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Joel McHale jokes about Jason Pierre-Paul’s fireworks accident at ESPY Awards

July 15, 2015 by Gordon Dixon • Comments
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ESPN’s annual ESPY Awards show aired on Wednesday and, as usual, the biggest names in sports were in the audience. Ronda Rousey was there and delivered a jab at Floyd Mayweather after taking home the award for Best Fighter.

Also making an appearance was Jason Pierre-Paul, sort of.

During his opening monologue, host Joel McHale announced the Giants defensive end as being in attendance. Cameras then cut to the above pictured fake finger with a Super Bowl ring on it laying on a chair.

Some thought it was gross. Others thought it was in poor taste. Most saw it as funny. The bottom line is, the ESPYs are a fun occasion and there was little chance Pierre-Paul’s mishap with fireworks that resulted in him having a finger amputated wasn’t going to come up as the subject of a joke at some point during the evening. McHale just happened to be the one who delivered it.

Photo via: Twitter/SportsNation

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