Suburbarazzi

Yanks announcer Michael Kay meets ‘Brobot,’ a.k.a. my bud Bobby Moynihan

July

Some things in life just make me smile. Beagle puppies. Deluxe cheeseburgers. Amy Adams. Anything Bunk says on “The Wire.” And funny commercials.

But amusing ads inspire a wider grin when it combines a Yankees broadcaster (YES Network play-by-play man, Michael Kay), a rising comedy star (Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre icon Bobby Moynihan) and legit connections to the Lower Hudson Valley (Kay is a Hartsdale resident; Moynihan just happens to be a good friend of mine since our days as students at Eastchester Middle School).

Here’s the 30-second TV commercial for Kay’s ESPN talk-radio show. If you’re not at least cracking a smile once the “Brobot” kicks in, I don’t want to know you. Or at the very least, I don’t want to know you don’t like it.

I also found a 15-second version of the same commercial with an alternate ending involving “siz-zl-ing ba-con.” A worthy sequel, for certain.

Moynihan told me Kay was great to work with on the set, going so far as to call him “the bomb.” I’ve met Kay on a couple of occasions about a decade apart and I, too, can attest to this.

And if you’re asking, “Hey, is Michael Kay worthy of Suburbarazzi status?” He is for at least two reasons.

For starters, Page Six recently had an item about him in the Hamptons. Listen to Kay respond to the report, courtesy of a link from his radio-show Web site: here

And two, any celebrity is allowed to make the cut if deemed worthy by our esteemed panel of experts—picture Ted, Aman and me in judges’ robes and/or lab coats.

How dare you hypothetically question our authority!

(Photo by Mark Vergari/The Journal News.)

This entry was posted on Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 at 8:00 am by Chris Serico.
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One Response to “Yanks announcer Michael Kay meets ‘Brobot,’ a.k.a. my bud Bobby Moynihan”

Aman Ali July 23rd, 2008 at 10:42 am
Chris, you forgot to mention that the panel of judges are wearing nothing but the robes.

Now that you are all finished dry heaving from that uncomfortable visual, I have issued a Suburbarazzi fatwa making this posting permissible on this blog. Shalom and gesundheit.

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