Scarlett Johansson maybe too!
Left field is a vast area that exists beyond third base on a baseball field. It is also where unexpected and weird things arise. Enter Colin Jost. The Saturday Night Live alum, and husband of blonde bombshell Scarlett Johansson was, minutes ago, announced as the voice of Olympic surfing.
Instead, the Saturday Night Live regular will be traveling to Tahiti to cover the surfing competition. The Pacific island is part of French Polynesia and will play host to the second ever surfing event at an Olympics (the sport made its debut at the Tokyo games in 2021).
While Jost, who’s a surfer in his own right, will be on the ground to interview athletes and preview the waves, the rest of NBCU’s surfing commentary team — play-by-play announcer Joe Turpel and analyst Michael Parsons — will call the action remotely from NBC Sports’ broadcast center in Stamford, Connecticut.
Is Michael Parsons the same person as Snips?
Like, the Snips?
No time for that now. Jost is much loved for his dry humor as part of the Weekend Update team alongside Michael Che.
I don’t have much more to say, at this time, as your hot takes are required immediately.
Except for the fact that Jost and Johansson get to promenade in Tahiti while Turpel and Snips (?) bunk down in Stamford, Connecticut’s finest Holiday Inn.
More as the story develops.
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I wonder how he will “preview the waves”?
Put Ben Marcus behind the mic!!!
Ben Marcus should be announcing.
Bring an Aussie, I have no idea who this bloke is, couldn’t be any worse than the dribble the woozle serve up. Could it?
He apparently swooned the lovely ScarJo so there’s that.
The head announcers with the WSL (Chris, Joe, Strider, Kaipo) are actually really good at their jobs. They don’t sound bored or sick of traveling, even when they must be, never miss a beat, and treat all competitors with equal enthusiasm despite whatever personal feelings they might have.
The part timers usually do all right, or even better. Jesse is quite good, and even Flick sounds better than the clowns in business suits they put on TV to talk about sports that involve tossing and kicking balls around.
We get annoyed sometimes, but I think that’s a function of just how long surf contests drag on. They go on for days, whereas a lot of games have 90 minute clocks.
Sympathy for the Devil? Maybe. But I’m just saying that truly BAD announcers would be really awful.
BTW I think the word Kaipo is Hawaiian for typo.
let’s be honest here. The scarlott johannson deep fakes might be a bit much for a YouTube audience
considering the France/Tahiti time zone the French will not watch more than 5 minutes of the competition with Snips and Turpel in the booth.
If you look up “Sleep Aids” on Google, Mike Parsons is top of the list…and in regards to Turpel, the French hate politeness.
There is no SNL “Weekend Update” without Chevy Chase or Dennis Miller.
Jost has just entered the Beach Grit zone.
He has no idea what he’s done. BWWWWWAHAHAHAHA
…no che? racists!
I wonder how he will preview the waves?
You know you’ve made it when SNL is doing jokes at your expense… Pip…
hot take: he jumped Mitchell’s place in line at the salad bar, and Mitchell ain’t gonna be happy
“Tell me Mike, why do we keep seeing the surfers disappear themselves from view? Surely they’d want the judges to see them surfing? I’ve noticed the women seem to be much better at this than the men.”
Do they go to the opening ceremony and then fly as far away from France as you can get?
Nah they just walk a dog and let it shit somewhere without picking it up and then they can depart!
Xox
While smoking
Of course, all French dogs have to rip a durry first to inspire a bowl movement!
Xox
I’d love to see Defay in a bikini and beret puffing a Gauloises before hitting the lineup.
And standing in dog poo.
Xox
nope. just gonna need to contract herpes out in Tahiti instead.
Serious question. Is there a waiting period for the surfing Olympics? Or do they just charge ahead on pre set dates regardless of conditions?
Yup. Only sick fucks would be praying for a borderline tow swell.
I am a sick fuck btw.
Xox
cosigned in the sick fucks department. give me carnage. give me more skulls for the altar of skulls.
It will really be quite spectacular if it’s dead flat. I wonder if that cruise ship they’re on can kick-up a decent wake.
depends on how Turpel spins it.
Hopefully we get a Fred Willard from Best in Show-esque performance https://m.youtube.com/watch…
will never be topped
https://uploads.disquscdn.c… Cotton McKnight & Pepper Brooks are a distant second, but respectable nonetheless
nah the surfing’s actually gunna be called by BL and Jess Grimwood…from Paris.
I like the guys who do the Chopes trials in mostly French with some random, short English updates. We should just have them and ambient ocean sounds for the Olympics.
I’d listen to that over Turpel 💯
Nah should be that ambient faux cafe clatter that you can stream!
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The auto captioning of that was quite spectacular
and that’s how Coyote Belly was born. think it was from a captioned Portugese feed tho. Surfing needs more of this.
“A surfer in his own right”😂 https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
do Josts poop in the woods?
I wonder if it’s tough to paddle straight when your right arm is twice the size of your left.
Careful, he’ll clock ya!
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