This clip first aired during the Athens Summer Olympics in 2004.
Mary Carillo, former professional tennis player turned Olympic correspondent for CBS, was anchoring a late-night badminton match when she decided to compare “backyard” badminton to the stuff that the “bad boys of badminton” play at the Olympic Games. What ensues is a pitch-perfect Seinfeld routine delivered with such straight-faced seriousness that it makes you wonder if she wrote this ahead of time or if it’s all off the top of her head. Either way, Carillo doesn’t miss a beat and her performance is legendary. Shame I hadn’t seen this clip until now.
Via BoingBoing.
“And it’s always Christopher Burr.”
No way!
I’m in the office and the following line made me crack-up:
“You’ve got Coleen Clark up in the tree trying to get down a Sponge Bob Square Pants beachball with a hockey stick.”