“The rookies say Metta, all the veterans say Ron. What’s up with that?”
November 18, 2018 5:40 PM   Subscribe

METTA WORLD TEETH
On December 12th, 2011: The NBA player known as Metta World Peace gave an interview to the Los Angeles Times about his recent name change. Metta completely disregarded the reporter’s question and instead decided to talk about his teeth. The following is a dramatic re-imagining of that interview using Metta’s actual audio.
Directed by LAMAR+NIK, starring Matthew Griffin and Michaelene Stephension.
posted by Going To Maine (10 comments total) 9 users marked this as a favorite
 
*blinks* what... the...
posted by Homo neanderthalensis at 6:07 PM on November 18, 2018


That's an entertaining way to avoid answering silly interview questions unrelated to one's work for which one is famous.
posted by eviemath at 6:24 PM on November 18, 2018 [3 favorites]


𝕷𝖊𝖙 𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖒 𝖑𝖔𝖘𝖊 𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖎𝖗 𝖙𝖊𝖊𝖙𝖍 𝖊𝖆𝖗𝖑𝖞, 𝖗𝖆𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖗 𝖙𝖍𝖆𝖓 𝖑𝖆𝖙𝖊.
posted by moonmilk at 6:25 PM on November 18, 2018 [5 favorites]


Malice at the Dentist
posted by gucci mane at 6:38 PM on November 18, 2018 [2 favorites]


This post needs a MettaFilter tag.
posted by homunculus at 7:09 PM on November 18, 2018 [7 favorites]


Metta World Peace was a very entertaining part of Key & Peele. It wasn't until I had seen several episodes with him that I found out he wasn't playing a character! Well, beyond the extent to which he may be playing a character in real life.
posted by tavella at 7:19 PM on November 18, 2018 [5 favorites]


That's an entertaining way to avoid answering silly interview questions unrelated to one's work for which one is famous.

That could have been his tactic, but since it got a moderately popular short film made about the incident I'm not sure it worked.
posted by Going To Maine at 7:22 PM on November 18, 2018


I don’t care for basketball but I’m a big fan of Metta’s work there.

I hope he continues in this vein, I bet he could write a nice book (thinking sort of like Jack Handy) or put on a one-man show.

I’m not sure it worked
I’m pretty sure nowhere in this video does he say anything about his name change, and I don’t see anyone here talking about it either, so I say the gambit worked.
posted by SaltySalticid at 4:30 AM on November 19, 2018 [1 favorite]


(Goes looking for other Metta content)

Oh he showed up to do the weather report for CTV Vancouver: “I can’t really see what’s going on, but I’m assuming there’s people there”.
posted by SaltySalticid at 4:40 AM on November 19, 2018


PTL. Teeth.
posted by clawsoon at 5:26 AM on November 19, 2018


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