Web Redemption: give it another shot
ESPN , compared with Daniel Tosh
Find the person from an embarrassing viral fail video, interview them, and ask whether they are willing to give it another shot.
“give it another shot”
SportsCenter — "Awesome Video Segment", 2014quote source ↗find on YouTube ↗
“Are you ready to give it another shot?”
Tosh.0 (Comedy Central) — "Web Redemption"quote source ↗find on YouTube ↗
Same format and the same give-it-another-shot ask; ESPN says the phrase is common, and only its first episode is on record.
- Premise 37/40
- Structure 26/30
- Punchline 24/30
- Premise37/40Both bring back the subject of an embarrassing viral fail and ask them to try again.
- Structure26/30Same segment shape: find the person, interview them, offer another attempt.
- Punchline24/30Both hinge on the phrase give it another shot, which ESPN called a common phrase.
Setup
Revisit a viral fail: an anthem singer who slipped at a hockey game.
Setup
Revisit the subject of a viral humiliation video.
Turn
Interview the person behind the clip.
Turn
Bring the person in and interview them.
Punchline
Ask him to give it another shot.
Punchline
Ask if they are ready to give it another shot.
In the words themselves
75% of the meaningful words are shared · longest identical run: “give it another shot”. Shared words are highlighted in the quotes above.
Scores and beats are our editorial reading of the public record, not a ruling.
Context
When and where
'Web Redemption' was a recurring segment on Comedy Central's Tosh.0 in which people from embarrassing viral videos get another try. SportsCenter launched its 'Awesome Video Segment' in November 2014 with anthem singer Mark Donnelly, whom it asked to 'give it another shot'.
What followed
Tosh called ESPN hacks on air and parodied its Sport Science segment as "Sport Science.0." ESPN told TMZ it was using a common phrase rather than copying him and kept the segment going.
Receipts
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Daniel Tosh by Comedy Partners, CC BY-SA 4.0