Name: Stephen Colbert's "Prove It" - Can Asher Dunk? Episode 4 feat. Coach Rick Pitino
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Give it up for Louis Cato and the Lakeshore Band right over there.

Come on, come on. Folks, tonight, I am proud to present the first-ever fourth installment of our groundbreaking segment

Ja Morant of the Memphis Grizzlies delivered this mind-bending double-pump dunk.

Obviously, it's a feat of extraordinary physical grace and athletic ability, and no ordinary person could do that, is what any sane person would say.

My writer Asher Perlman, who, after seeing that dunk, texted his friend Andrew, quote, "...the specific way in which I'm crazy is that

I think I could do that if you gave me six months."

Well, viewers of the show will know that we've been helping Asher try to prove that once a month ever since.

And it's time for another check-in. Please welcome my writer and self-diagnosed crazy person, Asher Perlman.

I got you a trainer. I sent you to train with superstar coach Rick

Coach of both the Knicks and the Celtics.

He's taken six different colleges to the NCAA tournament, three to the

Here he is at his current school, giving a pep talk at St. John's in Queens, New York.

Don't you know what adversity is all about?

That's the f***ing game of life, not the game of basketball.

You don't f***ing get down when things go wrong.

Shoots straight from the hip. Yes, he does.

I know you did because we filmed it. Jim?

I went to St. John's University to meet with legendary basketball coach Rick Pitino.

And you know I was taking it seriously because I was willing to travel to Queens. Asher? Hey.

Okay. Yeah. Are you close to dunking a basketball?

That's not very good. And then here's two.

That's not very good also. Maybe it's the fact that you weren't in basketball gear.

Well there, there, there I'm in shorts. Okay.

What do you think of that one? It's getting better.

You think it's getting better? A little bit. You hit the rim.

Colbert said that I was getting lower. Is that right? So can you look dead to camera and tell him that he's wrong? He's making progress. I think he's, his vertical right now is that of a junior high basketball player.

So based on this, what would you say I'm doing right?

I'm not quite sure what you're doing right. How are you physically?

Can I, can I put you through some basketball drills and you get through that? Yes.

And my back, I throw up my back very frequently. Maybe about once a month or so. Yeah.

I'm going to put you through one drill. I want to see it.

I want you to come on the backboard and hit it hard.

And then I want you to slide quickly back.

Hit the backboard. Each time I'm going to yell at you to get up higher.

Okay. Cool. But you're going to pound that backboard.

Now you're supposed to just hold on to this basketball though.

I can't hold on to it. Can I ask you something?

Yeah. Because you're kind of the king of the motivational halftime speech.

And I'm about halfway to the end of the whole thing. Could you give me one of your trademark motivational speeches?

So right now you're handling adversity very well. You're failing.

Miserably. Because you're not even close to dunking the basketball.

Every ounce of perspiration you have in you, you must put forth right now.

Let's take one step and try to touch it with two hands. Okay.

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