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Let's get ready to bumble!

By Bill Simmons
Page 2 columnist

Thursday, May 23, 2002

Before we get to my running diary from Fox's "Celebrity Boxing II," allow me a quick tangent: Back in the mid-'80s, "Saturday Night Live" ran a classic sketch called "Jackie Rogers Jr.'s $20,000 Jackpot Wad," a fake game show along the lines of the "The $100,000 Pyramid" (only its host was Jackie, a cross-eyed, albino lounge singer played by Martin Short). One of the "celebrity contestants" in the sketch was Captain Kangaroo (played by Jim Belushi), who was a little down on his luck because hi ...

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