"That's gotta hurt!" (1989)

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Mon, 8 Nov 2004 13:59:57 -0600, Mullins, Bill <Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL>
wrote:
>
>Willie and Frankie were played by Billy Crystal and Christopher Guest
>(respectively), during the 1984-85 season of SNL.  A transcript of one of
>their dialogues is here:
>http://snltranscripts.jt.org/84/84ewillie.phtml
>
>This is the only one of their sketches transcribed on the site, and "that's
>gotta hurt" doesn't appear in it.  I remember their catch phrase as being
>more along the lines of "I hate it when that happens".
>
>The phrase "That's gotta hurt" does appear in this skit from 2/10/1990:
>http://snltranscripts.jt.org/89/89lwaltman.phtml

I vaguely recall "That's gotta hurt" being popularized in the mid- to late
'80s by sportscaster Marv Albert in his appearances on "Late Night with
David Letterman".  Marv would always bring a reel of sports bloopers that he
would narrate in his inimitable style.

--Ben Zimmer