12 Hilarious WWE Backstage Skits You Probably Don't Remember
4. For Pity’s Sake, Let The Man Sleep
Possibly a slight amount of cheating here, as we’re not just talking about one moment, one segment: we’re talking about the ongoing, running gag that is Kevin Owens struggling to find a place to nap backstage, only to be interrupted by WWE’s cavalcade of gnat-like backstage interviewers.
Whether it’s Jo-Jo, Renee Young, Rich ‘Milhouse’ Brennan or Eden Stiles, Owens’ capacity to be hilariously peevishly aggrieved at anything and anyone remains unmatched in the history of wrestling. There’s nothing - no compliment, no statement of fact, no action of any kind - that Kevin Owens can’t construe as a personal insult, and as the following brilliantly edited compilation shows, he gives as good as he believes he gets.
I’m in two minds as to whether Owens’ passive-aggressive jerkface persona is too damn entertaining to be truly heelish… but if that’s the case, there’s no one better to teach him how to course correct that than Chris Jericho.