Last night's RAW is a stark reminder of how the guest host experiment can go EPIC FAIL in the matter of one segment. A great guest host can go a long way in determining the quality of the show, even if the writing sucks. The next six choices are people I'd feel would shine given the opportunity, and would be no-brainers for whatever reason. I excluded ex-wrestlers or wrestling personalities because hey, we know the wrestlers would do well on a wrestling show. Duh. Here they are.1. David Letterman
The WWE writers are known for wanting to stay "hip", and they usually fail miserably. Although the Late Night Wars II have died down a bit with the Olympics starting up and with the Conan debacle, they provide the writers with a chance to be somewhat timely. I'm not sure how well Conan would play to a wrestling crowd (remember, Dennis Miller kinda bombed) and while Jay Leno has a history in the wrestling business, it was as one of the most embarrassing wrestlers ever and no one really likes him anymore anyway. That leaves Letterman, whose acerbic sense of humor, hayseed upbringing and fandom of old-school wrestling growing up in Indiana would make him the perfect candidate to host RAW. The only real caveat would be having to work around taping his show, as he has to be in New York for that and that he'd probably want to have RAW lead into new programming. Still, Letterman might be the most buzzworthy host they could potentially land, especially now. They'd be fools not to try to land him.
2. Lawrence Taylor
LT is unique in that he not only plays to the jock crowd and the WWE writers' desire to create "SportsCenter moments", but he's actually headlined a WrestleMania before in his special attraction match against the late Bam Bam Bigelow. As long as he wasn't on the crack, he'd be a great host. He seems like he's got presence in front of a camera; he was pretty good in his The Waterboy cameo, where he also showed he has no problem making fun of himself. I think a segment with Santino and LT would be pretty hilarious.
3. Mickey Rourke
As if Iron Man 2 needs any extra promotion, Mickey Rourke has an excellent excuse to slum it back on RAW this year without having to lean on his work in The Wrestler, although that history gives him more than enough cred to host. Hopefully, now that he's made his big comeback, he's not too big for the WWE, because he'd be a very intriguing host
4. Chef Robert Irvine
He's got recent history, heat with two guys on RAW (Miz and Santino) and he's a celebrity who'd have enough to gain to host again. Besides, it's the low-key hosts, the guys you don't expect to be good like Dule Hill or Seth Green that knock it out of the park. The downside is there'd be that spectre of seeing a return of the Gravy Boat match.
5. Kevin Federline
Don't laugh. Federline may be a G-list celebrity, but he has history with the WWE and is not afraid to make fun of himself. Besides, John Cena needs to get his win back. Heh, I keed, I keed. Federline as Douchebag-tista's little buddy sidekick would be comedy gold. And if all else fails, he has trainwreck potential written all over him.
6. Danny DeVito, Rob MacElhenny, Kaitlin Olson, Charlie Day and Glenn Howerton
If you don't know, these guys are the crew from It's Always Sunny in Philadephia. They did an entire wrestling-themed episode, and I think at least the three main guys (MacElhenny, Day and Howerton) are somewhat wrestling fans. Of course, the big argument is that RAW is kid friendly and IASIP isn't, but let me stop you there. RAW in the last six months has featured a oiled-up fat guy in nothing but a thong, a bow-tie and a smile, jokes about prison rape and an implication that Santino Marella couldn't ejaculate during sex with Kelly Kelly. I think that the Sunny guys would fit in fine provided that they were able to write their own material. I don't want the shitty WWE writers to feed these legit comedic actors their weaksauce lines.
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