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Squatch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-21-05 12:18 PM
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Fox meteorologist has a lapse into Tourrete's...
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progressiveBadger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-21-05 12:20 PM
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1. Hillarious!
Did they get fined by the FCC? :)
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revolve Donating Member (255 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-21-05 12:23 PM
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5. Nah, that has to be a taped pretease
they were probably just taping a tease and he messed up and then an employee sent the tape in, I know this has happened many a time at the station I work at.
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Liberal In Texas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-21-05 12:33 PM
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11. I agree, it's an outtake someone saved.
Must have seen hundreds, if not thousands, of them in my TV years, but no one hardly ever saved them...just rewind the tape and do it again. Too much trouble to go saving it, and if you weren't very careful, it could end up on the air.
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aden_nak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-21-05 12:22 PM
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2. Okay, that is fuckin' badass.
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mslux Donating Member (141 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-21-05 12:22 PM
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3. Sorry, I didn't see the clip but
I suspect those with Tourettes won't appreciate your post. I know I don't.
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aden_nak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-21-05 12:22 PM
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4. No, he REALLY does seem to have a fit of Tourettes.
Edited on Fri Jan-21-05 12:23 PM by aden_nak
If not, he swears VERY oddly. And if one has Tourettes, that alone is not something to make fun of. But to take a job where you appear on LIVE TELEVISION. . . eh. . .
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jayfish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-21-05 12:28 PM
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9. Sounded Like He Screwed Up His Line...
and the out-take was edited into the clip.

Jay
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MadHound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-21-05 12:30 PM
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10. As a former DJ, I know exactly what he's doing.
And it is hilarious none the less. Here's what went down. His blurb is timed, he has his script down to the last nanosecond. He worked hard on this. He goes on air, and makes a minor error midway through the blurb, and starts beating himself up on the inside. His concentration slips bad, and while trying to catch up to the clock, he fumbles some more words, gets really pissed at himself, and vents, somewhat unintellibly. Happens all the time in radio and television.

If you want some really hilarious outtakes, go dig the tape out of the dumpster behind any radio or TV station. They goof up all the time while taping ads, promos and PSAs, and since they no the tape will be trashed anyhow, they let loose with some really entertaining lines. I've done that myself, and one time the result was so funny, it went on the air as a station promo.

Poor guy, I know exactly where he's at, though it is funny none the less.
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Squatch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-21-05 12:23 PM
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6. If that's not Tourrete's, I don't know what is.
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Modem Butterfly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-21-05 12:24 PM
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7. Oh lighten up Francis
I have lupus, but I can still laugh when someone makes a Werewolf joke.


A-HA-HA-HA-HA!
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jayfish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-21-05 12:26 PM
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8. Oops...
looks like they edited the wrong clip into their little promo. Hurry file a complaint with the FCC before Michael Powell leaves.

Jay

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LizW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-21-05 12:33 PM
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12. It's intentional, sort of
They film those promos ahead of time, and he flubbed the take. He was supposed to do his bit and say "...just ahead on Fox News at four." Instead he said "Fox News at ten...fuck you mother...FOUR! SHIT!!!"

Still pretty funny.

My favorite scene of a newscaster going nuts in in the movie "Bruce Almighty" when Jim Carrey uses his powers to make his newscaster rival go berserk on the air. I don't know the name of the actor who plays the newscaster, but he about makes me pee in my pants every time I see it.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-21-05 12:36 PM
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13. Too damned funny
Hahaha
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