10 Great Wrestling Moments That Not Enough People Have Seen
5. Creative Has Nothing For You
With just one broken system in place, a system that had no use for him, Colt Cabana created his own and, in the process, a new outlet with which to get over in the North American wrestling scene. Cabana broke new ground on which Zack Ryder, the Young Bucks and Sammy Guevara travelled to wider recognition.
Cabana's Creative Has Nothing For You series was more influential than the iconic and transformative Being The Elite, but it was equally as funny. Cabana, a great comedy wrestler, writing in tandem with comedian Marty DeRosa, knew his way around a skit.
Colt plays Colt, or Scotty Goldman, in a very familiar wrestling company. DeRosa plays the ironic 'Creative', a composite of the hapless and ignorant Creative Writer employed by said wrestling company. Seven episodes in, and DeRosa can't remember Cabana's name, which is both much funnier than an episode one gag and an acute summation of just how drastically knackered that system is: it's all so impersonal, when the one person that matters isn't allowed to write his own sh*t.
A constant confusion of context, the more absurd the joke is, the more it rings true; people spend years in that place banging their heads against a brick wall, and 'Creative', to neat comedic effect, is as oblivious as one.