More commentary....

As a kid, I was never that interested in sport, and i'm still not. Well, I like Slamball, but there's just not enough network coverage to be a real fan. I just didn't really care, I can watch Football if others want to, but to quote Tony Martin i'm pretty much a sporting dyslexic. I can appreciate the gladiatorial nature of the activity, but I can't really discern between a good player and a bad player at all. All football looks pretty much like the same game being played over and over again.
However, I did kind of want to be a commentator. I loved (and still do) Roy and HG calling pretty much anything, and after many hours of listening to Get This, Rex Hunt is just too funny to hear.
A great commentary can lift sports above a boring show of strength, and a great commentator can be insightful, funny and poignant all at the same time.
Like this guy here.


Dennis Cometti is funny as hell, and pretty much an improv genius. He's been a commentator for almost 40 years, and i'm more than happy to watch a whole game of Football just in case there's some comedy gold slipped in there on the sly.
Here's a collection of some great Cometti improv.

"Scotty Cummings alone in the square, jumping up and down and waving his arms like they're playing My Sharona"

"A couple of big touches from Clive Waterhouse, who was battling up until about 5 minutes ago, in danger of becoming Clive Waterboy."

Dermott: And the ball spills free to Kickett...
Cometti: Troy Cook you mean?
Dermott: Yes.. well, they do look rather alike.
Cometti: How so Dermott?
Dermott: (realising that sounded rather racist.) Umm, well, they are both..er..
Cometti: .. Midfielders, yes Dermott.

This one from Melb v Coll last year:
Healy: Word is this guy is the most reliable kick for goal in the side. They say down at Collingwood if you had to have someone kicking for your life, Tarkyn Lockyer would be the man
Commetti: I'd prefer my mum
(silence)
Commetti: Not a great footballer, but at least she'd care.

"Ashley McIntosh, like a good hair spray... capable of a subtle hold"

"Barlow to Bateman, the Hawks are attacking alphabetically"

"Carl Steinfort looking more like Robert Walls than Robert Walls"

"Bell bringing the ball out of the back line..... looking for wide runners..... passes to Walker... a contradiction in terms, really"

"The only change to the Eagles side is that Rowan Jones has had a haircut"

"Farmer may have an injury to his calf........ hmmm, a farmer with a calf problem."

Dennis: "Dear shoots... waiting on the goal umpire.... he's kicked a behind. A wry smile there from the goal umpire, certainly a sense of the dramatic."
Don Scott: "He's the danger man, Dennis."
Dennis: "Who? The goal umpire?"

"It's a goal! A dream start for Hawthorn. Spider had both his legs taken out from under him - leaving only the other six to balance on....."

"I love that surname Fixter. Sounds like something from a Batman movie -The Fixter? but I digress..."

Last night when Richmond kicked up the middle towards Ray Hall:"Richmond attack through the corridor, in this case the Hall."

Tony Liberatore had just gone into a pack as he is wont to do and come out with blood gushing from his eye: "Libba went into the pack optimistically and came out misty optically."

I think it was the Freo/Pies game last week and Dennis, after describing the second of 2 easy dropped marks says, "the Tale of Two Sitters".

When Mark went up for a mark: "... and the Mercuri is rising..."

Dermie: "Why do you suppose he went side on to take the mark?"
Dennis: "He probably was trying to impress the Russian judge."

"Richardson contests the ruck.... without much conviction. Well, he may be the best player on their list........ well, certainly Matthew thinks he's the best player on their list at the moment...... mind you, that's a bit like being the best Centre Half Forward in Czechoslovakia....."

"Almost a touch of synchronised swimming about that mark..... minus the peg..."

"Ball in dispute, Lamb, now Yze the meat in the sandwich. Really Lamb should be in the sandwich."

"If it was a set play, they copied it from a Portugese bus time-table"

"Great stuff by Caracella - moments before McIntosh had treated him like a rent-a- car".


Peace.