ESPN2's Cold Pizza: The Today Show Connection

Cold Pizza is a good television show. It's a good show in the way that your most retarded friend, the guy who hangs around and is oblivious to the point of sheer admiration, is a good friend on general principal. Even if they kicked off Kit Hoover from the first Road Rules like ten years ago, Cold Pizza is quality TV.

The ESPN2 show has taken off ever since they changed the format about two years ago. They banished Kit (in case you're wondering, she's apparently doing correspondent work on the TV Guide Channel, ouch.), they hired Woody Paige and Skip Bayliss and BOOM! They had a hit show on their hands.

The winning factor in the Cold Pizza formula is its non-Sportscenter appeal. It's The Today Show for unemployed men basically, almost to a tee; the parallels are uncanny. The first hour or so of The Today Show is the equivalent to Sportscenter on ESPN-proper or even a good, healthy chunk of ESPNEWS (if you get that channel). Plain and simple, it's the news (or the highlights). For people getting ready for work, these segments act as frills-free, high-octane information networks. They get their prospective audiences the crap they want to intake (whatever it may be) and they send them off to work: Smiles, bellies full and brains saturated.

But the people who are stuck at home, or are there unwillingly, or are just plain social degenerates, need morning television too. That's why at about 8 or so, The Today Show becomes TV for housewives. It's all makeup tips, soap star interviews and childcare info. The same thing happens for the ESPN crowd.

At 10, when all the good and respecting men are getting into the heart of their workday, the unemployed/degenerate sect get to eat cereal and watch Cold Pizza (or, if you will, eat cold pizza and watch Cold Pizza-not recommended, for ironic purposes of course).

However, it's not just that Cold Pizza is "something to watch" because "TV is God"… it's genuinely entertaining. And while Kit Hoover was and is smoking hot in an adorable chipmunk kind of way, the addition of the "1st and 10" Woody and Skip segment has made the show what it is.

Cold Pizza...it's fucking yummy, man.

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