It's no secret that I'm a huge wrestling fan. I watch "WWE Monday Night Raw" every week and order all the big pay-per-views, I even attend shows when they come to town. So imagine my excitement when it was announced that this week's guest host of "Raw" would be Jeremy Piven.
Piven was on to promote his new movie "The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard." As host he got to set matches and do skits with various WWE personalities.
The show started off strong with Piven earning cool points for entering to Public Enemy's "Can't Trust It" and for being accompanied by Ken Jeong, fresh off his scene-stealing appearance in "The Hangover" and his co-star in "The Goods." Though last night his wrestling name was Dr. Ken.
Jeong was dressed in a ridiculous leopard print coat that can only be described as pimp wear and spent the night completely committed to his crazy character.
Piven demonstrated a passing knowledge of WWE happenings but didn't seem as involved as last week's host Shaquille O'Neal, who is known to be a long time wrestling fan. At one point he even referred to the upcoming event "Summerslam" as Summerfest. However, that all changed at the end of the night when he perpetrated a classic double cross on John Cena and gave his opponent several advantages.
He ended the night trying to hit Cena from the top rope, unfortunately, he was caught midair and was used as a weapon against other wrestlers. Jeong then attacked Cena with his pimp cane, only to end up being thrown outside into the waiting arms of three wrestlers who didn't catch him enough causing him to hit his head pretty hard.
Despite this blunder I want to salute the wrestlers who have to work extra hard providing cover for the celebrities who come into their arena. It can't be easy to make Seth Green look like he can even phase a 200 pound man.
I have to say that Piven and Jeong appeared to be having fun and were in on the joke but I expected a little better acting from a three time Emmy winner.
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