LATE NIGHT CURLING
Curling made it to late-night television in 2002 during its play at the Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah. That’s when the titans of American talks shows—Jay Leno and David Letterman—made light of the cult hit. Leno had a joke about it during his opening monologue on February 19, 2002, saying: “Did you see the curling today? Pretty exciting. The gold medal ended up going to a Brazilian cleaning team.”
Letterman used curling as a theme for one of his famous Top 10 lists. It was titled: “10 Ways to Make Curling More Exciting.”
10. How about calling it anything but curling?
9. Instead of weird lookin’ Norwegian dudes in sweaters—babes in lingerie.
8. Only allow French judges.
7. Sweep the stone toward the hog line and then…okay, I don’t know crap about curling.
6. Is it too much to ask for one curler to bite another curler?
5. Throw in one of them miniature-golf windmills.
4. Instead of a granite stone, use the frozen head of Walt Disney.
3. 40% of final score comes from the swimsuit competition.
2. You don’t think curling is exciting? What are you, insane?
1. First place gets gold medal, the rest are sent to Camp X-Ray.