#5 "It's such good stuff!" (30:56)
So they hand me this sheet and it's as bad as you imagine. Then I got herded into this sexual harassment meeting that we all had to do. So I'm just sitting in this meeting while they're talking and just staring at this promo and just seething, and I'm like 'as soon as this meeting's over I'm just gonna bolt right to Vince's office.' As soon as I get out of the door of the meeting, the writer's already in front of me and he's like 'hey, Vince wants to talk to you about this promo, he wants to make sure you know this is not comedy.' So Vince anticipated that I was gonna come storming in there and go 'why am I doing all this prop comedy all the time?' Because I've been having the same argument with him for like a year now. So anyway I go into Vince's office and he's like 'hey pal! So this promo...I want you to know this is not comedy.' And he's pointing at it and he's like 'this...is such good stuff, it's so well-written, and it's gonna get you a ton of heat.' That's exactly what he said.
This was only one horrendous segment on the now legendarily bad November 26th, 2018 edition of Monday Night Raw. This segment was universally panned among WWE's audience as soon as it came out. Apparently, that sentiment extended into the bizarro world of the company itself.
In the latest WWE NEWS, Dean Ambrose hated it as soon as he heard about it. He wanted to convince Vince McMahon how horrible it is, but he was dead set on airing it, believing it was "so well-written."
Vince McMahon has often been labeled as being out of touch. There is no clearer evidence than this. He was the only one in the world that thought this was good.
Edited by Kingshuk Kusari