Mick Foley talks awful WCW vignettes

Mick Foley will be the special guest on The Daily Show this Thursday. Courant.com has an <interview with Foley here, who was promoting his one man show this Sunday at the Hartford Funny Bone in Manchester, CT. During the interview, Foley discussed the awful "Lost In Cleveland" vignettes in WCW that were filmed after Foley suffered a legitimate concussion during a match with Vader. In the vignettes, Foley went crazy and was institutionalized, only to escape and develop amnesia.

"Off the top of my head, I would say nothing approached the levels of awfulness that 'Lost in Cleveland' did," Foley admitted. "What's funny about that segment is it was actually before its time in that it was completely scripted and heavily produced. A lot of what you see in sports entertainment is that way now, but like you said, it was the wrong tone. Everything about it was wrong, but the idea of filming vignettes as an ongoing saga was not necessarily a bad idea.

"I knew the 'Lost in Cleveland' segment was going to be awful, but once I heard the phrase, 'We'll take you off the road for four months and pay you' [while WCW promoted the vignettes], I was completely sold, and I took that time to have some much-needed knee surgery. All was not lost. I was home for four months, I had knee surgery. When I came back, in people's minds, they realized it was ridiculous, and they were just happy to see me back again."