Sports comedy pilot seeks slot

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on January 6th, 2006

According to the Daily News, comedian Paul Mercurio has produced (along with The Ben Stiller Show and Mad TV veteran Jim Jones) a pilot called Sports Central.

…The half-hour show, now being eyed by several networks for a 2006 lineup spot, skewers the sports world, leaving no mascot unharmed.

It does to ESPN and other sports-obsessed news desks what Stephen Colbert does to Bill O’Reilly-style punditry on The Colbert Report and David Spade does with “ET”-esque infotainment on The Showbiz Show.

We hope the name gets changed before it finds a home, but, now that sports and politics are taken, could there be more fertile comedy ground than sports? (There is– Springer-style shows– but, for some reason, Timothy Stack‘s wicked satire of that genre, Night Stand, wasn’t as huge a success as it should have been.)