Let’s pick up the awards here.
Plenty of great performances left.
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Scene Stealer - As Themselves
Nominees:
Gary McCord - Tin Cup
Brett Favre - Something About Mary
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar - Airplane!
Dan Marino - Ace Ventura, Pet Detective
Mary Lou Retton - Scrooged
Winner: Chris Evert - Trainwreck
Kareem's cameo was groundbreaking and lots of people love the Favre and Marino appearances in the two biggest 1990's comedies.
Despite all that, I'm going back to Trainwreck.
Chris Evert goes so hard against type in a loaded intervention scene.
She steals the scene from Bill Hader and Matthew Broderick.
Although Marv Albert seals the deal on her lines, "Chris Evert hitting on Aaron hard"
Scene Stealer - As A Character
Nominees:
Bob Cousy - Blue Chips
John Matuszak - One Crazy Summer
Cam Neely - Dumb And Dumber
Reggie Jackson - The Naked Gun
Winner:
Marques Johnson - White Men Can’t Jump
Another great batch of nominees.
Old man Bob Cousy sinking free throw after free throw in one take in Blue Chips is kind of amazing.
The 'Tooz' is nuts in a nutty 80's comedy.
And Reggie's "I must kill the Queen" is iconic.
Watch the clip.
Marques is nuts, joyful, threatening and real.
Announcers - As Themselves In Drama
Nominees:
Frank Gifford - Viva Kneivel
Jim Lampley - Creed
Stu Nahan - Rocky III
Vin Scully - For The Love Of The Game
Winner:
Warner Wolf - Rocky IV
Nobody loves the kitsch of the Evel Kneivel movie more than I.
And nobody loves the simultaneous greatness and ridiculousness of the Rocky series more than I.
As a result, I've just got 9 words for you, "I just can't get over the size of this Russian."
Also, Warner Wolf was a proto highlight sportscaster with his "Let's go to the videotape shtick."
Chef's kiss.
Announcers - As Themselves In Comedy
Nominees:
Chick Hearn - Fletch
Chris Schenkel - Kingpin
Roy Firestone - Jerry Maguire
Al Michaels & Bob Costas - BASEketball
Marv Albert - The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh
Winner:
Stu Nahan - Fast Times At Ridgemont High
Chick Hearn nails it with "6 feel 5 but 6 feet 9 with the afro."
And Roy Firestone is a real plot point for Rod Tidwell to start crying on his show.
Great runners up.
Nonetheless, nobody else on this list had to tell Jeff Spicoli that he got his sports jacket from the network.
Best SNL Hosts
Nominees:
Eli Manning
Joe Montana
Charles Barkley
Michael Jordan
Bill Russell
Derek Jeter
Tom Brady
Winner:
Peyton Manning
I judge a SNL episode by how many great sketches they have in them, or a host by how many great sketches they were in.
Joe Montana has the best moment every "I'll be upstairs masturbating".
Eli, Bill Russell and Jeter had 1-2 moments.
Brady had two winners (Sexual Harrassment And You, Behind The Music: The Super Bowl Shuffle).
Barkley episodes are great overall.
Michael Jordan was a close second.
But Peyton had two all timers (United Way and the Will Forte Halftime Speech Dancing), plus a couple more decent ones and not a bad monologue.
Drama/Action Star
Nominees:
Jim Brown - The Dirty Dozen
Boban Marjanovic - John Wick
Patrick Ewing - Exorcist III
Dennis Rodman - Double Team
Wilt Chamberlain - Conan The Destroyer
OJ Simpson - Towering Inferno
Winner:
Bruce Lee - Enter The Dragon
Several of these Nominees:
are silly like Rodman and Wilt.
Don't sleep on how weird it was with Patrick Ewing in Exorcist III as some kind of warlock demon.
Jim Brown was a bad ass.
But as long as Bruce Lee is eligible here, he wins.
This clip is an extra bonus to see him fighting Kareem.
Real Acting, Carries The Movie
Nominees:
Andre The Giant - The Princess Bridge
Penny Hardaway - Blue Chips
Alex English - Amazing Grace and Chuck
Ray Allen - He Got Game
Randall "Tex" Cobb - Raising Arizona
Winner:
Lawrence Taylor - Any Given Sunday
No disrespect to Ray Allen, he really does a hell of a job co-starring with Denzel Washington.
Amazing Grace And Chuck is the silliest movie that ever co-starred Gregory Peck but Alex English is a real actor for 90 minutes, or at least until - spoiler alert - his plane blows up in the film.
Here's my biggest upset pick: LT for Any Given Sunday.
This is no walk-through cameo, he's legitimately great in this movie.
Actor - Whole Movie as a Character (not as Himself)
Nominees:
Kevin Garnett - Uncut Gems
Pele - Victory
Shaq - Blue Chips
Juancho Hernangomez - Hustle
Rosey Grier - The Thing With Two Heads
Bruce Jenner - Can’t Stop The Music
Winner:
Bob Uecker - Major League
With the except of Rosey Grier and Bruce Jenner here in two of the worst films of all time, there's still a lot of real acting here in this category ... pretty much the same as the previous category.
But Major League is a somewhat beloved movie and I think it's at least 50% due to Bob Uecker.
Who knew a journeyman catcher would be one of the funniest movie characters ever, arguably the best Johnny Carson guest and the start of the most iconic commercial series of all time.
Actor - Whole Movie As Themselves
Nominees:
John McEnroe - Mr. Deeds
Mike Tyson - The Hangover
Michael Jordan - Space Jam
Harlem Globetrotters - Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan’s Island
Muhammad Ali - The Greatest
Winner:
Mike Ditka - Kicking & Screaming
Mike Tyson does an awful lot of heavy lifting in The Hangover.
I've gotta hard in hard for Mike Ditka here.
"Way to go, Bing Bong."
Watching Ditka go toe-to-toe with hatred for Robert Duvall, tutoring then being called "Juice Box" by Will Ferrell - this movie is so much nuttier and funnier than a kids soccer movie needs to be.
