News Reporter Bloopers: 2011

TV Anchor Gets hit in the head by a laptop

ABC World News Now morning anchor was talking about a news study that showed how exposure to wifi signals for more than 4 hours may negatively impact a man's sperm count... After reporting on the story he promptly shuts his laptop to remove it from the desk and his laptop hits the other reporter in the head.

MyFoxNY reporter yells at a fat kid

New York's Fox affiliate was doing a field report and wouldn't you know that a fat kid wants his 15 minutes of fame and starts waving and jumping around in front of the camera man. And given that this in NYC, he gets called out an yelled at by the reporter.

KOMO explains why the Salmon crossed the road...

After recent heavy rains rivers overflowed their banks and started crossing the roadway, and local KOMO news shows how the fish crossed the road. It seems to give new meaning to swimming upstream.

Herman Cain Train Music Video

Here's a funny video of the "Herman Cain Train"---It looks like quite a bit of footage was filled from Daily Plaza in Chicago during a tea-party gathering in early 2011... But given Herman's recent problems, I find the footage of trains passing through tunnels to be quite Freudian.

Rick Perry Jokes on the David Letterman Top 10 List

After Rick Perry made national news for flubbing his response during the CNBC 2012 republican debate by forgetting one of the three departments he'd cut out, David Letterman decided to have a little fun at Rick's expense by making him the topic of his famous "Top-10" list.

2011 News Anchor Fails / Bloopers

Here's a compilation of all the funniest news bloopers during the past year... Plenty of anchors mis-speaking and laughing and in general screwing up.

Jessy Ventura is all fired up about the TSA

Jessy Ventura has tried to sue the TSA in federal court for unlawful search. And the court refused to hear the case... And boy was he mad. Ventura vows to never fly commercial again, and is considering Mexican citizenship... He also said he is thinking of running for president... Given all of Herman Cains recent problems, Jessy could probably quickly become a contender ;-)

Jimmy Kimmel eats his kids Halloween Candy

Jimmy Kimmel challenged his viewers to tell their kids, "I ate all your halloween candy" and film the child's reaction. There's plenty of crying, yelling and pouting---It almost seems like a malicious prank on the parts of the parents to just get 5 seconds of fame on ABC's late night comedy show. Would you ever consider doing this (for real or for laughs) to your kids?

Reporter Mocks Courtney and Kim Kardashian

When the Kardashian girls were doing the local news interview circuit to push their products and marketing empire, one the interview was over the anchor man mocked the Kardashians for being vain and having poofy shoulder pads.

Fox Reporter's fitness ball fall

During the fox news morning show they brought in a personal trainer to show the crew how to lift weights while on an exercise ball. Since the morning host was in a skirt, she didn't want to get down and lift, so a camera man (who was pretty old) started doing some chest presses on the wall. The poor guy ended up falling over off the exercise ball when he stopped lifting and attempted to stand up. I guess you cant' teach an old-guy new tricks.

Jay Leno Headlines

NBC's Jay Leno who hosts his late night comedy show every weeknight has become famous for a skit in which he shows funny and strange headlines that various newspapers and magazines around the country have published. It's amazing what makes it past the editors. Fortunately for viewers, Jay has a small army that can find the best and most funny headlines and reports to bring to his viewers every Monday night. This particular clip is from 2005---but is on par with what's usually on his show. What do you think?

Improv Anywhere - No Pants Subway Ride

Those wacky kids in New York City who belong to Improv Anywhere sometimes get together to do crazy things... These people met up in the winter time and about 100 of them decided to ride the subway without pants---they were just in there underwear and plenty of passengers had no idea what's going on. A few of the passengers (who weren't in on the gag) were smiling and laughing... And a few guys were even busy gawking at the girls.

Kimberly Craig Falls Down at a Haunted House

Detroit's local ABC affiliate WXYZ sent Kimberly Craig out to Pontiac's Erebus Haunted House during Halloween 2011 and while she's talking to the haunted house organizer and has a variety of ghouls and zombies hovering about a huge blast of smoke and air knocks Kimberly Craig to the ground. This clearly surprised her and her camera man; but given that it's live TV, she kept her poise and tossed it back to the anchors within the studio.

Building Explodes Early

While reporting on scene of a large building demolition, this local reporter says, "In about 5 minutes it's going to come down" just before the explosion starts and brings down the building.

East Coast Snow - Trick or Treat

The east coast snow storm that hit the East Coast this Halloween is dumping up to 2 feet of snow and caused power outages for over 1.5 million people. Needless to say, air traffic was disrupted as was trick-or-treating. It's a good thing the buffalo bills are playing Toronto this weekend... Otherwise it would have been a mess for sports fans in Upstate New York.

Playboy bunnies surprise WGN Weatherman

Ms. January 2010 and Ms. July 2002 surprise Chicago's WGN (Channel 9) weather man while he's reporting live. One of their outfits match the green-screen so the temperatures are showing up all over her body. The meteorologist quips when they leave, "is there anybody on the crew left in here?"

KTLA's Allie MacKay Uses the Shake Weight

KTLA's news team does a hard hitting report on the shake-weight---A crazy exercise device that Saturday Night Live once spoofed. And the funny thing is the anchorman asks her (with a straight face)... "What do you like better? Do you like it fast or slow?" She answers that she likes to change it up.

They even bring up a South Park episode where a "cool down spray" comes out of the top of the shake-weight.

Another punchline from an older anchor is, "I've got a small white one, does that make a difference?"

Classic Reporter Blooper - 1980's Republican Convention

During the 1980's republican (Reagan) convention this reporter gets a little upset at not being able to hear his producers in his earpiece and also at the jovial conventioneers.

Dangerous Chicago Waves

Every so often when the wind blows from the East, Lake Michigan can send some large wave crashing into Chicago's lake front. The bike path along Lake Shore Drive becomes dangerous as waves 15 feet to 25 feet high go over the breakers.

Occasionally, there are bikers or runners that get swept over by the waves.

Soccer Fails

Here's a 5 minute series of a bunch of soccer fails. You'll see missed penalty kicks, awkward celebrations, and all sorts of goofy futball bloopers.

So if you've missed these games live, you catch all the laughs from this highlight reel.

Weather Girl caught eating on set

Fox 4's local weather personality thought she was off-camera, when she was actually on live TV stuffing her face with a snack. Other anchors were busy laughing at her, but the camera stayed on her and she had no idea. Instead she just kept eating.

I think in the future she'll snack in the lunchroom.

Andy Roddick Yells at Reporter

After Tennis superstar Andy Roddick recently lost in the Beijing Open a reporter asked him a question about a statement he said years ago claiming that he'd retire if his ranking dropped too low. Andy paused and told the reporter he should retire, the crowd applauded and then andy walked off the stage. You could tell he was really upset. But I think the reporter needed to be put in his place.

Humane Society Blooper

In this classic TV blooper a local news reporter is hyping up a dog that is being put up for adoption while a 2-year old boy sits on her lap. The wonky camera man zooms in on the boy instead of the dog and it seems as if the news personality is talking about the looking for a home for the child and not really for the puppy.

Hurricane Streaker

During Hurricane Irene when the weathermen were busy reporting from storm-hit Virginia Beach, some local-yokals decided to run-around shirtless behind the meteorologist. Then one of the guys decides to give a full moon to the camera man and the at-home viewers.

New York Reporter gets Pantsed

A local Channel 4 KOHA reporter was reporting about some street performers doing a Manhattan based performance to promote alternative energy when some bystander runs up behind him and pulls down the reporter's pants showing his underwear.

Oh the dangers of live TV.

Maryland Reporter Tucker Barnes Gets Soaked in Sewage Sea Foam During Hurricane Irene

A local reporter from Washington, D.C. ended up getting soaked in what is probably the remnants of raw sewage as he delivered live hurricane reports from Ocean City, Maryland.

WTTG-TV reporter Tucker Barnes was providing live updates for stations around the country as a wall of what he described as sea foam poured over him.

Barnes was on the boardwalk as Hurricane Irene hit the coast of Maryland
He noted that he had immersed himself in organic material. That "organic material" was most likely the effects of raw sewage pouring into the water during the storm.

"It doesn't taste great," he said.

He said it had a sandy consistency and added, "I can tell you first-hand, it doesn't smell great."

Planking Man Stuck in Man Hole

Fox's local news caster tells the story of a Ceres man who got stuck in a man hole. Only his feet remained sticking out of the storm drain. To make things even funnier, the female reporter struggles to remove the iron grate and sticks her arms and head into the storm drain to recreate the event.

The man claims he was roughed up by some other kids who tossed his cell phone down the drain; he went to retrieve it and got stuck there for over 40 minutes before the neighbors spotted his shoes sticking up out of the hole.

Christine Ensinga Gets Splashed With Water

Recently when a New York state mom left her infant in the car during a hot day for 15 minutes in the Kmart parking lot, police were called to the situation. The local news reporter Christine Ensinga tried to go to the 26 year old mom's residence to interview her. However, the reporter was greeted at the door with a bucket of water tossed in her face and later on with a hose of water spraying on her. It looked like the child's grandmother was behind the water works; and the negligent mother didn't want be photographed by any body.

Ice Cold Kool-Aid in Detroit

Here's a funny clip from Detroit's local news cast. After a recent bout of strong storms knocked out power for a full 5 days (which isn't uncommon in South East Michigan), the Detroit Edison work crews finally got to one lady's block who happened to be super excited because now she can "drink ice cold kool-aid and sleep like a baby".

Georgetown Fights Chinese Basketball team

Recently the Georgetown mens basketball team were visiting China as part of a goodwill tour. During one particularly physical game with tons of fouls called (mainly against the hoyas), a fight breaks out. Punches were thrown, players were pushed, the benches cleared out, and even chairs were thrown. After a while the tensions calm down enough for John Thompson to lead his team back off of the court to the locker room and by that time the crowd was throwing bottles.

The two teams supposedly made up after the event and are supposed to play a second game on Sunday night in Shanghai.

Reporter--"Man has more pussy (cats) than he can handle"

Now local news reporters can frequently be a little bit lame and not really know too many slang words... But this news lady is a piece of work---The teaser is that this "man has more pussy (cats) than he can handle."

It's almost like she never went to Junior High School to develop a juvenile sense of humor.

Reporter Tries To Report at Firing Range

Now this is just plain silly. A local CBS affiliate beat reporter is reporting his story while at the firing range. He's wearing ear-protection himself, while a shooter fires a handgun many times down-range to the target. The viewer can't hear any of the report only the bang-bang-bang of the gun going off. The audio-engineer had be nuts to allow such a thing.

San Diego News Jet Pack Fail

San Diego's local fox field reporter was at the Marina during the start of the news broadcast standing next to a boat and a guy with a water powered jet pack on his back. When the Jet-Pack man tried to take off, he almost knocks the reporter into the water, but instead he flies head first into the ocean.

The producers cut back to the main news team who are laughing and trying to figure out what's going on and then cut back for a few seconds so we can see that the man can actually fly around in his water propulsion jet pack.

Tampa's Josh Cascio Misses a Short Soccer Kick

Tampa Florida's Fox affiliate WTVT was doing a report on the women's world cup soccer tournament in 2011 when he decided to rather than "toss it back" to the anchors to "kick it back" to them by kicking a soccer ball into a little goal about 10 feet away. The poor chump misses by a wide margin and the anchor lady busts his chops a little bit.

Bob Eubanks comments on the "in the butt" blooper on the newlywed game

Bob Eubanks the host of the Newlywed Game decides to share his thoughts on the most famous clip from the show when he asks, "Where is the most unusual place you had whoopi?" and the lady answers "In the butt bob."

Apparently that never actually aired. What she really said was, "in the a$$" but the producers tossed that vulgar language---however, when a filmmaker wanted to use it, they paid the lady $5,000 and she gave her permission for the outtake to be used in some film.

KHOU's Brad caught smoking during a fire

KHOU was covering a local fire and their local field report Brad was busy smoking his cigarette while the anchors switched over to him. He promptly grabbed the mike and started reporting on the accident. Overall he did a good job for being surprised.

Funniest Field Crashers and Sports Streakers

Here's a funny highlight reel of people crashing sports field in a variety of ways during live competitions. Whether it's a bikini girl interrupting a soccer match or a "referee" with a tear away uniform to streak across a football field it's pretty humorous. Although, these mad-dashers have to look out for the security guards or players who tend to be prone to trip or tackle the people.

MNF -- Packers vs. Bears a fan catches the extra point attempt

At work today I was talking about one of the major highlights from Monday Night Football of yesteryear. In 1995, the Green Bay Packers were playing the Chicago Bears at Soldier field when one of the kickers kicked an extra point well over the net and some fan jumped out of the stands (and probably 10 - 15 feet off of the ground) and he catches the football.

After the catch he makes his way back to his seat, the announcers are shocked that he didn't break his legs or twist his ankles, and he does an on camera interview in which he says that he's from the north side of Chicago, played high school football and has great hands... Best of all---the guy has a mullet (Party on Wayne, Party on Garth)...

Talk Soup Makes Fun of NBC and CBS's morning shows

Joel McHale of talk soup fame on E! took to task a morning anchor from "Good Morning America" for repeatedly asking the daughter of a face-transplant reciepent of what the Mom will say once she recovers--even though she's blind. The daughter kept saying, "my mom's blind" but the reporter just didn't get it.

Then in a different news segment, the reporters were trying to show how dangerous it is to play with fire---but the T-shirt on a stick never caught ablaze even though it was inches away from the flame... They said things went better during rehearsal.

Canucks Hockey Fan Jumps Over Burning BMW

After the Vancouver Canucks lost the 2011 NHL champtionship, the crazy hockey fans (hoodlums) decided riot. During the chaos, somebody lit a new BMW M5 car on fire and plenty of partiers/rioters were cheering and taking pictures and one (probably intoxicated) bloke decided to try and jump over the car. The kid takes a spill in the firy car before rolling off of it. The local news reporter could only say, "no that's an idiot".

Pat Tomasulo spoofs the entire WGN morning show cast

Chicago sports reporter Pat Tomasulo spoofed the entire WGN morning show cast. He dresses up in costume and I think it's funny how he pretends to be Robin Bumgartner during the bridge implosion skit. He also dons a bald-man big-ear look to mimic the weather man.

All and all, this is probably why he was picked to cohost Regis and Kelly.

Phoenix ABC Reporter Gets Sprayed by a Sprinkler

ABC's local Phoenix, Arizona affiliate had one of their beat reporters outside of the town hall doing a report one evening this week, when all of sudden the lawn sprinklers turn on behind the guy--This ended up showering some water on him and between the reporter and camera man---It's almost like that BW3 commercial.

Camel Eats Reporter's Hair

NBC 12 - Richmond decided to send their local field reporter to some sort of farm to do a puff-piece of news. Tara Morgan happily starts her story with the camel off to her left, and then the two-humped beast decides to take a bite of Tara's hair.

The camera man and Ms. Morgan jump into action to release her from the jaws of the dromedary. Maybe one of these days Tara will end up being an anchor and she won't have to do such dangerous work any more.

KTLA's Allie MacKay Uses the Shake-Weight at the Gym

The funny news team at KTLA in L.A. did a live shoot during May sweeps week in which Allie goes to the gym and uses the Shake Weight... The anchor's back in the studio get in on the fun---Somehow I think that they picked this goofy segment because of a spoof that Saturday Night Live did on the shake-weight bar-bell in which the women were using the exercise device quite suggestively.

Danish Soccer Coach Hits Reporter

After losing a football (Soccer) game by the score of 0-4, Randers FC coach Ove Christensen loses his temper and punches the reporter hard in the shoulder. As the subtitles show, the coach tells the reporter that he didn't hit him---He just tapped him on the shoulder to congratulate the news caster for doing such a good job on his sports report.

CBS's Palm Springs Reporter Gets Blown Away in the Wind

Recently high winds struck across California and CBS's local news field reporter gets blown away from the wind. The high speed gusts buffet her and blow the cap off of her head.

Czech President Steals a Pen Live During a Press Conference

During a recent press conference in Chili, the Czech president admires a nice pen, places it under the table (out of view), and pockets the writing instrument (as a souvenir of his trip to South America). Once his two hands are back above the table, there isn't a pen in sight and he decides to button up his blazer and act like nothing happened.

Car Crashes Behind Trisha Cruze on Live TV

During the evening news Trisha Cruise was busy doing a report and towards the end of the live television broadcast their was a car accident right behind her. She wasn't phased by the rear-end collision. Instead she wrapped up the segment and kicked it back to the anchor live in the studio.

Toronto Reporter Mark McCalister of Global News Can't Talk

Poor reporter Mark McCalister gets tongue tied when reporting on Libya---He has trouble reading his teleprompter and completely fumbles his lines. Mark may be talking but he certainly isn't making sense. Makes you wonder if he's having a brain aneurysm on the air.

An SUV backs into Ben Higgens - Sports Reporter from From San Diego

During the 2011 NCAA basketball tournament San Diego's news team sent Ben Higgens to Tucson to report on local teams playing in the tournament. During a live feed from outside of the arena an SUV was backing up long way and almost hit the sportscaster.

Fortunately his camera man slapped the side of the explorer just as it was inches away from Higgens and almost knocking him over. This was almost a scary day when the news caster would have been the news.

McDonalds Commercial with Lebron James and Larry Bird

So as I'm sitting on the couch watching the NCAA men's basketball tournament, an interesting commercial comes on. McDonalds has a funny spot that features Lebron James and Dwight Howard making a wager where the winner gets to eat a McDonalds lunch and the loser has watch the other eat it.

As the bet plays out, the two put on a fantastic slam-dunk show and when Howard breaks the backboard, they look towards the seat to see Larry Bird finishing up the last fry in the bag.

Then they say, "Who's that?"

For my younger readers out there, Larry Bird is not only one of the best players to play the game---but he has also appeared in a few other interesting McDonald's commercial of yesteryear.

Soccer Player Kicks an Owl

During a recent South American soccer match, one of the teams had their owl mascot end up on the field, and a player kicked the bird off the field. Animal rights activists are quite upset.

UCONN's Alex Oriakhi Free Throw Attempt Stays on the Rim

During a recent NCAA Men's basketball game featuring UCONN huskies versus West Virginia, Alex Oriakhi (#34 for the University of Connecticut) is shooting a free-throw with the game tied at 22 to 22.

He has one heck of a soft touch on his shot. Because the ball bounces on the rim and stays on the back-plate. The announcers were surprised, and in my 35 years of watching basketball I have never seen this happen--I didn't even think it was possible.

It's not that the ball was wedged between the rim and the backboard---no the round ball was perfectly balanced on the back-plate. In situations like this, I believe the officials regard the play as a jump ball and look towards the possession arrows to see who gets in-bound the basketball.

Baby Micah Laughs at Ripping Paper

This Morning on NBC's Saturday edition of "the Today Show", they showed a new web-hit of little baby Micah laughing hysterically at her Dad ripping a bunch of paper in front of her. It turns out the paper was actually a job rejection letter that the baby's father received in the mail that day.

When we watched this clip, both of us were laughing along with the little kid... It's definitely a fluff news piece that reporters frequently report on... I'm guessing when it's a slow news day, they just say, "let's find something interesting/funny/uplifting from youtube."

Seattle's KOMO reporter Shomari Stone Breaks up a Street Fight

Recently Seattle Based ABC reporter Shomari Stone was doing a shoot by the water front when two men start getting into a fist fight behind him. One guy was just pummeling the other guy and Shomari jumps into the fray and rescues the man.

It turns out the guy he saved had a checkered past and a criminal record. This is one time when the new caster helps to prevent more bad news from happening.

Snowman Slide in Lake Tahoe makes for fun sledding

What do you do when a winter storm approaches? Well for some clever residents of Lake Tahoe, Nevada they spent hours shoveling the snow and sculpting it to form what at first looks like a snowman, but that is really a self-contained figure-eight sledding hill.

This news clip is very impressive---kids have a ball sliding down the the back of the snowman and around a sharp hairpin turn before making their way through a tunnel carved out of the base of the snow man.

WGN's Pat Tomasulo Doesn't like Shirtless guys

WGN's morning sports reporter (or comedian) Pat Tomasulo doesn't really care for shirtless guys that run up & down the lake shore in Chicago. In this funny clip he wolf whistles like a construction worker at guys jogging; he tries to run after some topless guys while he wears a full suit with a water-bottle belt and does a few more jokes worthy of a stand up routine.

Belinda Heggen makes fun of Mark Aiston

In a classic funny clip of Australian TV bliss, anchor Belinda Heggen mocks sports reporter Mark Aiston... After showing a sports clip of an athlete holding up a really small trophy, Mark says, "Belinda, I just don't understand how something so small can be so impressive."

To which Heggen responds, "well Mark, you would know about that."

It was a pretty funny low-blow making fun of Mark's manhood.

Wayne Rooney's Bicycle Kick Goal

Wayne Rooney's Bicycle Kick Goal Against Manchester City from We All Scheme on Vimeo.

Wayne Rooney had an incredible bicycle kick to score a goal during the Manchester City and Manchester United Football (Soccer) match. It was really an impressive goal---a kick like that only comes around once in a lifetime.

Grammy Reporter Gets Tongue Tied

A cute blond reporter representing CBS 2, was busy working the 2011 Grammy awards when her brain malfunctions and she start speaking in tongues. For 10 seconds straight she says meaningless words that I can't even comprehend. I'm guessing that she may have been hired for looks instead of her brains---She's just making it way too easy for a multitude of dumb-blond jokes... At least she'll get her 15 minutes of internet video fame.

The Daily Show Reports on Fort Wayne's Harry Balls Government Center

Recently, Jon Stewart on the Daily show did a story on Fort Wayne, Indiana... The local news story talks about it may become the butt of jokes from the city hosting an online voting competition to name a local government center. After 10,000 votes... the winning name is "The Harry Balls Government Center"... Harry was a local mayor in the 1930's and 1940's --- And at that time, the name wasn't as strange as what it is now.

Apparently city leaders don't like the name, and are leaning towards something else. However, there are plenty of supporters for the Harry Baals government center.

Morning News Dance Party - KTLA style

When the local morning news team looks to have some fun and let loose at the end of the week, they frequently choose to go a little wild with Friday Dance Party.

The guys and gals at KTLA in LA, California (Sam, Cher, Frank and Michaela) were pleasantly surprised to have Richard Simmons (the diet guru) show up and help them kick it up a notch (Rockin' to the oldies style) They were busy dancing to Cool & the Gang's "Celebration".

Alpaca Charges an ESPN Reporter

How's this for a sports reporter blooper--ESPN reporter Miguel Fuento was covering an under-20 soccer tournament in Peru when a loose alpaca charges and chases after him. The poor sideline reporter had to look behind himself, drop his umbrella and run.

NBC Detroit shows a "Sweet Dog" (rottweiler) that bites another dog on live TV

Detroit's Local affiliate NBC 4 was doing a story about an illegal kennel where 61 dogs were kept in very poor conditions. Carmen the anchor pitches the segment to the field reporter who shows off a "very sweet dog" a large fully grown rottweiler who was slobbery and apparently had several litters of puppies. The animals handler commented on what bad things happened to this sweet dog when all of sudden the big pit-bull like critter goes up on her hind legs and bites a little lap-dog that another handler was holding...

Oh the dangers of live TV.

Jimmy Kimmel Shows a Weatherman getting hit by a snow plow

Jimmy Kimmel--the late night comedian shows a news clip from CNN's Headline News channel (HN) where a weatherman is reporting about a blizzard that has hit Oklahoma City---At first he sees one truck with a snow plow on it drive by---But then the second truck (that he doesn't see) hits the weatherman.

(At least this was fake).

Thundersnow Hits Chicago

Jim Cantore of the weather channel was reporting live from downtown Chicago during the great Blizzard of 2011, when the huge blizzard that dumped two feet of snow and packed 60 mph winds resulted in quite a few bouts of Thundersnow---A blizzard that is packed with lightning and thunder.

In all of my life, I've only seen it twice. It's truly a rare occurrence.

Model shows of some Super Soccer Skills

Here's an interesting clip from the fashion report. A good looking blond model sporting a nice white dress shows off her amazing soccer skills---she bounces the ball all over her legs and shoulders--in front and behind her---and then winds up kicking it off of camera.

In fact, she's so good at these tricky soccer moves, I wonder if the video is a fake and is just using some sort of CGI (computer generated images). Because, i don't think that models are usually that coordinated.

A Trampoline Jumper Dunks Himself through the Basketball Hoop

During a break at a recent Phoenix Suns NBA basketball game, they brought out the entertainers. A bunch of young guys who are jumping off of trampolines in order to get some major air and slam dunk the basketball. This one kid, gets a little too much air---He jumps off of the trampoline and dives through the basketball hoop. His whole body goes through the rim! And just seconds after he makes it through a teammate completes a dunk of his own.

This is a pretty wild clip---and should definitely make the sports highlights on your local newscast or even on ESPN.

Tracy Morgan thinks that Sarah Palin is Good Looking

For some reason the producers of TNT's basketball broadcast thought it would be a good idea to let Charles Barkley and the other sports hosts interview Tracy Morgan (of 30 Rock and Saturday night live fame)... And they ask him who's hotter Sarah Palin or Tina Fey (Liz Lemon). Needless to say Tracy says a PG-13 inappropriate comment about Sarah on live TV.

Kim Clijsters Calls Out a Sports Caster

At the Australian Open, Kim Clijsters is speaking with Todd Woodbridge (An Australian Sports Reporter), for writing that Kim looked grumpy and that she may be pregnant, because her boobs look bigger.

I think that poor Mr. Woodbridge wasn't ready to get called out on live TV and over the public address system at the tennis stadium. The crowd really had a good laugh and applause in response to Kim throwing Todd under the bus after his goofy text/tweet.

Now we'll just have to see who's going to be the player to win this year's Open.

Sunrise's Simon Reeve's Magic Whistle makes Horses go #2

The morning news program "Sunrise" in Australia has an anchor man (Simon Reeves) who claims that his whistle can make horses go to the bathroom.

So they send a field reporter out to a local stable with a portable TV and speaker, Simon starts whistling and after a few seconds the horses tail goes up, and it craps (as if on command).

The Onion News Network Premiers January 21

IFC is set to debut the Onion News Network (ONN) on January 21, 2011. Check your cable listings to see if you get the channel.

In this promo, Brook Alvarez and Tucker Hope talk about how nobody else should get into the news business, because they will be crushed. And about all of the awards that they've one (like 2nd place out of 3 competitors in a touch-screen news contest).

Are you going to be watching the show?

Darko Milicic Jump Ball Blooper

In this NBA match up between the Minnesota Timberwolves and the Washington Wizards, Darko Milicic screws up during a jump ball at the foul line and accidentally slaps the basketball into his opponent's hoop, scoring 2 points for the other team.

Toowoomba Flood in Brisbane Australia washes away a parking lot full of Cars

Recently all of the rain and flooding that has hit Australia caused some rivers to overflow their banks and wash away about twenty cars from the car park (Parking Lot for the Americans out there).

This amazing video was shot by an office worker from an upper level conference room at work. The East Creek near Chalk Lane just swelled over its banks reaching a critical flood stage. One guy got outside to fiddle with his range rover SUV's tires and just barely managed to drive his truck out of danger. However, over a dozen owners of small cars had their vehicles disappear in a gush of murky river water.

It's truly an amazing weather video that has been getting a lot play in newsrooms around the world.

Cars Slide and Crash Down an Icy Road

As the blizzard of 2011 hits the East Coast hard this week with over a foot of snow, I thought it would be interesting to look at this montage that CNN put together of cars and trucks sliding out of control crashing into each other outside of Spokane, Washington during 2010.

This winter will definitely be one to remember and hopefully, drivers take it easy and don't go out in the inclement weather unless they really need to. It's best if you have 2 wheel drive vehicle to stay home... Leave the roads to the snow plows and people with 4 wheel drive trucks and SUV's.

Atlanta Car Catches On Fire During Snow Storm

Atlanta's NBC affiliate was doing a live shot in town when a BMW driver spins out and crashes and then the car catches on fire. The driver lost traction on windy hill road and spun his tires so much that the car caught on fire. The TV crew talked the driver into getting out of the car and then they called 911 to get the fire department there.

Now the driver will have to call up his automobile insurance company and file a claim.

Qwest Field Large Beer Scam

If you're going to watch the Seattle Seahawks at Qwest Field, I'd recommend that you only buy small beers, rather than the large beers.

It turns out that the shorter cup actually holds just as much beer as the taller "large-cup". So save yourself $1.25 per drink and only order the small drinks. I'm surprised the vendors have the audacity to jerk their customers off like that.

At the Rose Bowl Parade, KTLA reporter wants nuts on her face

Watching the rose bowl parade is one of my favorite activities every January 1. Remarkably, every exterior component of every float has to be a flower or plant based. It takes volunteers weeks to construct the float.

Some KTLA anchor lady who was moderating the parade, must not have a dirty mind, because after seeing a float which had been decorated with nuts, she said, "I would like to have nuts on my face." That comment had to have every teenager in greater Southern California laughing their butts off.

Could she really be that naive?

Ted Williams - The Panhandler with the Golden Voice

Here's footage of Ted Williams the pan handler from Columbus, Ohio who hit the local news stations with his amazing radio voice. After the networks caught hold of his story, he managed to land multiple jobs of voice-over work. Including sports teams (Cleveland Cavaliers and Kraft Macaroni and Cheese).

I must admit that when I first saw this clip on WGN, I thought that the man had to be lip-syncing. The voice just does not match his body---It's hard to believe that he was working the streets doing cheesy radio station catch phrases in order to earn some money.

Since this time, Ted got cleaned up and got to do the TV circuit in New York and visit his 90 year old mother.

NFL on Fox team goes through airport security

This funny clip shows that having a Super Bowl Ring separates some of the Fox NFL reporting crew from the rest. Folks like Terry Bradshaw and Jimmy Johnson breeze through the security check points with all sorts of perks, while the other cast members have to undergo a more thorough search from the airport's friendly TSA security staff.

Reporter Lidia Camon knocks down camera man during a sled ride

Spanish Language reporter Lidia Camon is reporting on the snow and sledding conditions during a holiday winter storm, and then she gets onto a sled with a kid.

What Lidia didn't notice was that the microphone cord got caught between her leg and the toboggan causing her to yank down the camera man who falls as the sled goes down the snowy slope.

Las noticias cuatro de medio dia, el dia 27/12/2010