“The Winter Olympics is based on drunken dares,” the comedian [Jon Stewart] once told HBO’s Bob Costas. ” ‘You go down that.’ ‘No man, I’m not going down that.’ ‘You go down that on this.’ ‘All right.’
“That is the whole thing. You think the luge is a sport? It’s not a sport, it is a bet. ‘Here, have a beer, lie like this.’
“Halfpipe? They just came up with that. Just a bunch of guys getting high in the back. ‘What else can we do on snow?’ ‘Halfpipe.’ ”