“Saturday Night Live” guest host Shane Gillis and the rest of the SNL staff spent their time trashing Wild Sports Betting’s advertising techniques with a fake DraftKings ad.
“We all know a friend who is struggling with online gambling, a friend who is on the verge of losing their home, their family, their entire life,” Kenan Thompson and Gillis said on “SNL.”
“And now you can bet on how he’ll lose it all with the Rock Bottom Kings,” the two comedians say in the skit, which features an app and logo that closely resembles DraftKings Sportsbook. Showed off.
“Rock Bottom Kings is the only app where you can place prop bets on how a depraved gambler’s friends will ultimately hit rock bottom.”
The purpose of the skit is to joke that DraftKings and other sports betting operators are promoting winners even though some gamblers are struggling with addiction and losing large sums of money.
SNL actor Andrew Dismukes also played out a scenario in which a person bets their child’s college funds on a coin toss and hits rock bottom.
They also theorized that someone with a true gambling addiction could have taken out life insurance on their mother, and the fake app would allow them to bet at +425.
Another fake betting option is “Set up a fake Go-Fund Me saying you have leukemia +750.”
But don’t forget about parlays. SNL introduced a four-leg parlay for Gambler’s Downfall.
Get Divorced (+100) + Marry a Rich Old Widow (+200) + Get Arrested for Elder Fraud (+300) + Pretend to be dead, but get arrested as soon as you use the app to gamble (1000/1).
Longtime fans of the satirical comedy show will remember that before sports betting was legal, John Oliver ran a similar fake ad claiming that people were addicted to everyday fantasies. Maybe.
Oddly enough, comparing sports betting to daily fantasy is an ongoing debate among fans and players alike. PricePicks and Underdog have dominated the daily fantasy industry.
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This comes as sports betting companies, which once claimed that fantasy sports betting is not gambling, are now attacking the company for stealing market share by posing as a fantasy sports service.
Especially during this year’s Super Bowl, the amount of gambling advertising is having a negative impact on many people, so this skit may hit home for those who are tired of constant betting content.
