Watching RAW....re: Rob Bartlett

[YAKMAN is ICHIBAN]

I started watching RAW from the first episode on. How much longer is this guy around? Just watched the episode with him as "Elvis." I think he's easily as unbearable as anything I've ever watched.

Where did they find this guy?!

[A Platypus Rave]

Heenan asks vince this on camera I believe Vince's response was something along the lines of on the street begging for change.

Bartlett almost makes some of those early raws unwatchable.

[Gopher Mod]

Sept 11, 2014 8:31:17 GMT -5 YAKMAN is ICHIBAN said:

I started watching RAW from the first episode on. How much longer is this guy around? Just watched the episode with him as "Elvis." I think he's easily as unbearable as anything I've ever watched.

Where did they find this guy?!

If my memory serves, they found him in the NYC Comedy circuit, same way they found Jamison a few years prior. They thought that he would provide some comic relief in the booth. Unfortunately for them/fortunately for us, he bombed from the word go. However, he would stay a part of the announce team through mid-April when Vince would finally get his head straight and put Bobby Heenan in Bartlett's place.

[Crappler El 0 M]

Sept 11, 2014 10:20:11 GMT -5 Gopher Mod said:

Sept 11, 2014 8:31:17 GMT -5 YAKMAN is ICHIBAN said:

I started watching RAW from the first episode on. How much longer is this guy around? Just watched the episode with him as "Elvis." I think he's easily as unbearable as anything I've ever watched.

Where did they find this guy?!

If my memory serves, they found him in the NYC Comedy circuit, same way they found Jamison a few years prior. They thought that he would provide some comic relief in the booth. Unfortunately for them/fortunately for us, he bombed from the word go. However, he would stay a part of the announce team through mid-April when Vince would finally get his head straight and put Bobby Heenan in Bartlett's place.

He was a radio personality in the New York area, often appearing on Don Imus's show where he did a lot of impressions. He continued to do this after his WWE run.

[Gopher Mod]

Sept 11, 2014 10:36:56 GMT -5 Crappler El 0 M said:

Sept 11, 2014 10:20:11 GMT -5 Gopher Mod said:

If my memory serves, they found him in the NYC Comedy circuit, same way they found Jamison a few years prior. They thought that he would provide some comic relief in the booth. Unfortunately for them/fortunately for us, he bombed from the word go. However, he would stay a part of the announce team through mid-April when Vince would finally get his head straight and put Bobby Heenan in Bartlett's place.

He was a radio personality in the New York area, often appearing on Don Imus's show where he did a lot of impressions. He continued to do this after his WWE run.

Ahh. That I did not know.

[Boo!]

There was a Raw with him, Monsoon and Heenan and in the end the Gorilla and the Brain were openly ignoring him.

[James Fabiano]

Here's Rob's version of the story: www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8WdA5XRYeU

[Nickybojelais]

Sept 11, 2014 13:12:50 GMT -5 Boo! said:

There was a Raw with him, Monsoon and Heenan and in the end the Gorilla and the Brain were openly ignoring him.

I am certain he got told to shut up during the Mr Perfect v Ric Flair - Loser Leaves Town match. He makes his usual pathetic attempts at humour early on but precedes to go strangely, yet gloriously silent for the rest of that match.

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Sept 11, 2014 10:36:56 GMT -5 Crappler El 0 M said:

Sept 11, 2014 10:20:11 GMT -5 Gopher Mod said:

If my memory serves, they found him in the NYC Comedy circuit, same way they found Jamison a few years prior. They thought that he would provide some comic relief in the booth. Unfortunately for them/fortunately for us, he bombed from the word go. However, he would stay a part of the announce team through mid-April when Vince would finally get his head straight and put Bobby Heenan in Bartlett's place.

He was a radio personality in the New York area, often appearing on Don Imus's show where he did a lot of impressions. He continued to do this after his WWE run.

Still on the show to this very day, actually.....

[JB]

There was an episode where he mimicked vince McMahon for the full episode. It was great

That's about it though

[Cranjis McBasketball]

Sept 11, 2014 13:34:21 GMT -5 James Fabiano said:

Here's Rob's version of the story: www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8WdA5XRYeU

Yokozuna's so fat, when he sits around the house, he REALLY sits AROUND the house.

Yokozuna's so fat, when he went swimming, he got harpooned!!

I think that O&A clip should have featured a slide whistle at the end of each joke, to really drive them home.

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Sept 12, 2014 21:31:00 GMT -5 JB said:

There was an episode where he mimicked vince McMahon for the full episode. It was great

That's about it though

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvWkMTHZjWI

My favorite Rob Bartlett moment ever at 5:49 - to this day, that line makes my dad cry laughing, for some reason.

BTW, that Raw was the last time Gorilla and Heenan called a show together, isn't it?

Bobby: "You know what an illegal is?"
Monsoon: "Yeah, a sick bird."
Bobby: "..................UGH."