappy but a dumb nickname.
Speaker 6 (10:25):
It was very dumb.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Let's go back to Shandon Gillis. This is one of
the best of last night.
Speaker 7 (10:30):
I think it's a big year for the WNBA. I
love Kaitlyn Clark. Kaitlyn Clark, she and I have a
lot in common. We're both whites from the Midwest who
have nailed a bunch of threes.
Speaker 6 (10:43):
Wow, there you go, light not a little. This is
not serious. We'll see about this one.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (10:55):
When Caitlyn Clark retires from the WNBA, she's going to
work at a waffle house so she can continue doing
what she loves most.
Speaker 6 (11:02):
Fist fighting black women.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Is so out of pocket, man, Lord, have mercy, I mean,
if you don't care.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Though he was nervous, though, I mean he was. There's
a few jokes you played where he stumbled a little.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
And he's reading the proper hard. Norm was very comfortable
what he was doing.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
I think I could be wrong, but I think Norm
wrote a good chunk of his stuff.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
And Norm's jokes, I mean Norm's job at that time,
and he might have just been fired, but was reading
jokes off a prompter like Shane never does that.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Yeah, Tiger was about that? Is that for golf course?
Speaker 5 (11:41):
Is that for golfer of the year?
Speaker 2 (11:43):
This?
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Uh, this aspis and you know why I feel sorry
for f fox is the other two guys nominated for
Golfer of the Year. These guys getting ready, and I
was like, hey, honey, have you seen my tuxedo? No, No,
not the good one, the one I wear when I'm
gonna get my ass kick.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
I got it where my get my ass kicked? Suit man.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
There's a few more, and I think I would like
to carry this over because there's one that I just
loved about Bill Belichick and uh yeah, so let's just
do that.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
Now, do it, don't go anywhere.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
We'll continue this next we're continuing with the s B
joke off and with more on that. Here's Kevin Yes.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
So Norm MacDonald did it in nineteen ninety eight, and
we've all kind of agreed that that's been grandfathered in.
Has the greatest estis monologue of all time. But I'll
be damned if we don't have a challenger on our
hands in Jane Gillis. Shane Gillis took on Otanni a
little bit and then you'll see where he went from there.
Speaker 6 (12:39):
Show.
Speaker 7 (12:39):
Hey is a once in a generation talent. No one's
been able to do what he does at so many positions. Pitcher,
hitter and bookie. He is what Bill Belichick reads to
his girlfriend before bedtime.
Speaker 6 (12:52):
Oh my god, they do.
Speaker 7 (12:58):
They read The Very Caterpillar, The Little Engine that Could,
but needed a pill first, and of course the classic
good Night Boobs.
Speaker 6 (13:11):
That's my favorite one.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
That's a great good night moon, good Night Boobs. He's
killow key. Would you have to read your bookie before
you go to bed?
Speaker 6 (13:22):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Norm I love this one.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Well about the Winter Olympics. They're finally underway, so we've
got a lot of great stuff to look forward in
the next two weeks, like hockey and uh well just
hockey really.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
And then he came back with this one, which one
of my favorites ever.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
I was watching last night I saw speed speed skating
and my goodness, you know, could the outfits they wear
be any tighter? Holy Lord? There was an East German woman.
I swear you can see the outline of her entire people.
Speaker 7 (13:55):
It was.
Speaker 6 (13:57):
It is it beeped out.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
It's always been beeped out. I g I got told
the beep it a long time ago.
Speaker 5 (14:02):
Oh what a hero.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Don't to apologize for that cat line of her entire panos.
Speaker 6 (14:07):
Uh, he's seventy three years old.
Speaker 7 (14:10):
He's dating a hot twenty four year old and people
are criticizing him. What happened to this country? Used to
be a great country. He won six super Bowls. He's
dating a hot twenty four year old. Maybe if you
guys won six super Bowls, you wouldn't be sitting next
to a fat, ugly dog wife.
Speaker 6 (14:30):
They let me do it. I don't. This is Disney.
They allowed that. I'n't tell you a story. I was
at a.
Speaker 7 (14:38):
Yeah, we should have taken that out. Doubts going into that.
That didn't work all week?
Speaker 5 (14:45):
Ah, God, that is dongs out for her.
Speaker 6 (14:51):
Amba.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
It is.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
But if you could just accept except the fact that
jokes are being made and that we're in a comedy environment.
But there's so many people at the sb's who view
it as like some prestigious thing. And it's like, dude,
the comedian comes out and hosts the show, the jokes
are gonna happen. Yeah, And I didn't feel like if
you can call someone out specifically and call them a
dog wife, that's bad and that's punching too far down.
(15:15):
I have no problem with fair punching down at a
at of an event.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
With a bunch of rich, elite people.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
I have no problem with that.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Yeah, and in that case, a miniature roast for these
environments is fine.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
In that case, though, he's punching down to the audience. Yeah,
watching on TV, but it's the anonymous audience.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Yes, if you're specific about it and it gets personalized,
it's a problem.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Okay. So OJ was a big story.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
It's the reason Norm got fired from SNL because the
guy who was in charge of NBC at the time
was friends with OJ, and Norm was told to stop
making jokes and he actually did for a few episodes,
and then he started up the jokes again because OJ
got back in the news quite a bit, and uh,
this is the legendry joke from that. He ended his
(16:02):
set with a long time ago about OJ ninety eight.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
And there's Charles Woodson, how about that. I don't want
to season yet. Hey, if you came the first defensive
player to win the Heisman Trophy, congratulations Charles. That is
something that no one can ever take away from you
unless you kill your wife and waiter, in which case.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
So can't help himself.
Speaker 6 (16:25):
That's so good.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
So here's what Shane wanted to do. A tribute to
Norm and do the joke.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
And he did it poorly.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
And it's not like he didn't space it out well enough.
I'm wondering if this is maybe not on the prompter
and he might have added it on his own.
Speaker 7 (16:40):
I'm wondering, Sugar rate Leonards here, Sugar eight, you're the man,
But what in ten years, Jake Paul is going to
try to knock you out?
Speaker 6 (16:48):
So take.
Speaker 7 (16:51):
I want to say before I get out of here.
And this is a dumb joke. You guys don't even
like it, but it was. It's just a Norm McDonald
joke that I loved when he host to the SP's
and I'm gonna do it now. Travis Hunter won the
won the Heisman Trophy this year. He's the first defensive
player since Charles Woodson to win the Heisman. Congratulations Travis
Hunter winning the Heisman. That's something they can never take
away from you, unless you kill your wife and a waiter,
(17:14):
in which case they can take that away from you. Well, see,
a lot of you don't like me, and that's okay.
Speaker 6 (17:23):
That's it for me. That went about.
Speaker 7 (17:27):
It's exactly how we all thought it was gonna go.
Why this happened. Uh, there you go, got lee.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Okay, So did he crack jokes throughout the whole thing
or was it just the monologue.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
No, he came back.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Here's a couple of pre tape sketches, and then he
had a couple. He had a really shocking Deshaun Watson
joke that off. I saw the tush push but a
bit yeah, I thought that was okay. Yeah, it's just
okay man, he's a big Eagles fans. That would kind
of make sense. But yeah, no, I I thought it
was good man.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
All Right, there you have at the Shane Gillis versus
nor McDonald joke off that puts a bow on the
SP's all right, coming up in just over three minutes,
don't miss it the Sports Inferno with Clipper Steve. We're
gonna throw it back to that. You don't want to
miss it. That's next
Last night Shane Gillis was the host. It went viral.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
I saw it all over social media and we were
wondering going into it. All right, so how good of
a job will Shane Gillis do? And then what we
always like to do in our show is go back
and compare it to the golden standard of Norm McDonald
hosting the SP's and so kt you always like to
organize the SP's joke off and that's where we are.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Yeah, we're always joking off around here. So here we go.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Let's us start nineteen ninety eight. This is how the
legend Norm McDonald started the show.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
I'm very excited to be here, you know. And I
was asked to host the Spy's this year. Yeah, Hi,
that's my name, us to host the Spy's this year, folks.
I said yes immediately for one reason and one reason only.
This show has interns. I'll be having a little living
proper relations backstage a little.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Later, all right, So I want to tell you guys,
I'm going to seal quick. My daughter's boyfriend walked in
and was like, did you hear the Shane Gillis stuff?
I was like, I saw a bunch of it online
and I go, man, do you know who Norm McDonald is?
And they didn't, so then they looked like I recognize him.
So I made them watch the Norm McDonald monologue and
(01:14):
he's doing that first shoke, and I was like, you
have to understand that when this joke happened, Bill Clinton
had just had an intern named Monica Lewinsky visit him in.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
The Oval office.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
So this is starting off very edgy. And you think
about the edgy ness like this is are they still
owned by Disney?
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Well at the time, they just got bought by Disney,
So yeah, this is very edgy for ESPN.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
But it was all on ESPN last night was on ABC. Yes,
that was not on ESPN, it was on ABC.
Speaker 5 (01:42):
I mean it's there.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
They go to an edgy place with this, and they
don't go edgy anywhere else on their entire network.
Speaker 6 (01:48):
No.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Pretty good job by Norm to start that off with
a very topical nineteen ninety eight joke.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Here's Shane Gillis.
Speaker 7 (01:55):
Sga is here give it up for SCA Hell yeah, Brow,
everybody's sitting around him is in foul trouble.
Speaker 6 (02:02):
That was so good. Megan her Pino could not make
it tonight. Nice?
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Who is that she's a soccer player?
Speaker 6 (02:12):
No, we're gonna pretend she's a good time, right, I don't.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Know anything about her, Tony, she's very outspoken.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Yeah, we're gonna pretend she's a good LGBT.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
You know she helps spearhead getting women's soccer players paid more. Yeah, okay,
like she's you know, feminism, will women dric to all
that stuff, like, but very outspoken about it. And that's
where the joke is. We're gonna pretend like she's a
good time. That's where it's funny.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
I feel like a lot of what he did last
night was a tribute to Norm, because man, Norm used
to go in on women's sports hard cares.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
You will see, Uh okay, let's go so Becca Back
in nineteen ninety eighth, the Nick's.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
You know, we're pretty good.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
They had a player named Anthony Mason who was involved
in some allegations.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
But man, it's ready to be here at the sixth
and Old sp Awards. Hard to believe that the sb's
are six years old, although although Anthony Mason swears they're eighteen.
So wow, he'll be out in sex with the Asby
is in about twelve years.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
So I mean, I mean, that's a dangerous joke because
that's a giant dude.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
Man Norman just doesn't care.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Is it a perfect joke? That's great, all right, goes Shane.
Speaker 7 (03:33):
Donald Trump wants to stage a UFC fight on the
White House lawn. The last time he staged a fight
in DC, Mike Pence almost died.
Speaker 6 (03:46):
You don't have to do that. It was fine, I
didn't write it.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Then he took the opportunity to bring up probably one
of the biggest stories in America right now is the
Epstein situation, given though Epstein's dead.
Speaker 7 (04:01):
Actually there was supposed to be an Epstein joke here,
but I just got deleted.
Speaker 6 (04:09):
Must have probably deleted itself right.
Speaker 7 (04:13):
Ever existed. Actually, let's move on as a country and
ignore that.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Heard good.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
It's so weird the way to meet that he holds
the microphone.
Speaker 6 (04:26):
I don't like that.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
I don't like two hands because he's such a big
guy and he's like holding.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
It like, I don't know, just like a kindergartener.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Yes, when they let John Radagan do Rangers games back
in the day, Yeah, I love John Radigan, nice guy.
Speaker 6 (04:38):
Bad.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
I was always uncomfortable how he held the mic. Yeah,
the two hands on the little mic is not good.
I was nervous though.
Speaker 6 (04:44):
I love it.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
Because it's just him being him. It's just authentic. I
love it.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Okay, go back to Norm for a second. Nineteen ninety
eight again is the year Norm MacDonald.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
That's great to be here and ESPN. I love sports Man.
Speaker 6 (04:56):
I got man.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
You can see sports and ESPN on other network like kickboxing.
That's my favorite sport. Kickboxing is great when you think
about it. It combines the style and grace of boxing
with with kicking.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
It's just Norm one oh one right there.
Speaker 6 (05:16):
Now.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
We had to do a bit of a visual aid
here for this joke from Shane last night, because the
camera is going to pan to just a normal black
lady in the audience.
Speaker 7 (05:25):
Four time w NBA All Star Britney Hicks is here.
Give it up for Brittany, everybody. I'm uh, I'm joking around.
That's my friend's wife. I knew none of you knew.
W NBA players.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Show.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
That's crazy. You clap for that?
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Uh full that one last night and I died loud.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
And then Simone Biles is there with her husband. Of course,
the the safety Jonathan Owens.
Speaker 7 (05:56):
Simone Biles is four foot eight and has seven gold medals.
Speaker 6 (05:59):
She's short, there's a lot of gold.
Speaker 7 (06:01):
When she's not competing, she leads a quiet life at
the base of a rainbow.
Speaker 6 (06:05):
It's a leper Gon joke.
Speaker 7 (06:07):
Did you tell Simona Riddle? And she can't answer it.
She has to give you all of her gold medals.
That was the best one, so you know.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
But we're just getting warmed up here.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
So when we come back, keep saying what Norm had
in ninety eight and what Shane had last night, because
I thought it was pretty good.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Yes, we are at halftime of the sb Joke Off,
Shane Gillis versus Norm McDonald. Don't go anywhere. The jokes
continue in just over three minutes. Let's get right back
to it. Kat is taking us through our joke off.
We compare the jokes from Shane Gillis at last night's
sb's to a Norm McDonald hosted the Sb's in nineteen
ninety eight.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
All right, and there's always one of my favorite ones
ever is involving Jerry Jones. I remember the Cowboys.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Had won three Super Bowls but then started to decline
and Jimmy Johnson's gone and all that stuff to the
late nineties were a weird time for the Cowboys.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
His backstage and a lot of celebrities back there. I
was talking to Jerry Jones, the other Cowboys ownner, and
he's disappointed, obviously.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Yeah, he's a good guy though.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Man.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
He's talking about rebuilding the team, you know, and he
told me, he says, we have to get back to
what made us a championship team, strippers and cracked.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Do you think Jerry Jones would laugh at that or
did laugh at that?
Speaker 5 (07:28):
That's a great question.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
I have to think he would have, But I want
to think that, Yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Think he would have turned to his left and said,
that's a joke about you, Michael, he's.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Doing the crack. Yeah, that we know of, Okay, Shane, Joe.
Speaker 7 (07:45):
Rogan actually wanted me to be here to host this
award show so that I could capture Adam Silver because
Joe thinks he's an alien, and Donald Trump wanted to
be wanted me to be here to capture Juan Soto
for the same reason.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Oh oh my god, alien joke.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
Wait we brewed up there, dude, Shut up.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
That's my first time hearing that one.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Wow, whoa wow on ABC on ABC, Oh Trump will
have it shut down today.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
I enjoyed this one too.
Speaker 7 (08:14):
Aaron Rodgers did not take the vaccine because he predicted
it would be bad for him, and then he joined
the New York Jets.
Speaker 6 (08:23):
Maybe he wasn't right about everything.
Speaker 7 (08:25):
Ah Shnor Sanders had his jersey number retired to Colorado
this year, and people are saying it's because of nepotism,
because of his father, and it's not. It's because he
went thirteen and twelve over his career and he almost
won the Alamo bowlfuitely not.
Speaker 6 (08:41):
Nepotism, right, fantastic.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
That's so good. It's very good. He almost won the Alamo.
I almost got there. Retires jersey thirteen and twelve.
Speaker 5 (08:59):
Oh my god, that's a good sports joke.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Let's go back to nineteen ninety.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
Eight celebration in Denver after that Super Bowl Man and
now city officials expected even wilder celebration if the Nuggets
win ten games this year, they say they got said
all the city's gonna go on nuts. Yeah, the Nuggets
are having a bad year this year. Man. As a
matter of fact, they're making a film about the team.
They had a pretty catchy title. Let's black Men Can't
(09:23):
Jump either.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
For all those gen Z listeners, there was a movie
called White Men Can't Jump in the nineties that I think.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
There is a movie called White Men Can't Jump three
years a.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Few years ago, but no one watched it.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
No I heard it wasn't very good.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
It apparently wasn't, but you know who knows. Let's go
back to norm again for another one.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
I don't film. Let me rampus up here. This is
about Michael Jordan. Remember Michael Jordan left basketball to go
play baseball and then came back to basketball.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
But Jordan is very serious though about leaving. In fact,
he's already called the Hall of Fame to make sure
that his plaque bears his basketball nickname, Aaron Jordan, and
not his baseball nickname, Senior Crappy.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
That one's gotta laugh like King Grivey. Junior is one
who they kept going to him, and he didn't really smile.
He laughed at that one though. He enjoyed Michael Jordan's
sucking at baseball.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
Senior Crappy but a dumb nickname.
Speaker 6 (10:25):
It was very dumb.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Let's go back to Shandon Gillis. This is one of
the best of last night.
Speaker 7 (10:30):
I think it's a big year for the WNBA. I
love Kaitlyn Clark. Kaitlyn Clark, she and I have a
lot in common. We're both whites from the Midwest who
have nailed a bunch of threes.
Speaker 6 (10:43):
Wow, there you go, light not a little. This is
not serious. We'll see about this one.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (10:55):
When Caitlyn Clark retires from the WNBA, she's going to
work at a waffle house so she can continue doing
what she loves most.
Speaker 6 (11:02):
Fist fighting black women.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Is so out of pocket, man, Lord, have mercy, I mean,
if you don't care.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Though he was nervous, though, I mean he was. There's
a few jokes you played where he stumbled a little.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
And he's reading the proper hard. Norm was very comfortable
what he was doing.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
I think I could be wrong, but I think Norm
wrote a good chunk of his stuff.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
And Norm's jokes, I mean Norm's job at that time,
and he might have just been fired, but was reading
jokes off a prompter like Shane never does that.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Yeah, Tiger was about that? Is that for golf course?
Speaker 5 (11:41):
Is that for golfer of the year?
Speaker 2 (11:43):
This?
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Uh, this aspis and you know why I feel sorry
for f fox is the other two guys nominated for
Golfer of the Year. These guys getting ready, and I
was like, hey, honey, have you seen my tuxedo? No, No,
not the good one, the one I wear when I'm
gonna get my ass kick.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
I got it where my get my ass kicked? Suit man.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
There's a few more, and I think I would like
to carry this over because there's one that I just
loved about Bill Belichick and uh yeah, so let's just
do that.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
Now, do it, don't go anywhere.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
We'll continue this next we're continuing with the s B
joke off and with more on that. Here's Kevin Yes.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
So Norm MacDonald did it in nineteen ninety eight, and
we've all kind of agreed that that's been grandfathered in.
Has the greatest estis monologue of all time. But I'll
be damned if we don't have a challenger on our
hands in Jane Gillis. Shane Gillis took on Otanni a
little bit and then you'll see where he went from there.
Speaker 6 (12:39):
Show.
Speaker 7 (12:39):
Hey is a once in a generation talent. No one's
been able to do what he does at so many positions. Pitcher,
hitter and bookie. He is what Bill Belichick reads to
his girlfriend before bedtime.
Speaker 6 (12:52):
Oh my god, they do.
Speaker 7 (12:58):
They read The Very Caterpillar, The Little Engine that Could,
but needed a pill first, and of course the classic
good Night Boobs.
Speaker 6 (13:11):
That's my favorite one.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
That's a great good night moon, good Night Boobs. He's
killow key. Would you have to read your bookie before
you go to bed?
Speaker 6 (13:22):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Norm I love this one.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Well about the Winter Olympics. They're finally underway, so we've
got a lot of great stuff to look forward in
the next two weeks, like hockey and uh well just
hockey really.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
And then he came back with this one, which one
of my favorites ever.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
I was watching last night I saw speed speed skating
and my goodness, you know, could the outfits they wear
be any tighter? Holy Lord? There was an East German woman.
I swear you can see the outline of her entire people.
Speaker 7 (13:55):
It was.
Speaker 6 (13:57):
It is it beeped out.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
It's always been beeped out. I g I got told
the beep it a long time ago.
Speaker 5 (14:02):
Oh what a hero.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Don't to apologize for that cat line of her entire panos.
Speaker 6 (14:07):
Uh, he's seventy three years old.
Speaker 7 (14:10):
He's dating a hot twenty four year old and people
are criticizing him. What happened to this country? Used to
be a great country. He won six super Bowls. He's
dating a hot twenty four year old. Maybe if you
guys won six super Bowls, you wouldn't be sitting next
to a fat, ugly dog wife.
Speaker 6 (14:30):
They let me do it. I don't. This is Disney.
They allowed that. I'n't tell you a story. I was
at a.
Speaker 7 (14:38):
Yeah, we should have taken that out. Doubts going into that.
That didn't work all week?
Speaker 5 (14:45):
Ah, God, that is dongs out for her.
Speaker 6 (14:51):
Amba.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
It is.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
But if you could just accept except the fact that
jokes are being made and that we're in a comedy environment.
But there's so many people at the sb's who view
it as like some prestigious thing. And it's like, dude,
the comedian comes out and hosts the show, the jokes
are gonna happen. Yeah, And I didn't feel like if
you can call someone out specifically and call them a
dog wife, that's bad and that's punching too far down.
(15:15):
I have no problem with fair punching down at a
at of an event.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
With a bunch of rich, elite people.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
I have no problem with that.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Yeah, and in that case, a miniature roast for these
environments is fine.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
In that case, though, he's punching down to the audience. Yeah,
watching on TV, but it's the anonymous audience.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Yes, if you're specific about it and it gets personalized,
it's a problem.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Okay. So OJ was a big story.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
It's the reason Norm got fired from SNL because the
guy who was in charge of NBC at the time
was friends with OJ, and Norm was told to stop
making jokes and he actually did for a few episodes,
and then he started up the jokes again because OJ
got back in the news quite a bit, and uh,
this is the legendry joke from that. He ended his
(16:02):
set with a long time ago about OJ ninety eight.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
And there's Charles Woodson, how about that. I don't want
to season yet. Hey, if you came the first defensive
player to win the Heisman Trophy, congratulations Charles. That is
something that no one can ever take away from you
unless you kill your wife and waiter, in which case.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
So can't help himself.
Speaker 6 (16:25):
That's so good.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
So here's what Shane wanted to do. A tribute to
Norm and do the joke.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
And he did it poorly.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
And it's not like he didn't space it out well enough.
I'm wondering if this is maybe not on the prompter
and he might have added it on his own.
Speaker 7 (16:40):
I'm wondering, Sugar rate Leonards here, Sugar eight, you're the man,
But what in ten years, Jake Paul is going to
try to knock you out?
Speaker 6 (16:48):
So take.
Speaker 7 (16:51):
I want to say before I get out of here.
And this is a dumb joke. You guys don't even
like it, but it was. It's just a Norm McDonald
joke that I loved when he host to the SP's
and I'm gonna do it now. Travis Hunter won the
won the Heisman Trophy this year. He's the first defensive
player since Charles Woodson to win the Heisman. Congratulations Travis
Hunter winning the Heisman. That's something they can never take
away from you, unless you kill your wife and a waiter,
(17:14):
in which case they can take that away from you. Well, see,
a lot of you don't like me, and that's okay.
Speaker 6 (17:23):
That's it for me. That went about.
Speaker 7 (17:27):
It's exactly how we all thought it was gonna go.
Why this happened. Uh, there you go, got lee.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Okay, So did he crack jokes throughout the whole thing
or was it just the monologue.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
No, he came back.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Here's a couple of pre tape sketches, and then he
had a couple. He had a really shocking Deshaun Watson
joke that off. I saw the tush push but a
bit yeah, I thought that was okay. Yeah, it's just
okay man, he's a big Eagles fans. That would kind
of make sense. But yeah, no, I I thought it
was good man.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
All Right, there you have at the Shane Gillis versus
nor McDonald joke off that puts a bow on the
SP's all right, coming up in just over three minutes,
don't miss it the Sports Inferno with Clipper Steve. We're
gonna throw it back to that. You don't want to
miss it. That's next
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