Until midway through the 2008 season the show also took place at the Monday Night Football host stadium as Kornheiser was a part of the Monday broadcast team ; after that Kornheiser hosted from an undisclosed location in the host city while Wilbon hosted from the PTI studios in Washington.

Anthony Irwin " Tony " Kornheiser (; born July 13, 1948 ) is an American sportswriter and former columnist for The Washington Post, as well as a radio and television talk show host.

For ESPN Radio, he served as host of Major League Baseball and as a guest host on The Tony Kornheiser Show and The Dan Patrick Show.

Between November 1995 and December 1996, Wolf was the guest host of The Tony Kornheiser Show on Thursdays on WTEM and sometimes he also flew to New York as a substitute sports anchor on Imus in the Morning when the regular sports anchor, Mike Breen, was away.

At the end of the regular season, when Drew made an appearance on the sports show PTI, host Tony Kornheiser suggested on the air that Drew be voted " unanimous coach of the year ".

On April 21 and 22, 2007, he appeared as a guest host, filling in for Michael Wilbon, alongside Tony Kornheiser on ESPN's Pardon the Interruption.

* Pardon the Interruption ( PTI ): Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon debate a fast-paced array of sports topics

Kornheiser then says " Welcome to ' PTI ', boys and girls ," and the hosts usually debate five or six topics.

Wilbon and Kornheiser still have their additional debate as a part of SC, but it is no longer treated as a formal part of PTI.

Kornheiser and Wilbon appeared as themselves on PTI in the 2004 film Mr. 3000, including doing a Role Play segment with Kornheiser posing as Stan Ross ( Bernie Mac ) at one point.

In the months leading up to the 2006 NFL season, Kornheiser would often offer self-deprecating comments on the PTI show, saying that he'd be horrible for the MNF job or that he wished that certain people that are topics on the show would ride the bus with him to the game, as he has an admitted fear of flying.

On the April 6, 2006, edition of PTI, the same day that the upcoming NFL season's schedule was released, Kornheiser gave a humorous insight into how he felt about his upcoming travel schedule, sarcastically commenting about how there weren't any East Coast games on the schedule.

Starting in the 2006 NFL season, Kornheiser and Wilbon began hosting PTI from the stadium that was hosting the Monday Night Football game.

Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon questioned Boggs on an episode of ESPN's Pardon the Interruption.

It is hosted by Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon, who discuss, and frequently argue over, the top stories of the day in " sports ... and other stuff " ( as Kornheiser put it in the show's original promo ).

* WTNT, ESPN Radio affiliate for Washington, DC ( where both Kornheiser and Wilbon are based ), airs the entire show at 7: 05 p. m. Eastern Time and again at 5: 30 a. m. the next morning.

Pardon the Interruption is unique in its studio layout, featuring a " wall " full of cut-out cardboard heads of athletes and celebrities that have previously been used in the " Role Play " segment, bobblehead dolls of the show's hosts and Reali, Etch-A-Sketch art of Kornheiser and Wilbon, and several other toys and trinkets they have received, such as Kornheiser's beloved " Leg Lamp " from A Christmas Story, Stewie Griffin and Elmo.

Kornheiser and Wilbon welcome viewers to the show with opening banter.

" Wilbon will then put a question to Kornheiser concerning one of the day's sports or pop culture issues ( which he answers sarcastically ).

On rare occasion, Wilbon and Kornheiser will not open with typical joke, as in the case of starting the show talking about the death of Junior Seau.

Kornheiser and Wilbon interview a sports figure, writer, or analyst typically for a period of time from three to five and a half minutes.

There have also been occasions where Kornheiser or Wilbon, while on vacation or in another city to cover an event and not hosting the show, have been the subject of " Five Good Minutes " themselves.

On a few occasions, the guest has appeared in studio with Kornheiser and Wilbon.

Recently, the sexual nature of the title of this segment has been noticed, as a suggestive musical cue leads the segment as well as Kornheiser telling Wilbon on the first Role Play " Wilbon will give, I will receive ".

The game often involves made up or hyphenated words, and usually ends with Kornheiser using an adjective to aggrandize himself or berate Wilbon.

Kornheiser wears a turban, in the style of Carnac the Magnificent, while Wilbon does not dress up at all.

Kornheiser and Wilbon usually have variations in their lists, with Wilbon posting his as each team is introduced.

" Occasionally, the segment starts with Kornheiser talking gossip with Wilbon, someone yells that they are on, and then Kornheiser acts surprised.

If time allows, Reali ( nicknamed " Stat Boy ") corrects any factual errors that Kornheiser and Wilbon may have made.

From the time of the show's expansion in July 2005 until August 2009, Kornheiser and Wilbon would then give their recommendations for television viewing for the night as the last discussion segment of the show before SportsCenter.

Wilbon usually chooses a sporting event, while Kornheiser will often opt for pop-culture based programming ; most notably, he is a huge fan of American Idol and former fan of 24, which he says jumped the shark in Season 6.

The segment during SportsCenter was not initially shown in Canada, where the program airs on TSN, so when Wilbon makes the toss to Bristol, Connecticut, where ESPN's studios are located, Kornheiser usually says " Goodnight, Canada " while waving a small Canadian flag as Wilbon mentions the upcoming SportsCenter segment.

Alexander was also the principal executive producer of the series based very loosely on the life of the popular sports-media personality Tony Kornheiser.

In a commercial bumper during an episode of Pardon the Interruption that first aired August 3, 2010, Tony Kornheiser mentioned that in Frackville it's 20 degrees colder than anywhere else on Earth.

He serves as an analyst for ESPN and co-hosts Pardon the Interruption on ESPN with former Post writer Tony Kornheiser, and has been doing so since 2001.

In February 2010, fellow ESPN colleague Tony Kornheiser criticized her outfit that day on his radio show, saying that her outfit looked like: " A sausage casing ", and was suspended from ESPN for two weeks.

When this happens, the guest will sit on Wilbon's side of the table, sitting diagonally from Kornheiser.

" Kornheiser will wave the show logo ( on a stick ) in front of his face and tell someone ( usually a famous person or someone he knows ) to go to his / her room, inspired by Betty Draper's parenting on Mad Men.

Finally, on March 27, 2006, Kornheiser for the first time hosted the show away from the studio while Wilbon remained back at the set, as Kornheiser was in Orlando, Florida, covering the NFL owners meetings.

was based on the life of Tony Kornheiser.

He also took the time to apologize to fans in Jacksonville, Florida, whose city Kornheiser described in his Washington Post column as having only Waffle Houses, since there was a Monday Night game in Jacksonville on September 18, the second week of the NFL season.

Kornheiser said on the show that if at all possible, he would like to avoid traveling to the city of Seattle again since each time he went there, the weather was atrocious ( such as the downpour and wind that was constant in week 9 against Oakland and the snowstorm in week 12 against Green Bay ).