{"id":24,"date":"2005-04-27T16:08:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-28T00:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/wordpress\/?p=24"},"modified":"2005-04-27T16:08:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-28T00:08:00","slug":"high-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/high-comedy.html","title":{"rendered":"High Comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To paraphrase <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonsportsguy.com\">Bill Simmons<\/a>, there&#8217;s high comedy, there&#8217;s transcendent comedy, and then there&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.700wlwsports.com\/menBehindTheMic.html\">Marty Brennaman<\/a> reading off the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cincinnatireds.com\">Reds<\/a>&#8216; trivia question and pronouncing <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Notorious_B.I.G.\">The Notorious BIG<\/a> as The Notorious &#8220;big&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Which is all not to mention his deadpan reading of the various rap song titles and lyrics, which was also quite classic.  It scored at near-100 levels on the <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20030210092743\/http:\/\/espn.go.com\/page2\/s\/simmons\/021107.html\">Unintentional Comedy Scale<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To paraphrase Bill Simmons, there&#8217;s high comedy, there&#8217;s transcendent comedy, and then there&#8217;s Marty Brennaman reading off the Reds&#8216; trivia question and pronouncing The Notorious BIG as The Notorious &#8220;big&#8221; Which is all not to mention his deadpan reading of the various rap song titles and lyrics, which was also quite classic. It scored at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}