Dig it! Comedian Daniel Tosh marks out for the Macho Man…and Ole Anderson?
I was watching Comedy Central about a month ago as Jon Stewart wrapped up “The Daily Show,” and a program called “Tosh.0″ began. My first impression of the tall, skinny geek host, Daniel Tosh, was something like, “Hey, who’s this tall, skinny geek?” (I think most people had the same thought when I cut my first heel promo on live Memphis TV.)
Similar to the format of “The Soup,” (i.e., a blatant rip-off), “Tosh.0″ airs clips circulating online via sites like YouTube, often of people in humilating situations. Tosh’s job is to pour salt on the wounds with his wisecracks, with the exception of the lucky soul whom he grants a “Web redemption” each week–a chance to recreate the scene, but this time with a positive outcome for the victim. Tosh, if you’re reading this, how about a Web redemption for me? I desperately need to erase the memory of Jerry “the King” Lawler tossing a fireball at my prized Florida State Starter jacket (given to me by Uncle Bobby) in 1994, which currently has nearly 18,000 hits on YouTube–oh, the humilation. (I love the comment posted below the video: “Why did he have to be decked out in FSU gear while humiliating himself? Asstard.”)
Meanspirited? OK, maybe. Racist? Definitely! But Tosh is pretty damn funny. Tosh got over in a big way with me when he suddently broke into a wrestling promo during the middle of a show the following week, threatening Ole Anderson and the Four Horsemen and flashing the upside-down four fingers–the unofficial babyface gang sign of Sting, The Road Warriors and Lex Luger, circa WCW 1987. (You don’t hear too many comedians reference Ole Anderson nowadays, and that’s a crying shame.)
Tosh also frequently quotes Randy Savage and Hulk Hogan, including this clip, which, admittedly, is not his best work. Tosh is (usually) way funnier than “Soup” host Joel McHale–and he could totally kick his ass in a Texas Death match. And Tosh would make a great heel–I know there’s a point during each show where even I want to hit him with a steel chair and piledrive him on the hard concrete, before tossing him back into the ring and applying a Boston Crab and then finishing him with a small package.
| Tosh.0 | Tuesdays 10pm / 9c | |||
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I DVR this show every week, funny stuff!!
man I’ve been away from the south too long, you and Lance have really thick accents
also what we;re trying to do when you jumped the kings back, comb his hair?
I’ve lost that Southern accent a bit since moving to Los Angeles (most notably, I no longer say, “Fixin’ to”), which breaks my mother’s heart whenever we speak long distance. To my mom, I sound like “a Yankee” now. On top of that, marrying a British girl has sorta transformed my Southern accent into something that occasionally sounds Australian to some people.