Roundball Rock - SNL 

John Tesh said today on LeBatard that NBC reached out to ask about using Roundball Rock and I immediately started singing the lyrics.

I'm gonna Dunk it!

​@@TheBigJew CLAP

Seriously. I don't even find this sketch particularly **funny** but it's still the only thing I can think about anymore when I hear that music

It's being used during Olympic basketball and, yes, I am singing the lyrics very loudly when I hear it.

My favorite poem: "Ba ba ba ba ba, ball of basket. Giveth me the ball Because I am going to dunk it" - David Tesh

@@fritzmoy101 Tesh is good, but he's no Roy Donk.

Whoo!

I’m betting that Entertainment Tonight started the same way. “Entertainment tonight, bada ba ba ba “Entertainment tonight, bada ba _ba_ ba “Bada ba bada bada ba dun dun, En-Ter-tainment!”

@@BurtClemmons Paul Bufano!

You're not wrong. Few years later and they both are at the helms of my two favorite comedy shows. I Think You Should Leave and Ted Lasso

Sudeikis was in an episode of Detroiters

Those high fives were legendary

I Think you should Lasso

They really have killer comedic chemistry. We were truly denied something great 😭

I didn’t realize it was him until he made that goofy voice

Tim is getting his bag though. He still writes for SNL.

@@xDSulley I don't know if that's correct though. I don't think he's been an SNL writer since 2016. Either way, he's been crushing it with Detroiters and ITYSL.

@@EricDavisED He was a cast member, this is him.

Tim was never gonna make it on network TV. This is probably the best outcome for him.

Go Sox!

😂 I lost it on that one. “But then grew into something bigger than both of us could ever imagine”

he's not wrong

@Joshua Hammond I don't believe you

@Joshua Hammond u know I refuse to. You know that Josh

"Nowhere near as repetitive as stutter-singing the word and then verbally demanding to be given the ball and vowing to dunk it ad nauseum."

Yes exactly!!! He's such a joy to watch

That's why he insists on a car where the steering wheel won't fly off

actually the sketch was great before it fell off the rails. then it became terrible.

Search Tim Robinson Pay It Forward, unless u already watched the latest season of I Think You Should Leave

It is a "lyrics first" song.

Maybe the crowd was too young or not into the NBA in the 90s, but as soon as I heard those lyrics I was cracking up. B-B-B-B-B-Basketball 😂

Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-basketball gimme gimme gimme da ball

@@goblazers78749 wait so a network really used a song like this in the 90's?

@@sam8404 NBA on NBC used this intro for like a decade. It's an actual song by John Tesh, albeit without these lyrics.

It's s lyrics first song!!!!

It was my alarm music for a while. I always woke up ready to rock at Tesh-thirty.

​@@RissaPappasbro I i need to do that 🤣

Moon river rock...MOON RIVER ROLLLLL!

It’s also in Johnny’s Q Zone

This comment wins today 🥇

Palm tree girls and palm tree guys 👦

@@gradycp Don’t give it to Johnny! Don’t give it to Johnny!

It would be the perfect intro for coffin flippers!! Buh buh buh buh dead bodies, gimme the ball cause I’m gonna, FLOP IT!!

I don't know what to tell ya, bud!

Underrated comment lmao

They didn't rig shit, they didn't do shit!

If CornCob doesn't get dropped by Spectrum.

this sketch is eternal gold

@@jDkaufman25 it's so good hes so funny

@@jDkaufman25 it's getting another season also!!!

It ended up working out - I Think You Should Leave on Netflix is spectacular and now I'm seeing Tim being interviewed by his old SNL friends/bosses like Seth Meyers. Edit: I didn't even realize Ted Lasso is in this too. This sketch was way ahead of its time.

Honestly it’s a good thing since Tim is way funnier than the SNL writers nowadays anyways

I'd love for you to elaborate. I have not been a big SNL viewer. But I love this sketch.

​@@DPMusicStudio Because this is one of the only Tim Robinson sketches that made it to air. This sketch could be seen as allegorical because most of his pitches were deemed too weird for the show.

@@mandarinspoon A Larry David situation. Too talented for the show.

@@DPMusicStudiosame happened with shane gillis. snl apparently is allergic to talent

@@steviechampagnelet’s not get carried away

lorne can be crazy

+justbeforedusk They didn't give him enough proper roles ! He was hilarious, I just love watching his face while he destroys the office with a tiny hammer !

i loved him in the construction worker sketch with daniel craig too

he's on detroiters now but he really did deserve more time on snl

U guys watch detroiters?

Whoo!

🙏

That’s a chunky !!

Guess he's just gonna have to walk slowly

he’s gotta stick to reading his art books

Haha he's the only recent comedic genius that SNL actually got rid of

He left a mud pie in my toilet and it wouldn’t flush!

My new ringtone lol

Buh buh buh buh buh Basketball Gimme gimme gimme the ball because I'm gonna dunk it.

I love the original but this version is even better

✋

WHERE CAN I DOWNLOAD IT?!?!?!?!

Same!

@Joshua Hammond He's the guy on the floor

Well, it's a lyrics first song

@Joshua Hammond Who pissed in your Cheerios?

Samuel Vasquez i

And yet you managed to post afterward......

@@NibberKSmooth don't disturb his resting! 👻

@@NibberKSmooth He got better.

@@NibberKSmooth It's a miracle!! Praise be!

Fox uses it now too. Makes things fun when I'm watching basketball when my wife (who's not the biggest sports fan) is in the room because we sing the lyrics together 😂

@@matthewbless3335 I need a wife I can sing roundball rock with man. Definitely jelly

@@coreyperdue37 I second that.

As a blind person I had no idea what the hell was supposed to be on the screen.

Don't you worry about old Dave Tesh.

I’m

Woo

I believe that it's also written in the book of silence.... and you know...if it's science then it's indisputable

🙌

Yeah!

the cackle makes me cry laughing every time, it’s so insane

Great catch

naw... this is actually funny...

Kai Essam i think you should leave is amazing

Kai Essam - I think you mean the opposite. “I Think You Should Leave” is actually funny, while SNL hasn’t legitimately made laugh out loud in YEARS...

lol, this literally already is a sketch on ITYSL, just repurposed

Me

😄😆😂🤣😆😂

When ever I hear the jingle I think of this video

​@@AlanFernandoGaminous

New version of roundball rock dropped today

gimme gimme the ball b/c I'm gonna dunk it!

WOOOH!

Nicolás Jijón amen

It's entertaining, and informative of what's going to be happening.

It makes me want to carry a tiny hammer with me, just in case I need one.

@@henrytawnn8694 pretty useful.

No Reggie,don't encourage him!!!

Alejandro Felix check out “I think you should leave” on Netflix. There are a few clips on here. It’s his show and it’s fantastic.

I think he is still a writer...

@@DNOWAKJR OMG THANK U FOR THAT SHOW NAME. finna watch it meow

Omg me too!!! I have this jingle in my head now hahah

@@ccinSFfruitloop For SNL? 8 years later??? Ummm...no.

I was just singing and laughing at this jingle, had to come back!

@@terrancekayton007 Yes! Welcome back to the greatest jingle of all time :)

How is a 6 year old watching RU-vid videos?

@@willstark4614 must be one of those ipad kids

It just seems incomplete.

moon river roll

It's not exactly in his Q-zone though, is it?

Praise the sun, you casul.

Git gud

remember to only pull the hair up but not out, because if you pull it out you turn to bones

UP BUT NOT OUT!!

Ok, well they don’t play this song anymore, but sure lol

This sketch might actually make me watch NBA for the first time, just so I can sing along! “I love the lyrics to this song!”🤓

@@vipermad358 gonna need to watch some vintage games. it has been vaulted. abc does b-b-b-b-b-basketball now.

You put in one too many "ba"s

Capable but not really a great talent. No.

@@socratease4645 hes definitely a great talent, dudes super funny in everthing he does

It's spelled Tim Robinson

Tesh

Not even close. I'm guessing you're too young to remember the 84-85 "all-star" cast with Billy Crystal, Christopher Guest, and Martin Short...not to mention Chris Elliott and David Koechner a decade later. Robinson may be a moderate success now...but he was just horrible on SNL. He's definitely in the bottom 10 or so of all time...but at least he's ahead of Jerry Minor and Rob Riggle!!

@@axelkyster2642 imagine thinking Billy Crystal is more funny than Tim Robinson. Clearly you haven't changed and are still a piece of shit

@@axelkyster2642 You know your SNL casts.

@@axelkyster2642 Yeah, this comment section is full of weird Tim Robinson stans who are trying to make his presence in comedy seem about 100,000x more impactful than it actually is. He's fine, some of his new stuff especially is funny. Detroiters was...okay at best. Lol this video has 1.5m views, there's like 300 SNL sketches with 8m+ views for a reason. While the majority isn't always right, there's definitely something to be said that this sketch is literally 1/10th as popular as hundreds of other SNL sketches. Humor is one of the few things where the majority just tends to get it right. This simply isn't that good and certainly isn't some good performance by Robinson. "moderate success" put it perfectly. Dudes propping him up to the level of Mikey Day or Bill Hader are out of their minds lol. But thats the beauty of youtube - take any outlandish, extremely minority rejected opinion, and you'll find a few thousands of people that'll make you feel validated over it, hence you can randomly blurt out nonsense like "Tim Robinson is the greatest SNL cast member that lasted only one season" and get 72 likes despite it being laughably wrong.

@@gibiati8295 Yep...all good. That's why I try not to use too many superlatives..."Kenan is the BEST CM ever!". Everybody's got an opinion, but somebody who says "Tim Meadows is as talented or as successful as Bill lMurray" will get an argument from me. All opinions are valid...but they're just opinions if you can't back it up... Also...these younger folks clearly don't know the history of the show...and don't care...and won't do their research...

Sam Richardson, Akiva Shaffer, I just love the stuff they all do

Decidely weird...yes sir

Nope

💓💕♥️💯

Not yet

Philip VanderWeide that’s not Taran

Gabriel Delgado I think he’s referring to laugh you hear in the background

FYI He' a terrible person

Taran? Why? lol

BitcoinKush......What???? You just crushed my soul...Please elaborate

No this is the real story

I wanna hear John Tesh's answering machine now... Especially if the message was brother Dave's poem.

@@181cameron you're in luck ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-V_h7Lm7C9Nk.html

@@181cameron you can if you search roundball rock on youtube. He plays it live infront of an audience from the same machine and tape that took the recording

It clearly came from one of Dave Tesh's poems.

Dude! I was about to leave the same comment, and you just stole the thought out of my tiny man brain. Especially when he decides to start shredding as the lyrics come back half way