Have you ever bought a toy for a kid, let them unwrap it and then you have to get the toy out of the box? Then you know it is harder open than to solve a Calculus problem.
What if you are Mike Tyson, is it any easier? Jimmy Kimmel Live asked the former-Heavyweight Champ to make one of those unboxing videos and it was a lot easier for him than it is for you and me. Said item is also unreturnable after he gets done with it.
The best part is not him unboxing the toy, but him playing with afterwards. That is a sight, I never thought I would see. And I love it!
Mike Tyson was on The Tonight Show yesterday and Jimmy Fallon wanted to see if the boxing legend could beat himself in the classic videogame Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out. The game was all set up for Iron Mike to play and with a one-two punch he was ready to go. So find out the answer to one of Mike Tyson Mysteries (that airs on Adult Swim, Mondays at 12m) by watching this incredible segment. It is a real knock out.
BTW am I the only who wondered if that is what Tyson sounds like in bed when he started grunting like that?
Back when Mike Tyson was knocking people out in seconds, who would’ve thought he would have had an animated show solving mysteries on Adult Swim. No one, but that is exactly what is happening tonight at 10:30p in Mike Tyson’s Mysteries. It’s like Scooby Doo for adults, but even better than you could wish for.
Mike Tyson has gone from boxing extraordinaire to the best crime solver in the world. He can’t do it all by himself, so he has a team of people helping him out. He has been raising Yung Hee (Rachel Ramras) since she was left at his doorstep as a baby and now she is getting ready to go to college. John Chambers the 9th Marquess of Queensberry (Jim Rash), a know-it-all ghost who got Tyson to turn his life around. Finally, there is Pigeon (Norm MacDonald), who used to be human and now he is a wisecracking drunk pigeon who lives with them all. You see, they get their cases from carrier pigeons, so it makes sense that he would have a talking pigeon. Right?
Tonight, they get a carrier pigeon from Carmac McCarthy, who needs their help to finish his book. So it is off in the Mystery Van they go. When they get there, the find out they are there to get rid of a Chupacabra. The best part of the series premiere is watching Mike Tyson trying to pronounce the urban legend. A name he still can’t even say as of a few weeks ago. Something he demonstrated at a press event that had everyone in the room laughing. I knew Iron Mike was funny from watching him on talk shows, but to witness it in person is a completely different thing.
Now you might not believe he is naturally funny as all hell, but we were told that a lot of executives didn’t think he was voicing his own character on the show. He thinks, “It’s because they can’t understand it or else it sounds very distinguished?” I am thinking the latter.
So what can you expect from the animated crime solving show? In the upcoming weeks, Mike Tyson Mysteries goes to IBM and the episode is built on a joke. He will also travel to the Moon because of something his wife told the producers about his bad driving. He’s also heading to Nicaragua to stop the building of canal that is really happening. On another show, Tyson has a rash and he blames Pigeon so he kicks him out. Be prepared to hear McDonald let loose. And in one episode, he will help a couple buy a house. The last one is something the Hangover star is not good at because he told us if someone is selling a house for $5 million, he offers them $7.5 million.
If that is not enough to get you to watch, there will be singing, lots and lots of singing. Tonight, you will hear him sing about bird sex. In a future episode he belts out, a song about converting to Christianity.
Mike Tyson Mysteries is a great way to end your Tuesdays because it is so out there, and yet so much fun. Plus, who doesn’t want to see one of the greatest boxers of all time be an animated crime solving version of himself. It’s a cartoon for you and me to enjoy and when the kids are finally asleep. We all loved watching cartoons as kids and now we have one to enjoy as adults. But don’t tell the little ones because than they will want to stay up and watch it, and this is only for us!
Mike Tyson was a guest on Jimmy Kimmel Live and the former-boxer took a photo with the ABC late night host. While that isn’t anything to write home about, the way Iron Mike posed with him is. That’s because, the heavyweight world champion had his mouth wide opened right by ear, and after what happened with Evander Holyfield I wouldn’t let him anywhere near my ears. Even though he is reformed now, I still like my ears and want to keep them whole.
Mike Tyson, who is one of the greatest boxers of all time, admitted on Jimmy Kimmel Live yesterday that he is a fan of Barbra Streisand’s. But it didn’t stop there, he also sang some of her song Memory when the ABC late night host asked him which of her songs is his favorite.
Iron Mike didn’t only talk about his love for her music he also talked about some of the things he did that he wishes were more than a distant memory. Back when Don King and him were friends, Tyson left a tiger in townhouse when he had somewhere else to be. Let’s just say when he got back, the wild haired promoter got renovated place!
And that isn’t the only wild story he shared, he also talked about the time his probation officer came to his house while he was having an orgy and there was some coke in the house. And I am not talking about the carbonated drink. Luckily, this story has better ending than the last one. That is if he is past the statute of limitations for the crime he was committed back then.
I know I shouldn’t like Mike Tyson, but I can’t help myself. I think he has reformed himself from the major a$$hole he used to be.
