Key and Peele call a basketball game
When we watch sports broadcasts, we often make little deals with ourselves. We’ll make peace with the bad things the men we’re watching have done or have been accused of doing; we’ll look past, or look fondly upon, the odd stuff that the announcers calling the game always seem to say in the course of their commentary; we’ll accept the relative absurdity of all the pageantry, attention, focus and intensity surrounding a bunch of adults playing a kid’s game.
Comedians Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele like to pretend — they make their living doing it, in fact — but they also like to puncture pretense in the process. Here, just in time for tipoff of the 2015 NBA Finals on Thursday night, they offer their perspective on what announcers are actually saying when they call the game:
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Well, that sure is … descriptive. (I’m still taking Kevin Harlan’s “right between the eyes” over “sturmscams,” though.)
The new season of “Key and Peele” will premiere July 8 on Comedy Central.
Hat-tip to Bleacher Report.
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