About 5 years ago, I was unhappily writing on another show. I started to think "what kind of show would I like to be writing on right now?" I realized that what I'd most like to be doing is something with sports and comedy. Maybe a show like The Soup but with sports.
Obviously, this wasn't a revolutionary idea by any means, but I was oddly passionate about it and had a ton of ideas. I started working on it a little bit and trying to put it together.
The key to the thing, as all these types of shows are, is the host. Who would be the host? Well, there was only 1 person I'd really want to do it with who I knew could do it right. And that was Norm MacDonald.
Norm is a comedy God to me. Plus, he's a sports fan. If I could get him involved, I might have something.
Phone calls were made to the people around Norm, trying to gauge interest. But I couldn't do it on my own.
Luckily, I had a manager. We went to dinner. I told him the Sports Soup thing I wanted to do, and how it was the only thing I really wanted to do. And that Comedy Central was always looking for a sports show and they had yet to find one.
He kind of just smiled, shook his head, and he goes "you should do politics! Politics is huge, that's where it's at. Forget sports".
That was it. The matter was dropped, and he did not help me. The show never happened.
Today, I am sitting in my office. And people from Comedy Central have come by. They are borrowing our stage to shoot a pilot. It's called "The Sports Show with Norm MacDonald". It's a soup style show about sports.
I am in no way saying this was stolen from me. What I am saying is that I had a good idea, and Team Handleman completely dropped the ball yet again.
But worry not, I fired him 2 years ago.
Thursday, 18 November 2010
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