On Wednesday’s Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Tiger Woods made his first late appearance since his scandal. Anyone expecting Jimmy Fallon to ask him “What the hell were you thinking?” (what Jay Leno inquired of Hugh Grant in 1995) was probably disappointed. Fallon did address the scandal, in a roundabout way, choosing to open with, “It’s been a year and a half since you were on our show… what have you been up to?” Woods’ response: “Uh, nothin’. Nothin’. Playin’ bad golf.”
We do have to give props to Fallon for thanking Woods, ad nauseum, for the gift he gave late night shows. “I want to say thank you for having the courage to come on a late night comedy program…. It must have been a painful and awful situation, the whole thing you went through, but from a comedian’s standpoint, and my monologue writers’, thank you so much. That was some of the greatest comedy we did ever. I mean, you must have heard every golf joke in history, but that is like a magical thing to happen, your awful pain. And we laughed at your pain, and I mean, not even making jokes — it kinda wrote itself. I mean, ‘balls,’ ‘shaft,’ ‘holes,’ ‘foursomes.’ I mean, it really writes itself. I just want to say, thank you. thank you, thank you.” Woods laughed heartily and said, “You got it.”
Surprisingly, that’s when Woods looked the most relaxed. READ FULL STORY »
Mixing football phenoms with pop music can often lead to disastrous results (the Black Eyed Peas halftime show, the Super Bowl Shuffle) but leave it to — who else? — Tim Tebow to restore the faith. Tebow has already been the divine inspiration for catchy, clever fan mixes and a genius rewrite of “St. Elmo’s Fire” (“Tim Tebow’s Fire”) by none other than John Parr himself.
