“The Daily Show with Trevor Noah” has some questions about online fantasy sports, and Thursday night’s show wanted to know: Is online fantasy sports as bad as everyone has said?
Investigations have been opened by the FBI and the New York Attorney General.
“Something tells me this is the result of some FBI agent slacking off at work,” host Trevor Noah said. “Sitting there like, ‘No, I wasn’t checking my fantasy team. I’m investigating… crimes.’ “
Daily online fantasy sports aren’t considered gambling, the show reported, but it has been compared to high frequency and insider trading. Senior fantasy sports correspondent Jordan Klepper didn’t buy it.
“Why are you trying to kill something so beautiful?” Klepper asked. “Without fantasy, what’s the point of football? Without money at stake, I’d just be watching grown men gradually give each other brain damage. Sick!”
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Like lotteries, just another tax for folks that are bad at math.
I’m going to start a gambling club at work. I’m going to get ten guys to give me a dollar each, then at the end of the week I’ll draw one of their names out of a hat and give one of them 5 bucks. I’ll keep the other five just to cover my cost of operation and won’t even pay myself a salary. Seems fair to me. And hey, I won’t even play so that will keep me “honest”…ha ha ha…I’ll have my kids college paid off in no time!