Disgruntled Viewers Are Pranked By ‘Bizarre’ Rose Bowl Parade Commentary

To me, Will Ferrell and Molly Shannon represent an era of SNL gone by… a time when SNL was still cute, and irreverent, and FUNNY.

And who can forget this MASTERPIECE…

CLASSIC.

ANYWAYYYYYY Will and Molly teamed up yet again… p*ssing off quite a few people who weren’t in on the joke.

They “hosted” a parody version of the Rose Bowl parade. Those expecting actual coverage were BITTERLY disappointed.

Amazon had hyped this for a while… but apparently quite a few people missed the memo that it’s meant to be a joke.

According to this:

Will Ferrell and Molly Shannon hosted a Funny or Die parody of the 129th Rose Parade on Sunday – but some disgruntled viewers voiced their anger after believing it to be a real broadcast of the event.

The comedians played fictional TV hosts Cord Hosenbeck and Tish Cattigan tasked with live-streaming the Rose Bowl Parade in Pasadena, California, on New Year’s Day.

Amazon announced the live-streamed parody broadcast last November, but many viewers still believed it to be real.

In the episode, they poked fun at some of the marching bands and questioned whether a high school would ever be named after Donald Trump.

‘Do you think anyone will ever name a high school after Donald Trump? He’s so polarizing – can you imagine?’ Shannon asked.

Ferrell responded: ‘Not a public one, but one that you could buy a high school degree from without going to class, for sure.’

Eh… that doesn’t bother me. Like it or not, President Trump IS polarizing! We love him, the libs HAAAAATE him. That’s polarizing!

But again… it doesn’t bother me KNOWING it’s SUPPOSED to be a joke… I’d be kind of annoyed too if these were real commentators.

Some reviewers slammed the parody’s hosts, calling the broadcast ‘disrespectful’ and ‘not funny’, with some saying they would never watch the parade again.

‘Was so excited to have a way to watch the Parade since we don’t have cable but the people doing the commentary were awful, disrespectful, and not funny. Will be turning off and not watching again,’ one one-star reviewer wrote.

Another reviewer said: ‘Please stop talking!!!! Can’t hear any of the bands. You say listen in and keep talking. Perhaps your [mics] are still on and don’t know it? We want to hear the bands not you two. I really don’t care that you are afraid of horses.’

One reviewer called ‘terrible’, adding that they ‘couldn’t stomach’ more than 30 minutes of the parade.

The review said: ‘The hosts were awful not giving any facts about the floats or commenting on wat we were seeing. Instead they were harassing Tim Meadows about his time on Saturday Night Live (something he told them clearly on two separate occasions that he didn’t want to discuss).

‘They kept thinking they were off mic and having conversations, the general public didn’t want to hear or were appropriate.

‘Overall the two hosts were annoying, immature and shouldn’t be given the privellage to host in the future! I expected to discuss the flowers used, how long it took, people riding on the float and some general observations about what they were seeing.

‘We recieved [sic] none of that! I will not be watching this in the future. Thank you Mr. Cord especially for ruining our Rose Parade 2018 viewing experience.’

I’m going to be honest… I have little sympathy for these people. Get it together, folks. It wasn’t hard to figure out this was a joke. Amazon has hyped it forever. If you didn’t know that, all you had to do was look up the broadcast… and then go find the real one.

None of this surprises me, as we get stuff like this all the time. Just the other we had a woman in the Facebook comments go OFF on Hannah for saying she “wasn’t a big fan of Trump’s.” The kicker… it was in quotes. Hannah was quoting someone ELSE who wasn’t a big fan of Trump’s. The woman was told this, repeatedly, by many other readers. Instead of realizing she had made a mistake, she doubled-down on how Hannah was “still disrespectful.”

Um… for quoting someone? Should we only ever quote people who we agree with? That would make for a pretty dull website, wouldn’t it?

People don’t really want to know WHAT they’re upset about… they just want to be upset.

It’s something we could probably all work on. Here’s to 2018… the year of figuring out what you’re looking at before you start yelling!