{"id":19565,"date":"2015-06-27T08:00:23","date_gmt":"2015-06-27T15:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/?p=19565"},"modified":"2015-06-27T18:23:10","modified_gmt":"2015-06-28T01:23:10","slug":"10-gut-reactions-hbos-andy-samberg-tennis-mockumentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/awesomeness\/10-gut-reactions-hbos-andy-samberg-tennis-mockumentary\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Gut Reactions to HBO&#8217;s Andy Samberg Tennis Mockumentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Look, I know I&#8217;m a bit behind on this one, but I can&#8217;t just watch the trailer for\u00a0<em>7 Days in Hell<\/em> and not react in some tangible, documented way. Not only is Andy Samberg leading a mockmentary about a seven-day-long tennis match against\u00a0<em>Game of Thrones&#8217;<\/em> Kit Harrington, but there&#8217;s a cast of such strange diversity as to compel a desire to see an actual documentary about the wrap party for this whole thing.<\/p>\n<p>Just watch the trailer, if you haven&#8217;t already:<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"620\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rpsMi3Q2fok\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>A number of things come to mind. Instead of simply putting them in a paragraph and calling it a day, I&#8217;m going to list them for the sake of a more compelling headline. And, frankly, I do feel a bit like organically regurgitating all the strange thoughts that ran through my head as I saw these odd images flashing across my screen.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Andy Samberg is just goofy enough to rock any hairdo on the planet.<a href=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/7-Days-in-Hell.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19570\" src=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/7-Days-in-Hell.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"7 Days in Hell\" width=\"1213\" height=\"655\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/7-Days-in-Hell.jpg 1213w, https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/7-Days-in-Hell-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/7-Days-in-Hell-1024x553.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1213px) 100vw, 1213px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Kit Harrington is not, but, given the success of his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BabsgCQhpu4\" target=\"_blank\">last comedic role<\/a>, he might prove me wrong.<\/li>\n<li>John McEnroe is the MVP of sports parody.<\/li>\n<li>Serena Williams gets a line about race &#8211; trouble officially asked for.<\/li>\n<li>I take back every thing I said about Kit Harrington: &#8220;I don&#8217;t know what the word strategy means, Brian Gumbel.&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Kit-Harrington-7-Days-in-Hell.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19569\" src=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Kit-Harrington-7-Days-in-Hell.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Kit Harrington 7 Days in Hell\" width=\"1195\" height=\"672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Kit-Harrington-7-Days-in-Hell.jpg 1195w, https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Kit-Harrington-7-Days-in-Hell-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Kit-Harrington-7-Days-in-Hell-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1195px) 100vw, 1195px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Tennis is an inherently comedic sport.<\/li>\n<li>Five minute grunting montage? Is that a guarantee?<\/li>\n<li>Confusion.<a href=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Howie-Mandel.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19568\" src=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Howie-Mandel.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Howie Mandel 7 Days in Hell\" width=\"1420\" height=\"902\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Howie-Mandel.jpg 1420w, https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Howie-Mandel-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Howie-Mandel-1024x650.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1420px) 100vw, 1420px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Where is Kristen Wiig in all of this? Oh right, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=s6U-e_83RGQ\" target=\"_blank\">she&#8217;s doing this&#8230;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>All else equal,\u00a0<em>7 Days in Hell\u00a0<\/em>would be objectively funnier if it aired on ESPN, but only because ESPN is incapable of self-awareness.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Instead,\u00a0<em>7 Days in Hell\u00a0<\/em>debuts on HBO streaming services on July 8. However this goes, thanks HBO and Andy Samberg. Just, thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look, I know I&#8217;m a bit behind on this one, but I can&#8217;t just watch the trailer for\u00a07 Days in Hell and not react in some tangible, documented way. Not only is Andy Samberg leading a mockmentary about a seven-day-long tennis match against\u00a0Game of Thrones&#8217; Kit Harrington, but there&#8217;s a cast of such strange diversity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":19575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1326,473],"class_list":["post-19565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awesomeness","tag-7-days-in-hell","tag-hbo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19565"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19574,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19565\/revisions\/19574"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}