Thanks to Conan O’Brien, I can’t mute Joe Buck …
Posted by: Richie Rich in 2007 MLB Playoffs, Announcers, Charity, Indians, Red Sox, The Simpsons
I dislike FOX Sports announcer Joe Buck. His smarmy, saccharine voice has been ruining sports broadcasts for me for some time now. He’s kinda like Troy McClure.
Last night, Conan O’Brien was interviewing Joe Buck. Buck talked about how his friends will call him during a baseball broadcast and bet him that he can’t work a non-baseball word like “wasabi” into the broadcast. Often times, Buck finds a way to do it.
So Conan threw his own challenge at Buck. Conan O’Brien will donate $1,000 to a charity of Joe Buck’s choice if he works “Jub-Jub” into his broadcast of the World Series. Jub-Jub, is the name which then Simpsons-writer O’Brien gave Selma’s pet iguana on “the Simpsons.”
Watch the video …
Great. Just great.
I had gotten used to turning down the sound on FOX’s ALCS Broadcasts. Now I gotta listen for Buck to say Jub-Jub on National TV.
I think that Joe Buck looks a bit like Troy McClure, too.
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October 18th, 2007 at 11:08 pm
“Hi, I’m Joe Buck, and you may remember me from such self aggrandizing tirades as Randy Moss’s fake mooning, and Manny Ramirez not hustling out of the batter’s box.”
October 19th, 2007 at 12:57 am
did he even end up saying it?
October 19th, 2007 at 8:48 am
I think Conan will be keeping his $1,000.
October 19th, 2007 at 10:29 am
The Jub-Jub drop will be during the World Series.
October 19th, 2007 at 3:12 pm
That’s lame. I can’t sit through that much Joe Buck. I guess I’ll wait for it to show up on YouTube whenever it does end up happening.
October 23rd, 2007 at 11:41 pm
To see more of Conan head to http://youtube.com/watch?v=1s-mEfhVELM
October 25th, 2007 at 12:34 pm
Chris Myers got the Jub Jub thrown on him. I’m glad I don’t have to keep listening for it but that was kind of a letdown.