Page added on November 11, 2009

Email this to a friendEmail This Post Email This Post                      Printable versionPrintable version

Bill Simmons Wife Picture

Bill Simmons Wife Picture:For those of who have seen his popularity swell into the stratosphere the last few years, it wasn’t a surprise to see Bill Simmons atop the bestseller list. But it should have been.

Daulerio will never admit this, and I probably shouldn’t, but on January 23, 2003, we, along with fellow Black Table editor Eric Gillin, a Boston guy, stayed up to watch the debut of “The Jimmy Kimmel Show.” We did this solely because Bill Simmons was a writer for the show. I’m not sure what we were expecting to see: Late-night talk shows aren’t in the habit of giving guest appearances to lower-tier writers in their first episodes. (The show was a mess: This is back when they were openly drinking on set, and it was chaos. I think at one point, Kimmel tried to deep fat fry a ventriloquist dummy while “guest” Adam Corolla plaintively attempted to remind a piss-drunk Kimmel that “YOU ARE ON TELEVISION RIGHT NOW.”) But it felt important somehow. A television show smart enough to hire Bill Simmons to write for them, well, that was something we couldn’t miss. We felt like we knew him.

Bill Simmons Wife PictureIt’s easy to forget this now, now that sports blogs are everywhere, now that Simmons is as much of an establishment figure as Chris Berman, now that the man produces his own television show, but back when he first came to ESPN, in 2001, he seemed like a revolutionary figure. I remember working in a doctor’s office in May 2001 and reading his Is Roger Clemens the Antichrist? column. (I was not familiar with his Boston Sports Guy work.) I couldn’t believe someone was getting away with this. Today, phrases like “kicked in the gonads,” “this was the musical equivalent of U2 asking for a contract extension from their record company on the heels of “Zooropa” and “Pop”)” and “looking like he was auditioning for the ‘Chris Farley Story’” are familiar Simmons tropes: Everyone writes like that now. But not in 2001. In 2001, Skip Bayless was the “hip” columnist at Page 2. The other column I vividly remember from the period was Simmons’ guide to the Atlanta Gold Club trial, which featured graphic descriptions of Patrick Ewing receiving oral sex from two women and this immortal aside:continue

Related Posts with Thumbnails

Bookmark and Share ->





->

FEATURES, VIEWS & REVIEWS

World News

World News
World Breaking News Update, U.S News, Pakistani News, Pak News, World News, Local news, World today Breaking news instantly.

U.S News

U.S News
Latest news updates from U.S – U.S.News updates

Entertrainment News

Entertrainment News
Entertainment News from Bollywood news,Lollywood news celebrity news celebrity gossip and latest Entertainment news.





LATEST NEWS HEADLINES

ALSO IN THE NEWS

More H1N1 shots thumbnail More H1N1 shots

3 comment found! More H1N1 shots : 3/13/2010 US$2.50 – $20 a shot. leh me see, dah is howmuch now? aaahhmmmn..BDS $5 – $40 a pop, times 20000 fuh one batch

MORE STORIES

Baltimore pastor visiting Jersey City church for Women’s Day – The Jersey Journal thumbnail Baltimore pastor visiting Jersey City church for Women’s Day – The Jersey Journal

World News

World News World News online business financial news and breaking business news financial news and market news updates

Health News

Health News Read Latest Health News what happening in world recent health news, health news articles medical news

MORE NEWS HEADLINES