Don Le Batard

Don Levitard.

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yeah shut up and dribble it's hard to be funny that's why i have such great respect for comedic actors from jim carrey on down because uh it's easier to be dramatic than it is to be funny and the risk you take in sports if you try to be funny is you get embarrassed you're not appealing to the analytic crowd you're not appealing to the people who want you to give them information that they're going to use to their economic benefit there's all sorts of reasons people come to those with a voice in sports

and very very way down the list is funny and so people generally don't want to try it i happen to agree that being funny is different than clever i like clever better than funny because if you're really clever it can be funny and if you're silly it can be funny but it can be taken wrong because it can then be looked at as stupidity and i don't want that so it's a very fine line to walk

Yeah, there's two different things.

You're talking about on-air analysts versus on-air talent and a show like yours.

And they're both equally difficult.

And I maintain that the audience is not necessarily looking.

Madden became, and John Madden, obviously, I love John Madden as a coach, a broadcaster, not even as a gamer guy, which is how people know him now.

He became a caricature at the end where he'd be going the boom, whap, boom,

Zop!

And he'd get the telestrator out.

And when it was just genuine John Madden, I thought it was funny.

But when you try to live up to the character that you've created, then all of a sudden you've crossed the line into, oh, eh, that's not as funny or clever.

So it really is hard to maintain and to have a long career.

It's easier to have a long career when you're down the middle and you are delivering the goods for people.

Look at Richard Jefferson and Tim Legler.

They're not funny.