Celebrity Idiocy

I know having a show on the UPN hardly qualifies you as a celebrity.

However.

When did Dan Cortese start pronouncing his last name "Kor-Tay-Zee?"

So that it kind of rhymes with Scorcese?

Yeah. Looks like someone's talent isn't enough to distinguish him, so he's taken to being a little uppity and pronouncing the name uniquely.

But some of us remember MTV Sports, when he was just simple old Dan Cor-tez.

One of the few skits The State did that openly mocked somebody was one where Kevin Allison portrayed Dan Cortese on the golf course. (Golf! Golf! Golf is a game! Golf is a game that you play!) He asked one golfer: What's your name, dude?

And golfer, who was not Frank Sinatra, replied: "Frank Sinatra...leave us the hell alone, please."

For some reason, the soundbite is even funnier than the TV set up. Look under Kevin Allisons's section, somewhere along the third or fourth episode for the sound in question.

Also: the funny of the day, from Bob Zany:

"Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez split up. Looks like they got as bored of each other as we were already."