12 Hilarious WWE Backstage Skits You Probably Don't Remember

Dustin ‘Goldust’ Runnels’ tag team partnership with his old WCW buddy Booker T back in 2002 was one of that year’s pleasant surprises, Booker instantly playing the straight man to Goldust’s outlandish eccentric as though he’d been doing it for years.

Part of the reason they worked so well together is that Booker T was already perfectly on the same page with Runnels when it came to playing the weirdo, although he wouldn’t get to show it for another few years, until winning the King Of The Ring tournament in 2006 and becoming the wonderfully peculiar King Booker. He’d modify the routine in TNA years later for a more ethnically resonant take on oblivious heel royalty, and gloriously ham it up as a colour commentator back in WWE again.

Here, though, it’s Goldust’s time to shine, ably supported by Booker and Christian, no slouch himself when it came to comedy sketches.

The whole skit is great, giving you a briefly touching moment between the tag team champions when you think Goldust’s gonna screw it up by making a lewd reference to his testicles, then pulling it back up, before Christian comes along to drag the segment back down again.

The reference to ointment of the hindquarters stems from a segment earlier in the year when the Dudley Boyz stole Christian and Jericho’s bags and gave away their belongings to the live crowd, including a pint-size jar of ‘4ss Cream’.

No one knows what 4ss Cream is supposed to be for - whether it’s a topical fungicide, a lubricant or a moisturiser, but everyone’s agreed that it’s supposed to be incredibly embarrassing to be caught owning it. Indeed, the matter’s considered so taboo that the word is, as you can see, one of those banned by our website’s development team… although that might be to do with their irrational fear of donkeys.