News came this week that “The Show,” the alleged humor column penned in Sports Illustrated by former Letterman writer Bill Scheft, is no more. Scheft, who recently got one of the more inexplicable book contracts in history to write a “best of” the column, ends it with a self-deprecating joke: “Here are the final stats: 140 columns, 2,872 jokes, 36 actual laughs.” Not self-deprecating enough, I’d say- Scheft overstates the laughs by a factor of four or five.
(Also in the last column, Scheft included this joke: “The Giants plan to retire Gaylord Perry's number in July. It'll all be part of K-Y Appreciation Day. “ At first I thought it was a gay joke, about “Gaylord,” until I remembered that Perry was notorious for doctoring baseballs. Not sure if Frank Robinson ever called him on it though).
Interestingly, we learned in last week’s issue that longtime SI golf writer Herbert Warren Wind recently passed away, and that Wind’s nephew was none other than Bill Scheft himself. Well, now we know why Bill got the column. Funny that he should suddenly lose it mere weeks after his uncle’s passing…
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