NBC Olympic Coverage Mistakes Jesse Eisenberg For Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg

COMMENTS (21)

• I heard this live. cracked me up! Art imitating life!

  Comment by Feeling for him — Sunday August 12, 2012 @ 4:06pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Yeah, I’m a longtime journalist and their incompetence is staggering. And it’s getting worse, not better. Very sad to see a great brand crash and burn.

  Comment by ohn B — Sunday August 12, 2012 @ 4:11pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Come on, it is a fair mistake and really not so bad. After all, I see the real-life Joker sitting courtside at every home Laker Game I watch.

  Comment by No One Of Consequence — Sunday August 12, 2012 @ 4:13pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • Unless you’re a TV commentator broadcasting to a nationwide audience this comparison doesn’t really hold up.
    Yes, mistakes happen. Yes, the guy’s just a sports commentator. But Mark is one of the richest people alive today recognizable by millions of viewers, and this mistake was reckless and done against better judgement.
    Lucky for this guy, despite what I’ve written, the significant part of the viewing public wouldn’t know Mahatma Gandhi from Joseph Stalin.

    Comment by One of Consequence — Sunday August 12, 2012 @ 5:02pm PDT  Reply to this post

    • You do realize I was kidding, right?

      Comment by No One Of Consequence — Sunday August 12, 2012 @ 5:50pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Only NBC could make this mistake.

  I just heard a bumper that ‘on ice’ Seacrest will be back tonight, after his horrific reporting, earlier in the games.

  Mistaking Eisenberg for Zukerberg, shows who is producing the coverage. I do not blame on-air talent, they are just reacting to ear-promts.

  Comment by Rik — Sunday August 12, 2012 @ 4:42pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Fact checking is such a rare artform these days…

  Comment by GDP — Sunday August 12, 2012 @ 4:43pm PDT  Reply to this post

• The coverage sucks. But, I am looking forward to Grimm Season 2. Grimm got much better after it’s 1st few episodes.

  Comment by Jack — Sunday August 12, 2012 @ 4:44pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Why is NBC Sports good at covering everything but the Olympics. They were great at doing NBA coverage. Theyre good at Football. But, they’ve been incompetent at covering the Olympics. I don’t get it.

  Comment by Jack — Sunday August 12, 2012 @ 4:48pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • There are just too many events, and, not enough good play-by-play people (and color people…expert commentator) to go around. On some of the sports I have never heard of the play-by-play person

    And, NBC put some of their better sportscasters at less-watched events….like Mike Emrick (NBCs lead hockey play-by-play) doing water polo. And, Al Michaels was the daytime studio host….he is great as a host…but if he is not your prime-time host…he should be covering one of the main events. Emrick and Michaels would have been better at basketball

    Comment by DancingElkCondor — Monday August 13, 2012 @ 8:33pm PDT  Reply to this post

• my favorite part of the olympics was reliving world war II with tommy b. hitler, stalin, churchill… what fun. not. and what was up with tom – stroke? alcohol? scripts?

  Comment by jfc! — Sunday August 12, 2012 @ 5:33pm PDT  Reply to this post

• What an idiot. But it is funny.

  Comment by jjjj — Sunday August 12, 2012 @ 6:41pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Nothing But Clowns

  Comment by bobweaver — Sunday August 12, 2012 @ 7:43pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Bang up job, as always.

  Comment by dee123 — Sunday August 12, 2012 @ 9:05pm PDT  Reply to this post

• He’s not a billionaire but he plays one on TV.

  Comment by Kevin Cleary — Sunday August 12, 2012 @ 11:20pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Thank god this train wreck of coverage is over. Even though all the athletes are already back home to their respective countries, figured I’d watch the last ten (taped delayed) minutes and the dousing of the flame (West Coast feed). Boring Bob (Costas) said they’d be back with closing comments, then NBC went strait to “Animal Practice.” I guess they just said, “The hell with it,” and bailed.

  Comment by Whatwhatwhat — Sunday August 12, 2012 @ 11:21pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I don’t know why this is such a big deal!!

  Have anyone been hurt because of this mistake?

  Comment by JohnC — Monday August 13, 2012 @ 3:50am PDT  Reply to this post

• At least they didn’t spot Val Kilmer in the audience and then indicate that Jim Morrison was attending the Olympics.

  Now THAT would have been inexcusable (and funny as hell).

  Comment by Wicked — Monday August 13, 2012 @ 3:53am PDT  Reply to this post

• I expect nothing less from a network that is part of a company that spent $209+ million on a cinematic abortion like “Battleship”.

  Comment by Spf781 — Monday August 13, 2012 @ 4:24am PDT  Reply to this post

• Unfortunately for us NBC could care less about what we all think. They are looking at the ratings and calling their efforts a huge success. At the end of the day they are just another greedy corporate entity only concerned with the numbers.

  #CLUELESS!

  Comment by miamidude — Monday August 13, 2012 @ 6:48am PDT  Reply to this post

• When I heard the comment about “every executive”, I thought “wait, does the guy think that’s Zuckerberg?”. I don’t even think Zuckerberg and Eisenberg look alike. Eisenberg and SNL alum Andy Samberg look more alike (dark curly hair vs. Zuckerberg’s lighter shade).

  It’s not a big deal (celeb spotting is not an Olympic sport and the guy didn’t specifically say he was Zuckerberg) but still – get with it!

  Comment by Cassie — Monday August 13, 2012 @ 6:50pm PDT  Reply to this post