10 Funniest 'So Bad They're Good' Promos | partsFUNknown
Señior Joe. I DON'T KNOW. Lucha Things. There have been some classic 'so bad they're good' promos over the years. Adam's here to give you the funniest ones.
00:00 - Start
01:08 - Honorable Mention
01:32 - 10
02:37 - 9
03:46 - 8
04:46 - 7
05:38 - 6
06:33 - 5
07:24 - 4
08:21 - 3
09:11 - 2
10:10 - 1
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Señior Joe. I DON'T KNOW. Lucha Things. There have been some classic 'so bad they're good' promos over the years. Adam's here to give you the funniest ones.
00:00 - Start
01:08 - Honorable Mention
01:32 - 10
02:37 - 9
03:46 - 8
04:46 - 7
05:38 - 6
06:33 - 5
07:24 - 4
08:21 - 3
09:11 - 2
10:10 - 1
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00:00 Talking, hey, what's all that about?
00:02 Putting a number of sounds together in recognizable sequences to convey information, or emotion,
00:07 or an idea?
00:08 The ability of a good promo might actually be more important to the art of wrestling
00:11 than wrestling itself.
00:13 A good promo sells tickets, a good promo makes a star, a good promo puts your butt in the
00:18 seat, and ultimately, if two wrestlers wrestle in the woods and there's no one around to
00:22 see it, then honestly how much longer can Impact stay in business?
00:25 That was mean.
00:26 The industry is full of amazing promos cut by amazing talent, some that have even revolutionized
00:30 how wrestling can be presented in the modern age.
00:33 Hi Colt Cabana, how are you in fact doing?
00:35 And then there's bad promos, poorly delivered, boring, a waste of everyone's time, and then
00:41 there's the item off the secret menu, the wrestling promo that's so bad, so gloriously
00:45 awful that it goes full circle and becomes iconic in its own way.
00:49 I'm Adam, hailing from partsFUNknown, and here are our 10 funniest so bad they're good
00:54 promos.
00:55 If you'd like to see nothing but good promos, then subscribe to partsFUNknown.
00:59 We're always cutting promos on each other and doing very silly wrestling things, most
01:05 of which are bad, but most of them are so bad they are good.
01:09 Honorable mention, Shockmaster's debut.
01:11 Because honestly it's one of the most overmentioned promos in wrestling history, but how can a
01:14 man kool-aiding himself into existence before landing on his bejazzled stormtrooper face
01:19 and lip syncing a promo whilst desperately trying to wipe the egg from that face while
01:23 some of the best wrestlers in NWA history and Sid stand around and try not to piss themselves,
01:28 how can that not at least poke its head around the corner and say hello and then fall over?
01:32 10.
01:33 Gangrel destroys his whole character
01:35 All vampires end up directing porn.
01:37 It's like all dogs go to heaven, but with porn.
01:40 Before he went into the only business for more grunts and fluids and professional wrestling,
01:44 Gangrel was one of the most instantly awesome gimmicks in the Attitude era.
01:48 His flaming entrance, his awesome music that combined muzak and heavy breathing better
01:52 than any of the stuff he would direct later in his career, his bloodbath shenanigans,
01:56 his harem of lovely blonde Canadian boys, it's just such a shame they once put a microphone
02:01 in his hand.
02:02 On an episode of Shotgun Saturday Night in October '98, Gangrel came to the ring to
02:06 call out Edge and oh, it's bad lads.
02:09 The juxtaposition of the cool, supernatural badass with how he cut his promo like a loud,
02:14 inarticulate high school jock talking whilst desperately trying to do algebra in his head
02:18 and the only ways he knows to do that is gargle marbles.
02:21 It's so sadly funny.
02:23 And to be clear, that's WWE's fault.
02:25 If a character is cool without saying a word, then don't have him say words, especially
02:30 when the words are this hilariously awful.
02:37 Number 9.
02:38 Luther Rains has had peas before.
02:40 This one's just weird.
02:41 You can cut promos on pretty much anything.
02:42 You can cut a promo on a person, on an event, on an entire company.
02:46 Luther Rains once cut a promo on Thanksgiving itself.
02:49 It's not really a weird idea.
02:51 Baby faces celebrate a holiday, out comes a heel, tell everyone why the holiday sucks.
02:55 Reliable heat.
02:56 And on an episode of Smackdown in November 2004, Luther Rains interrupted a very big
03:00 show Thanksgiving.
03:01 Joy Giovanni made a giant buffet in the middle of the ring no less, thank you Joy, all seemingly
03:07 for the big show, who cuts an incredibly long promo and invites Taz to come grab some pie.
03:12 Luther Rains, Roman Reigns' older brother, and that's absolutely true, trust me, came
03:16 down and cut an impassioned promo about how when he grew up, they didn't have Thanksgiving.
03:21 So far, so fine.
03:22 But then Luther gets into the ring and continues his promo, angrily telling Joy to fix him
03:26 a Thanksgiving plate.
03:28 And it's so funny.
03:29 Like, he's still raging, but now he's also demanding mashed potatoes, with the highlight
03:34 of the promo being Reigns screaming into the mic, "Give me some of them peas.
03:39 I've had peas before."
03:40 Amazing.
03:41 And I've looked it up, and it's true.
03:43 Luther Rains has an actual fact.
03:45 He's had peas before.
03:46 8.
03:47 A Steamboat and a Dog
03:48 Don "The Rock" Morocco may not be a name that's instantly memorable to modern WWE
03:52 fans, mostly because another "The Rock" came along and was ever so slightly more famous,
03:57 but he's had some accomplishments.
03:58 Unofficial King of the Ring, he held the Intercontinental title for over a year in the early 80s, and
04:03 he also cut one of the most hilariously awful promos committed to film.
04:07 In 1986, the hyper-tag match between Ricky Steamboat and the Junkyard Dog vs Morocco
04:11 and Mr. Fuji, Morocco told an incomprehensible story of how a steamboat, not Ricky Steamboat,
04:17 but an actual steamboat, made friends with a dog, including a snarling impression of
04:23 said dog.
04:24 To try and save the segment, Mean Gene points out a number on Morocco's jersey, to which
04:29 he responds, "It's all the numbers.
04:31 It's all time and numbers and space."
04:35 Uh-oh, thinks Mean Gene.
04:36 Don has no idea what he's saying.
04:38 And Morocco continues, "Maybe 64, maybe 65, maybe 46 in somebody else's eyes."
04:43 Don, what are you talking about?
04:46 7.
04:47 Lucha Things
04:48 Oh, the joy.
04:49 The sheer joy of Lucha Things.
04:51 An iconically bad promo, and honestly, one of Kalisto's biggest legacies from his time
04:55 in WWE, and Kalisto, we're really sorry about that.
04:58 But also, no one is sorry, because it's absolutely wonderful.
05:00 In 2016, to coincide with Smackdown going live on Tuesdays, WWE reinstated the draft, once
05:06 again dividing its roster into people who suddenly really liked wearing red t-shirts,
05:09 and people who would murder you in your bed if you ever suggested they wear something
05:12 other than a blue t-shirt.
05:14 As part of the draft, several wrestlers got an interview about how they felt being on
05:17 their brand and wearing their new t-shirt, including Kalisto, who cut a promo like he
05:21 was being held at gunpoint, muttering something about doing "good lucha things", which
05:26 I think is the technical term, before having an almost complete nervous breakdown, and
05:30 then just running away, shouting "Wahoo!" as he did so, which I believe is Spanish for
05:35 "Oh, I've just fucked up in the funniest way humanly possible."
05:38 6.
05:39 McMahon's Million Dollar Mania
05:41 No one human being could ever destroy the sexual tyrannosaur that is Vincent Kennedy
05:46 McMahon.
05:47 He's the genetic jackhammer, his grapefruits were forged in the fires of Mount Doom, and
05:51 he has no allergies.
05:52 However, he's also a grandpa who doesn't know how to operate a phone, and loathe the
05:56 duality of man.
05:57 In one of WWE's infamous blunders, a scheme so dog-ass that even WWE have no choice but
06:02 to make fun of it themselves, Vince launched McMahon's Million Dollar Mania in 2008.
06:07 Basically to boost ratings, Vince would randomly call people live on air, and if they could
06:11 prove they were watching Raw, they'd win some money.
06:13 It was a beautiful disaster.
06:16 People weren't home, kept putting Vince on hold, with the hold music being, amazingly,
06:20 "Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley.
06:22 Vince Rickrolled himself live on TV, all while getting increasingly flustered and cutting
06:27 awkward promos about these kids and their darn fancy landline technology.
06:32 Wonderful.
06:33 5.
06:34 Your T-Shirts Are Too Tight Too, Billy
06:35 Cut from Vince's old man yelling at clouds, to Lex's old man yelling at shirts.
06:40 It's one of the most famous wrestling shit promos, a meme-able favourite of wrestling
06:44 botch hunters like OSW or Botchamania.
06:47 In 2004, which is over a decade after Lex Luger's heyday in WWE, he was cutting a
06:51 promo for Cyberspace Wrestling Federation, founded by Billy Firehawk.
06:55 But I'm not entirely sure that Lex was happy with how the promotion was treating
06:59 him.
07:00 Difficult to tell, except no it isn't at all, as Lex cuts, arguably, the most impassioned
07:04 promo of his entire career, railing against whether or not the promotion could even afford
07:07 to pay him, screaming the iconic "I don't know" straight down the lens before trying
07:13 and failing to rip his t-shirt over his head, screaming almost purple with rage, "And
07:17 your t-shirts are too tight too, Billy!"
07:19 Come for Billy Firehawk's financials if you must, Lex, but you f***ing leave the t-shirts
07:23 out of it.
07:24 Number 4.
07:25 Yep.
07:26 Talking about this is pretty mean, but also gosh darn hilarious because it's the answer
07:30 to the age-old question, what if a newborn deer cut a wrestling promo?
07:34 Jump in, Jeff.
07:35 As white-meater babyfaces you could get, was cutting a promo in IPW against Motley Crue,
07:39 a man who evidently had turned some sort of tables on him, in an interview segment that
07:43 carries the heartbreaking subtitle "Recorded Earlier", which suggests they had the opportunity
07:48 to not air it, or crazier, still get a better take, and they chose not to.
07:52 Honestly, it's hard to tell through the grain, but Jeff Farmer looks on the verge of tears
07:56 at all times, and not tears of rage, tears because he's only just been born and wants
08:00 a nappy nap instead of cutting a promo.
08:03 He starts the promo by saying "Yep", then a pause you could drive a bus through, before
08:07 mumbling sadly about how he doesn't like when things aren't my going my way, before finding
08:12 a semblance of babyface fire, having no idea what to say next, instead screaming "This
08:16 time I'm going full force!"
08:19 Poor lad.
08:21 3.
08:22 Sid's Brain
08:23 I mean, all Sid promos would have been a fine title for this entry.
08:26 The man talks like refrigerator poetry, but the only magnets available are ones that read
08:30 incomprehensible yelling, and the refrigerator's full of murderers.
08:34 His infamous "We're live, pal" blunder is a pure joy, as well as the backstage segment
08:38 where he finds his flat and car and yells "Goldberg!" with all the intensity of King Lear being
08:43 disembowelled by an even crazier King Lear, but got to go with the one that's so funny
08:47 it pops the boys.
08:48 Then in WCW he confronts the Outsiders in the ring, Kevin Nash is wearing a mask to
08:52 look like Sid, god he looks like Oz's son, and Sid drops the bomb on them that they are
08:57 half the man that he is, and of course, that Sid has half the brain that they do.
09:03 Cue the late great Scott Hall repeating what Sid said in Kevin Nash's ear, and both men
09:07 flat out pissing themselves, laughing the most joyful of wrestling bollocks.
09:11 2.
09:12 The Genesis of McGillicuddy
09:14 Oh Curtis Axel, you were too good for this world.
09:16 A one-man wheelbarrow of endearing wrestling crap, let us count the ways that you entertained
09:21 us with Axelmania, lovely, with "The Chains are off!"
09:26 amazing, shouting "This is supposed to be serious?
09:29 I'm a serious wrestler" in a Saturday morning slam match with Sheamus that ended with Curtis
09:33 Axel accidentally rolling up and trying to pin the referee, whatever the whole "yee,
09:37 yee" thing was, but his masterpiece of terrible wrestling glory was of course, the Genesis
09:43 of McGillicuddy.
09:44 A supposed to be serious promo he cut on the old game show era of NXT, where he tried to
09:49 big up his future in the company by saying "and here it is word for word" and starting
09:53 this moment, from now, from this moment on, this will be the moment, starting now, of
10:03 the Genesis of McGillicuddy.
10:06 Brevity is not the soul of wit, Mr Perfect's son is the soul of wit.
10:10 And number one, all Scott Steiner promos.
10:13 I mean how do you choose?
10:14 History's most sexually charged lunatic, cutting promos where he screams gymnasium
10:18 jazz into the world and if you can't decode his special messages, then that's just your
10:22 genetically inferior fat asses fault.
10:25 He's a promo cutting force that can't be controlled, will not be controlled, especially by the
10:29 pencil neck geeks over at TNA, who had no choice but to sit back and watch him scream
10:33 extraordinary nonsense over their airwaves.
10:36 The promo he cuts on Team 3D and their fat asses is hall of fame worthy, but of course,
10:41 how could it be anything other than Steiner maths for the top spot, a madman's manifesto
10:46 and a one man crusade against meaning itself.
10:48 You know they say all men are created equal, but you look at me and you look at Samoa Joe
10:52 and you can see that statement is not true.
10:54 See normally if you go one on one with another wrestler you've got a 50/50 chance of winning,
10:57 but I'm a genetic freak and I'm not normal, so you've got a 25% chance at best at beat
11:02 me, then you add Kurt Angle to the mix, your chances of winning drastically go down.
11:07 See the three way at sacrifice you've got 33 and a third chance of winning, but I, I
11:11 got a 66 and two thirds chance of winning because Kurt Angle knows he can't beat me
11:16 and he's not even going to try.
11:17 So Samoa Joe you take your 33 and a third chance minus my 25% chance and you've got
11:22 an 8 and a third chance of winning at sacrifice, but then you take my 75% chance of winning
11:28 if we was to go one on one and then add 66 two thirds percents and I got 104 two thirds
11:34 chance of winning at sacrifice.
11:36 See Joe the numbers don't lie and they spell disaster for you at sacrifice.
11:41 Sheer wrestling perfection.
11:44 Thank the Lord for Big Poppa Pump.
11:46 And that's our list.
11:47 What's your favourite terrible promo?
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