Jay Onrait
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Almen Viden
- Kanonisk navn
- Onrait, Jay
- Juridisk navn
- Onrait, Jay Michael
- Fødselsdato
- 1974-08-29
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- Canada
- Fødested
- Calgary, Alberta, Canada
- Bopæl
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Los Angeles, California, USA
Athabasca, Alberta, Canada - Uddannelse
- Ryerson University
University of Alberta - Erhverv
- Sports anchor
- Organisationer
- TSN
Fox Sports 1 - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Gemini Award (Best Sportscaster, 2011)
Medlemmer
Anmeldelser
Statistikker
- Værker
- 2
- Medlemmer
- 47
- Popularitet
- #330,643
- Vurdering
- 3.2
- Anmeldelser
- 1
- ISBN
- 8
One half of the team, Jay Onrait, wrote a book about his journey to broadcasting superstardom. Taking us from his humble beginnings as the son of a pharmacist in the small Alberta town of Athabasca to his first internship with TSN to the elusive offer from Fox Sports to co-anchor their new network and everything in between.
I say this completely without hyperbole: there is a chapter early on in this book which may just be the funniest thing I’ve ever read in a memoir. Without giving too much away, it involves a Christmas Eve feast of crab legs followed by several trips to the bathroom. I’ll leave it at that.
A few highlights include his time at both the 2010 and 2012 Olympic Games, his struggles to get a weekly TV clip show off the ground (in the style of Joel McHale’s The Soup), his comedic chemistry with Dan O’Toole and an awkward trip to the bathroom of an elderly man’s home in New Brunswick.
In terms of memoirs, it has its ups and downs. While it was entertaining for the most part, nothing made me laugh quite as hard as that early story. If you’re not watching these guys on FS1 each night or unaware of their stellar podcast – The Jay and Dan Podcast – you’re truly missing out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ9dGiqvO94… (mere)