Reggie Watts Joins Peter Serafinowicz For His World Cup Broadcasting

June 26, 2014 9:01 AM

"And looks like an almost goal. If that whole goal system would have been moved over maybe thirty more feet, we would have been looking at a goal." -- MeFi favorite Reggie Watts (previously) doing World Cup commentary alongside MeFi favorite Peter Serafinowicz (previously) on his Mixlr account, where Serafinowicz has been providing comedic commentary for the games for the last week. [via]
posted by Room 641-A (16 comments total)

Is this the thinly-veiled excuse for a live USA vs. GER thread?
posted by desjardins at 9:12 AM on June 26, 2014 [1 favorite]

no that's in the algeria thread
posted by elizardbits at 9:19 AM on June 26, 2014

Mixlr is such a weird thing. I feel like their entire business is propped up by Jeff Gerstmann's commute streams which always have thousands of listeners, orders of magnitude higher than any other stream on the service.
posted by kmz at 9:26 AM on June 26, 2014

Not intentionally. I thought this had enough cross-over appeal to warrant its own FPP.
posted by Room 641-A at 9:26 AM on June 26, 2014

Unless Germany has a three goal differential the US goes through. I might be wrong.
posted by vapidave at 10:18 AM on June 26, 2014

And it's not in the interest of Germany as far as I understand.
posted by vapidave at 10:20 AM on June 26, 2014

I caught the first one of these as my window into the US/Ghana game. Serafinowicz talking about "wasp cams" and "multiball" made me wish that it was standard on all games.

Reminded me very much of Markets of Britain. "There he is, ringing his murderer's bell."
posted by fifteen schnitzengruben is my limit at 10:48 AM on June 26, 2014 [4 favorites]

We survived the group of death.
posted by Ironmouth at 10:59 AM on June 26, 2014

I love Reggie Watts, I was crushed when I learned he went to the same college that I had, and missed him by one year.
posted by sweetmarie at 11:31 AM on June 26, 2014

Almost as exciting as the games themselves.
posted by clvrmnky at 11:38 AM on June 26, 2014

I'm loving these, thank you.
posted by neuromodulator at 11:41 AM on June 26, 2014

On-the-field analysis provided by Brian Butterfield!
posted by Vendar at 11:55 AM on June 26, 2014

"at any moment, it could hatch to multiball, so we'll see"
posted by anazgnos at 12:35 PM on June 26, 2014

I could listen to Peter Serafinowicz reading the phone book so thank you for these! It's also the first time I've heard of Reggie Watts and it looks like I have a lot of catching up to do.
posted by billiebee at 4:56 PM on June 26, 2014 [1 favorite]

I could listen to Peter Serafinowicz reading the phone book

Or the shipping forecast?
posted by pseudocode at 12:57 AM on June 27, 2014 [3 favorites]

Fraaaaaaan?
posted by billiebee at 12:58 PM on June 27, 2014