Jason Kelce‘s transition into hosting a late night television show has had a rough start – highlighted by an awfully blunt joke by one of his guests.
On Friday night’s episode of ‘They Call It Late Night with Jason Kelce,’ the former Philadelphia Eagles center was showing highlights of the AFC and NFC Divisional rounds from the weekend prior.
That included a highlight of his brother, Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce catching a touchdown in the game against the Houston Texans.
‘How about this highlight of my younger, taller, cooler, hotter, more popular brother as he leads his team to another AFC Championship,’ Kelce said on the show.
At this point, former Philadelphia Eagles nose tackle Beau Allen – who was teammates with Jason for three seasons – cut in with an off-color joke.
After Jason had listed off all those positive words about Travis, Allen chimed in with a quick jab: ‘And he’s got a bigger d**k too.’
Jason just grimaced and said, ‘Thanks Beau’ as the audience reeled from the remark.
It’s just another example of the surprisingly foul-mouthed ESPN+ offering seemingly failing to meet the mark.
A number of fans on social media have already taken to branding it ‘the worst show in the history of television’.
Ratings aren’t too particularly kind to the show either – possibly owing to it’s air time of 1:00am ET on Saturday evenings.
The show, which derives its name from David Letterman’s legendary late-night show, premiered on January 3 with an underwhelming response. The culprit could have been its late start time or the content itself, but in any case, the show garnered only 290,000 viewers on its first episode, according to Puck’s John Ourand.
For context, Ourand points out that ESPN had 700,000 viewers watching that same time slot two weeks earlier. However, he adds: ‘that figure was inflated by the Indiana-Notre Dame playoff game earlier in the night.’
ESPN has confirmed the 290,000 viewers for the first episode, adding in an email to DailyMail.com that the second episode saw a sizeable jump to 881,000 viewers.
The show has a limited run of five episodes – airing up until February 1, the week before Super Bowl LIX.
