Despite being up early this Saturday to get work done here at the Radio Ranch, I had no plans to watch a single second of Royal Wedding coverage–until I found out that HBO will feature Cord Hosenbeck and Tish Cattigan hosting their live broadcast. In case you missed it, Cord and Tish won great accolades for their coverage of the Rose Parade last New Year’s Day–giving it exactly the amount of respect it deserved.
For those of you unaware, Cord Hosenbeck is actually Will Ferrell and Tish Cattigan is Molly Shannon–both alums of Saturday Night Live–and their “coverage” of the Rose Parade was a project of Funny or Die and Amazon Prime. What made it all the better is that thousands of people didn’t realize that and contributed comments during the on-line coverage that demanded the duo be taken off the air because they were so stupid.
And that is exactly why Cord and Tish are pefect for Saturday’s royal nuptials–as it is almost impossible to take the amount of time, money and attention being paid to it seriously. My sincerest hope is that they are able to land someone like John Cleese or Eddie Izzard to be their “Senior Royal Expert” to rip into Monarchy as an institution–and then maybe have Rowan Atkinson as a bumbling “on the ground reporter”. Although, Kevin Kline could reprise his role as Otto from a Fish Called Wanda to provide the best insight:
