Megyn Kelly Gets Giggly Over Gay Softball Team That Wasn’t Gay Enough
There are a lot of terrible news stories out there these days, so it’s nice to see news anchors and pundits find a story that they actually enjoy reporting. Sure enough, Megyn Kelly and the ladies of “Kelly’s Court” discussing the patently bizarre story of a softball team in a gay softball league that was kicked out for not being “gay enough” is cable news gold. Some highlights and the video after the jump.
While the story of the North American Gay Amateur Athletic Alliance and the lawsuit against it isn’t the most interesting “not gay enough” story this year (that prize goes to this doozy) it’s probably the most entertaining. It’s so quirky that the copywriters at Fox News seemingly took a page from the New York Post‘s headline writing staff to write Kelly’s intro to the piece.
“On the docket today, gay softball players accused of playing for the wrong team. A few fabulous boys of summer are suing the North American Gay Amateur Athletic Alliance. Their team suspended and stripped of a second place trophy after it was determined that they were not gay enough for the Gay Softball World Series. You cannot make this stuff up.”
“Fabulous boys of summer?” Is the word “fabulous” even still popular in the gay community? We will give them credit for the “wrong team” line. Sometimes the most obvious jokes are the funniest.
While Kelly did put ridiculous emphasis on the word “gay” every time she said it (and also seemed to stifle a giggle whenever she said the phrase “gay league”), all the little jokes in the segment seemed to stay just on the side of slight political incorrectness instead of all out offensive. However, there were a couple of interesting incidents. At the 4:19 point in the video below, watch the awkward moment as Jonna Spilbor begins to make some kind of joke and then stop herself. Kelly set her up for the comedy lay up that never came.
“Kelly: What was it in the behavior on the field that made them say, ‘You’re not one of us?’
Spilbor: You know, maybe somebody slid home instead of…I don’t know”
Aw, come on, Jonna! Don’t leave us hanging! We can only assume the punchline she had in mind wasn’t going to be “instead of running across the plate when the catcher had a good chance of tagging him out so sliding would have made more sense and, by the way, homosexuals can play sports just like us regular people.”
Even odder was when Spilbor’s opponent in the piece, Lis Wiehl, brings up the ethnicities of the players for no discernible reason! Like Kelly says, you cannot make this stuff up.
Either way, it’s segments like this that make cable news (and Kelly’s Court in particular) so ridiculously entertaining.
