For example, I find Steve Martin to be incredibly funny. I wish that Steve Martin was still performing stand up comedy, because I would pay anything to see his act on stage. His comedy albums were funny growing up, and they’re still funny today. Steve Martin is funny. Anyone agree?

I DON’T find “Curb Your Enthusiasm” very entertaining. (It’s very difficult to admit that as a Jewish-American!) But it’s the truth… everyone raves about that show, but every time I watch it I just don’t think it’s that great. It’s set to record every week on my TiVo, but I still haven’t even watched this season’s premiere. And I LOVED Seinfeld… but I just don’t think “Curb” is as good as everyone makes it out to be. Am i right?

Although I love having wrestlers as guests on Dan’s show, I don’t find wrestling to be entertaining AT ALL. You couldn’t pay me to watch WWE on TV anymore. I don’t think I’ve watched wrestling in 10 years, and I certainly don’t miss it. Give me the days of Lou Albano and Mr. Fuji over whatever is happening currently in wrestling. The current state of wrestling stinks. Who agrees with me?

The best show on TV right now is “The Office.” There’s not one bad character. There’s never an episode that comes up short. The show is laugh out loud funny. (I know I’m right about my opinion of The Office. There are people that might have never seen it, but I can’t imagine there’s anyone that has watched it and DOESN’T like it.) So I say “The Office” is the best thing TV has to offer right now. I don’t watch South Park anymore. I don’t watch The Simpsons anymore. I don’t watch Survivor anymore. (I’m gonna try to get into “The Big Bang Theory” this season. It’s a new show- looks kind of funny.)

So, is my taste in entertainment faulty? (I also happen to find Greg Cote of The Miami Herald very entertaining and funny.) Because if my taste in what’s entertaining is not good, that doesn’t bode well for our show. I’ll keep booking Mean Gene Okerlund week after week, and no one will find it funny but me. (I also think the new TMZ TV show is very entertaining. Check your local schedule for airtimes!)

What is entertaining and what is not? You tell me.

The first week of the season, Hall of Fame wrestling manager Bobby “The Brain” Heenan went 4-0-1. So, obviously, he was invited back for week 2. Unfortunately, he went 1-4 on week 2, so his days as our Bad Celebrity Prognosticator were over.

On Thursday, we had Bobby “The Brain” Heenan on the phone to fire him, and we had our NEW celebrity on the line to take over. The new celeb: Hall of Fame wrestling announcer Mean Gene Okerlund!

All I can tell you is having these two gentlemen on the line at the same time was pure radio magic. Dan fired Heenan, and welcomed in Okerlund… and both of them started yelling at each other, and it was nothing short of MAGICAL. (It was so good that I’m pretty certain the Howard Stern Show will steal these guys from us just like they stole The Iron Sheik!)

I urge you to go to the audio archives and listen to it. You will not be disappointed. And… as entertaining as it was, there was something even MORE entertaining about the entire event. I had called Mean Gene Okerlund Thursday morning to see if he would do this bit with us. After I explained it to him, he told me he would do it and I should call him back before the show. Then… he ended our phone conversation by saying “work it.” I found this odd. I immediately called Dan and our producer Mike Ryan and told them that Mean Gene Okerlund just got off the phone with me by saying “work it.”

So, the day goes on. I continue preparing for the show… and around 2:45 I call Mean Gene again to remind him of the bit. Once again, inexplicably, he ends the conversation with “work it.” I’m now beside myself with confusion. Why would a grown man end a conversation with another man with “work it?” And that grown man has to be in his sixties too!

Now, Mean Gene comes on the air and does radio magic with Bobby “The Brain” Heenan. The bit could not have gone better. Until… Mean Gene signs off by saying “work it.” Go listen to the audio archives right now. The last words you’ll hear are Mean Gene saying “work it.” It’s strange.

Needless to say, I’m hoping Mean Gene has a good week picking football games, because I’m dying to have him back on the air next week. Work it.

We’ve taken calls on this subject for several days on the radio show. My favorite was the caller who said, “Fergie looks like she ran through a hungry village with meat taped to her face.” Well said.

Again though, let me reiterate: Someone can be ugly and hot at the same time. There are numerous examples in the porn world of ugly chicks who overcome their ugliness by being so incredibly dirty and sexy that they just become “hot.” Bottom line; Fergie is ugly. (I’m solely talking about the aesthetic features of her face.) Her body is rockin’. Her attitude is sexy. She has an “element” of hotness to her. But her face: Ugly.

Not only is she ugly but she pee’s herself.

I don’t think you’ll see Lovie Smith stick by Rex Grossman all season like he did last year. If the defense keeps on playing as well as they did Sunday, I think you’re going to see the Bears forced to try and put together some kind of offensive attack, and I think that’s going to mean Brian Greise.

As for the Dolphins… They’re just not that good. I kind of felt empty after watching the game, because they were in it the entire way, and they didn’t look awful. They were just “kind of there.” Then I kept reminding myself that they were playing a pretty mediocre Redskins team, so the fact that they lost would make the Dolphins a bit worse than mediocre.

I found myself rooting for Cam Cameron. I liked the fact that he went for the touchdown at the end of the first half, rather than go for the field goal. I thought that was pretty refreshing. I also thought it was pretty telling that Ronnie Brown seemed to be sharing his playing time with Jesse Chatman. (That’s a number 2 overall pick sharing time with a 3rd year, undrafted free agent.) That doesn’t seem to bode too well for Ronnie.

As for the 3 biggest new additions to the Phins… I thought Trent Green did a pretty good job… except for that final pass in regulation that should have been returned for a touchdown by Fred Smoot. Would have made a great headline though: Redskins Put A Smoot Up Green’s Ass.

I thought David Martin dropped an easy pass that would have kept the Dolphins’ drive going late in the game, so I give him this week’s “suey” award. And finally, I actually forgot Joey Porter was playing until the announcer called his name in the 4th quarter.

So, I did poorly on my football picks this week, but hopefully you didn’t listen to me. Hopefully you listened to Bobby “The Brain” Heenan. In a new feature on The Dan LeBatard Show, we bring on a “bad celebrity” each week to pick five games. And we tell the celeb that if they have a winning record, they’ll be invited back to pick games the following week. Well, Bobby “The Brain” Heenan is coming back this week because he went 4-0-1. That’s pretty damn impressive. They don’t call him “the brain” for nothing.

The line for this week’s UM-FIU game is Miami by 33. Miami should win that game by 50, right? My early picks for next week are leaning towards UM minus 33, and Maryland minus 10. (Maryland plays FAU. I bet Oklahoma State minus 24 against FAU this week, and that was a cakewalk. I think I’m gonna keep betting against FAU until that theory fails me.)

In summary, week 1 sucked if you were a Canes, Dolphins, and/or Bears fan.