Mike Rowe tries to sell a bag - VIDEO

Via the AOL viral video site This Just In (AOL also owns TV Squad) comes a video featuring a very young-looking Mike Rowe (currently the host of Dirty Jobs on the Discovery Channel) selling a cat toy on QVC. Rowe was a presenter on the channel in the early '90s.

Give Rowe credit, because he's trying his best to sell a product that is, for all intents and purposes, a glorified grocery bag, but how enthusiastic can the poor guy get about a bag that even QVC's resident cat doesn't seem to care about? I suppose he could have got inside the bag himself . . . oh wait, he did.

I'm a fan of Rowe on Dirty Jobs because he strikes just the right balance of "fella next door" and genuine smart-assery. That combination is apparent here, too, but in the QVC setting where every product is supposed to be presented as if it's the most important purchase you'll ever make, Rowe's barely-contained sarcasm is doubly hilarious.