Comments on: The Late Movies: Local News Bloopers

By: Lindsey

Lindsey — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:24:00 +0000

“report friend” = “reporter friend”

By: Lindsey

Lindsey — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:23:16 +0000

There’s one that I’ve never seen online but a report friend had on tape of a Louisiana weather girl 15-20 years ago explaining that hurricanes are named by their severity. I.e., a strong storm would be A, B or C, while smaller storms would be X, Y, Z…

By: PartiallyDeflected

PartiallyDeflected — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:32:13 +0000

We just had one recently that went something like this:

Anchor: “. . . and one of the people honored was our own (Feature Reporter) or as she’s better known Mrs. (Weatherman).”

Weatherman: “Actually, nobody knows about that.”

By: Hyacinth

Hyacinth — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:54:10 +0000

My two favorites I have seen happen live were the Memphis weather woman who saw that winds were “L/V” and decided it meants winds were “out of the left; and also a Memphis weatherman who proclaimed that due to numerous power outages from recent storms “a lot of folks will be sleeping in the dark tonight.” duh.

By: VM

VM — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:41:59 +0000

“Iâ€™ll bet she was angry at whomever was making her laugh off-camera.”

If she was looking at any monitor displaying that picture of the bug-eyed murder suspect, she didn’t need anyone off-camera to make her laugh. When it flashed onscreen I laughed from pure kneejerk reaction.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:49:16 +0000

I love the phony ones, but I wouldn’t be so quick to declare the Fox News one just a pranker. That appears to have been from the initial iPhone release. Have you forgotten what people were like over that? I think there’s a good chance that guy wanted the phone and just made the wrong grab.

By: the Cosmic Jester

the Cosmic Jester — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 07:46:43 +0000

There are a couple of recent ones of these that I’ve seen recently. One that happened last month is when Ernie Anastos in New York… well, I’m sure he MEANT to say “plucking”…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdnXYWSa56w

And another lesson in proper punctuation came from none other than the BBC:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loWFypHb48k

By: Johnny Cat

Johnny Cat — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:52:07 +0000

Fox News is great entertainment. Their photographer is named “Hollywood” and they’re so concerned about the reporter and the iphone, when it was obviously just a pranker.

By: Helenann

Helenann — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 02:40:57 +0000

I cannot stop giggling about, “..but he’s gay! Wha? BLIND. He’s blind.”
It’s my new favorite. Thanks for cheering up a total fail day…

By: Anon Emous

Anon Emous — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 02:15:20 +0000

One of the Winston Salem, NC weather guys (same news team as the one with the unfortunate ‘Rapping Traffic Girl who featured on this site months ago re ‘Epic Fails) was on one of those ‘Bloopers’ shows for the way he chose to report the lack of rain.

I forgot the way he began, but it finished up with ‘kiss(ing) your wet dreams goodbye’