Connor Mook talent show dance video takes over Barstool
TLDR: Connor Mook swore on a Barstool stream that he is not a dancer, and within days an old school talent show clip of him dancing to LMFAO was all over the company's timelines.
Thursday morning someone dropped the receipt, and the building lost its mind. Here's the clip everybody is passing around.
This is the greatest video of all time. You ate that shit up queen @ConnorMook_
Nobody is officially saying which dancer is which, and that's half the fun. The song is LMFAO's 'Sexy and I Know It', the 2011 hit, which tells you roughly which era of high school we're dealing with. The neon shorts over blue leggings do the rest. The reaction across Barstool was mostly roasting, with a weird amount of respect mixed in. People came in expecting cringe and stayed for the choreography.
What makes it a story and not just a random throwback is the timing. Mook had already gone on the record. On the Owners Meeting stream, sitting next to Jersey Jerry and SAS, he flatly denied being a dancer while the other 2 cracked up and hinted that something was coming Thursday.
That is a terrible thing to say when somebody in your life has the tape. In a separate podcast segment, the hosts pushed Mook on whether he had ever done a dance performance. Someone close to him had already shown them a video of him dancing to LMFAO at a high school competition, so they knew the answer before he did. He got defensive fast and threatened to walk out.
It's a classic Barstool trap. Deny something on camera, and you've basically promised the company a content arc. Mook is a former accountant turned stand-up and podcaster, which is about the last resume you'd expect to come with a crop-top-era dance routine. That contrast is exactly why the clip landed so hard.
By the afternoon it had made it to Pardon My Take, where Big Cat had Mook on to explain the talent show video and, by Big Cat's account, give him credit for crushing it. Getting dragged onto the flagship show to account for your high school self is a rite of passage around here. Mook got there by insisting he wasn't a dancer, which was always going to end this way.
So the denial is dead and the tape is out. The only thing left is whether Mook leans into it. People are already asking for an encore, and Barstool has never let a bit like this die quietly. Expect this clip to come back every time Mook claims he can't do something.
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