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The Great Creators with Guy Raz
Ted Lasso: A Hairdryer Type Coach
Ted Lasso began as a skid on NBC Sports trying to promote the Premier League. He was, he was kind of more like the a-hole character, right? I mean, he was this kind of blustering. But in that first commercial, yeah, we, you know, I dressed like Mike Dica with the polyester shorts and the orange glasses and the mustache. It shifted into a less version of a hairdryer, more like this bunking guy. And if for any of them that hate Ted Lasso, the show, it's their fault because it let us do the second one.
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