Cheap Seats, “Superstars 1978”   Cheap Seats, “Superstars 1978” 
In the title sequence for the first season of the ESPN Classic
series Cheap Seats, narrator Dan Patrick spins a Mystery Science
Theater-esque origin story for this Mystery Science Theater-
esque show, explaining how the original Cheap Seats host Ron
Parker was crushed by a shelf of old videotapes, leaving
librarians Jason and Randy Sklar to take on the gig of
introducing clips from the ESPN archive, which the boys then
proceeded to mock. This was all fiction, of course. The Sklars
weren’t really tape librarians, and weren’t really second and
third on the Cheap Seats depth chart (behind Ron Parker and
ahead of out-of-work quarterback Ryan Leaf). No, in the real
world—our world—the Sklar brothers got the job from their old
Sunday school teacher.  Jason and Randy Sklar had a fast start
in the comedy business. While still in their mid-20s, not too
long after moving from their native St. Louis to New York City,
they landed their own MTV sketch serie