Now the joke wasn't horrible or racist, the delivery was bad and it just fell flat.
This unlike TNT's Ernie Johnson who knows how to deliver, "I'm the only white guy on" Inside The NBA"" with deadpan humor that doesn't go too far.
Gottlieb had yet to gain that trust from the CBS/TBS crew to deliver that joke effectively.
The next day, Doug Gottlieb later tried to apologize on Dan Patrick's radio show.
While Gottlieb should have said, "Dan, I thought it would be funny and I screwed it up. This proves I'm no comedian and certainly won't do a race joke again"...he basically threw Charles and Kenny under the bus by saying the joke didn't work because they didn't practice with him.
While I don't think Charles Barkley and Kenny Smith shouldn't be doing March Madness analysis anyway because they are NBA guys, not men's college basketball guys , Charles and Kenny don't rehearse because that's what make Inside The NBA great.
They fly by the seat of their pants, plus their show is on 1AM in the morning, (not prime-time).
Are their jokes always funny?
No, but there's a trust and chemistry between Charles and Kenny that works for them, so rehearsing is hardly needed.
By blaming them for his poor delivery, Doug Gottlieb only makes himself look worse.
I get where Doug going with his joke and his friends might have told him it was hilarious, but to be honest, Doug, like most guys are not that funny.
The only people who should really be apologizing is Gottlieb's friends to him for making him believe that the "Cream to the crop"...err, "Cream to the top" joke was funny.
This is true esssence of Dave Chappelle's "When Keeping it Real Goes Wrong"
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