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- Published November 30, 2007 - 86 Comments
Another Friday rolls around, and with it comes another comedy list. Every reporter’s worst nightmare is a major goof during a live show. Unfortunately for them (and fortunately for us) they are not uncommon. Here are 10 hilarious news goofs. Be sure to give us youtube links to your own favorites in the comments.
10. iPhone Grab
9. Skateboarding
8. It happens to the British too
7. Vasectomy
6. Live
This was shown live – obviously the reporter didn’t realize.
5. Ouch
4. Gas or Grill?
3. I can’t hear…
2. Top Cop
It is always nice to see reporters laughing at their own mistakes – especially classic is her comment “you can youtube me” – and we have!
1. The Mountain Climber
In such a politically correct climate, you have to wonder how long she kept her job after that slip up.
Bonus: Grapes
WTF is that noise?! Make sure you are not eating or drinking when you watch this.
November 30th, 2007 at 1:47 pm
November 30th, 2007 at 1:51 pm
haha, nice
November 30th, 2007 at 2:08 pm
It must be harder to climb a mountain when you’re gay.
November 30th, 2007 at 2:13 pm
#6 the weather reporter has tourrets syndrome, it was discussed on a different website that I saw
November 30th, 2007 at 2:19 pm
oh, i’ve got a goodie…
i still laugh. what is that noise??
and the return to the totally sterile studio where they have to try and act normal. ah, live t.v.
November 30th, 2007 at 2:33 pm
DiscHuker: hahahah I nearly wet myself – the moans!
November 30th, 2007 at 2:35 pm
I am surprised this is not on the list. Pretty famous. The reporter falling while stomping grapes… I feel bad for her but the noises are hard not to laugh about.
November 30th, 2007 at 2:37 pm
The grape stomping is so good I have added it as a bonus.
November 30th, 2007 at 2:45 pm
This is what Shepherd Smith was talking about when he said said he could relate.
November 30th, 2007 at 2:55 pm
Here’s the funniest video ever from my local newstation out of wonderful Portland, Oregon. I actually watched this live randomly and I still die laughing every time I watch it:
November 30th, 2007 at 3:00 pm
Oh man #1 was right here in Albuquerque. She is kind of a joke to everyone and she is a huge jerk in real life.
November 30th, 2007 at 3:06 pm
You should include the puking game-show host from Sweden. That shit is just disturbing. And I feel really sorry for the grapes woman. What a fall. Ouch.
November 30th, 2007 at 3:24 pm
“I like turtles”….hahahahaha…sounds like my brother cept he says “I like monkeys” gah…kids
November 30th, 2007 at 3:38 pm
I remember seeing some clips somewhere with ths weatherman that was all coked up and totally hilarious. Can’t remember where I saw ‘em.
November 30th, 2007 at 3:57 pm
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/338/
Here it is. This guy IS a news goof.
November 30th, 2007 at 4:09 pm
I think this one is pretty funny.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=zTrkYLqwfQA
The best part is that they do nothing to help her.
November 30th, 2007 at 4:18 pm
#5 is fake (humor site)
November 30th, 2007 at 4:43 pm
A long time ago, sometime back when Clinton was president, I was watching a weather newscast in Jacksonville, FL. There was a hurricane approaching (I don’t remember the name) and the weatherman referred to it as “Hurricane Hilary”. I wish I could find that – no one believes me!
November 30th, 2007 at 4:46 pm
Dana: Which weatherman was it? If Richard Nunn was working back then it would have been perfect! He’s such a dork. I’m surprised some of his stuff isn’t up here.
November 30th, 2007 at 4:48 pm
Lauren – It would have been sometime in 1995-96 when I lived there.
November 30th, 2007 at 4:54 pm
Oh man!…this is a good one…
November 30th, 2007 at 4:54 pm
I think the Tech TV Burp is top honors… search it on youtube search “tech tv burp” and its magnificent. Although it isnt news but it is live.
November 30th, 2007 at 4:56 pm
#6… not live. That’s one of those promos they show during prime time commercials. They’re pre-recorded. That’s what they were trying to do here.
November 30th, 2007 at 5:18 pm
Grape stomping was the best BY FAR!
November 30th, 2007 at 5:37 pm
This poor weatherman got diarrhea big time and had to stop in the middle of the forecast to run to the bathroom. He was struggling.
November 30th, 2007 at 5:39 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTLZxBHvSdk goes with the commnent above
November 30th, 2007 at 7:18 pm
why the hell did the guy grab the mike? did he actually think he was getting the iPhone?
November 30th, 2007 at 7:59 pm
I’ve seen most of these, they’re great
tierneyashton: I watched that video and it took me about 5 minutes to stop laughing xD
I like turtles
November 30th, 2007 at 8:19 pm
I’m surprised that this one wasn’t on the list:
November 30th, 2007 at 8:40 pm
Thank you Fox for bringing us such stimulating news, as usual.
What is the male newscaster’s name in #3? It almost sounds like HE says sh*t. Schlit? Schmidt?
Another funny one
November 30th, 2007 at 10:15 pm
Um…why would anyone with tourettes go into reporting?! These were all really funny, and I’m glad to see grapestomp made the bonus, its one of my favorites. =)
December 1st, 2007 at 12:44 am
This has to be one of my favorites. The first time I saw this, I died. Dude lost his job over it, too.
And between these, I had to stop some of them and re-watch them. God, I love news bloopers.
December 1st, 2007 at 1:47 am
These are great. Here’s another one I remember a couple months back:
December 1st, 2007 at 4:41 am
it’s funny that most of them were from Fox News
December 1st, 2007 at 4:43 am
breadpitt: haha I noticed that too
December 1st, 2007 at 7:58 am
damn… the bonus video (grapes) sure is a sadistically funny watch
December 1st, 2007 at 9:05 am
Mara: I’m pretty sure that’s from a comedy show, but its still funny.
December 1st, 2007 at 10:44 am
Best list ever…..Haha the grapes one
December 1st, 2007 at 12:13 pm
I guess this reporter has no sense of humor. I remember seeing this a while back “Pretty Funny”
December 1st, 2007 at 2:25 pm
i’m glad everyone loves the grapes lady. geez, i laugh everytime, without fail.
here is another beauty. talk about being uncomfortable in front of the camera.
rofl that he can’t figure out where to point.
and one more. this guy is trying to cover for the normal sports reporter who called in sick. the video clips are out of order, apparently his transcript is written in klingon and he has no damn clue to begin with. make sure you make it all the way to the basketball highlights. “and boom goes the dynamite”
December 1st, 2007 at 2:33 pm
“I like turtles” Ha Ha Ha!!! That was so funny. The news lady didn’t know how to respond to that.
December 1st, 2007 at 2:50 pm
why do i know about so many of these? is it bad to destroy something that is priceless and one of a kind? sometimes you just can’t control what you say.
December 1st, 2007 at 7:11 pm
The people that read the List Universe are pretty hip. So many of you probably have already seen this. This is my all time favorite. (Even better than the Grape lady) My daughter and I watched this 100 times and laughed harder each time.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=mYE4XSMTAmU
December 2nd, 2007 at 3:25 am
And that’s why Fox news Bites.
December 2nd, 2007 at 1:37 pm
Does anyone know what happened to the Grape lady? Oy.
December 2nd, 2007 at 2:59 pm
This is one terrific list! How about this clip? I am suprised that it was not included:
http://www.break.com/index/lightning-victim-news-tape-mess-up.html
December 3rd, 2007 at 4:23 am
I get a kick out of this one. You know he had a long night.
December 3rd, 2007 at 6:19 am
Anyone got a clip of that lady reporter who committed suicide live on TV?
December 3rd, 2007 at 7:11 am
heavybison: I tried to find that one for another list but couldn’t.
December 3rd, 2007 at 7:16 am
If Fox News didn’t have hilarious bloopers all the time, there would be no reason to watch it.
December 4th, 2007 at 6:08 am
Thank God for fox news in these dangerous times of the radical liberal media from the BBC, CNN, CBS,CBC and so and so forth….
Imagine that…a news network that doesn’t toe the liberal line…drives the moonbats crazy to be sure…and lookie…who is number one….
December 4th, 2007 at 6:57 am
I remember seeing the weatherman deliver his forecast for snow and cut back to him and the female reporter for the crosstalk at the end.
Woman says, “Oh is it going to snow this weekend? Its my best friends wedding.” Weatherman says, “Yes but it shouldnt be that bad only a few inches.” Woman says, “Well I got 8 inches on my honeymoon.” And the places goes wild with laughing cameramen in the background and the anchors in tears. My major was in TV news and I still have the blooper tape of our daily live shows, what a goldmine.
January 13th, 2008 at 7:39 am
Hey what about that Australian news presenter who bad-mouthed her husband to her co-worker, not realising that the commercials had cut and she was back on the air. The ratings greatly increased the next night
January 25th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
The tape of news reporter that committed suicide was destroyed a long time ago. Waaayyyy before youtube.
January 28th, 2008 at 12:57 am
This is the funniest new clip I’ve ever seen… Be careful who you interview. This woman is obviously on something. The best part is the way the reporter looses it and can not stop laughing…
February 6th, 2008 at 7:21 am
riley:
Hahahahaha that video is halarious!!!
February 9th, 2008 at 9:37 am
Great List! Love this website.
Here’s one, if You’s don’t know about it, maybe can go on the next list. Bird Poops in Reporter’s mouth.
February 14th, 2008 at 7:33 pm
Oh man, the video Riley contributed has been one of my favorites for a long time.
Here’s another one involving grapes that makes me laugh. Your guess is as good as mine as to what actually happened here.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=o0fuPkHTUtM
May 8th, 2008 at 3:36 am
I remember seeing a show of tv bloopers. One clip showed a reporter interviewing a yachting captain named “Gordon Johncock”. She stumbled over the name and they had to re-shoot. Unfortunately, “Gordon Johncock” is the sort of name that once you start getting it wrong, you keep getting it wrong.
Just as well Ian Fleming didn’t chose that name!
May 13th, 2008 at 5:21 am
ok, i have never posted before, and i know this is an old enough list, but i just discovered listverse. and i had to say that the link Blogball put in (#43) is the funniest out of all of them.. my sister and i were in tears watching this.. so funny.
great site by the way.
May 29th, 2008 at 11:26 am
Me too Juggz… me too.
May 30th, 2008 at 11:23 am
It can’t get any funnier than #1.
“But.. he’s GAY!”
June 17th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
ooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh the grape video!!!!!!!! i fervently pray to God that i am never in as much pain to merit making such a noise… embarassing and hilarious, you know that woman curses youtube lol!!!!!!!!!
July 27th, 2008 at 8:18 am
Arrrgh… I really want to watch these but I think I broke youtube.
And no, refreshing the page and re-starting my PC aren’t working for me.
July 31st, 2008 at 11:05 pm
awesome
August 1st, 2008 at 12:30 pm
oops
my above comment weirded out…
the link is awesome
and has to do with it
August 29th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
Mara,
that video you posted is fake
its from a Belgian (Flemish) comedy show called ‘in de gloria’
but still, its funny
September 8th, 2008 at 5:52 pm
I think this should be #1 on this list:
September 27th, 2008 at 7:55 am
Great list. This isn’t exactly a news goof, but the sports programme was broadcast live, and if you watch it until the end, you will understand.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=R4fBrZj1uXM
September 29th, 2008 at 10:13 am
the funniest one i ever saw was a pre-recorded “coming up next” peice. they were talking about a senator who had been diagnosed with cancer, so they show a clip of him, but in the background of the clip everyone was laughing. so it looked like “bad news for … his cancer has returned” “Hahahaha!”
October 6th, 2008 at 4:49 am
But this one’s even better!
October 6th, 2008 at 4:51 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEhKZNQlJrY This was supposed to go woth the above comment
October 12th, 2008 at 11:18 am
A newsreader sees the funny side when reporting of an unpleasant injury during the hourly news report on BBC Radio 2:
October 16th, 2008 at 6:43 am
The clip with the guys striding through with the harmonicas was just so out-the-wall, I died laughing. That reporter had no sense of humor… made it all the more funny.
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:42 pm
Run by farting http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mWkHvR4sPc
November 9th, 2008 at 3:14 am
These are great! I just spent an entire hour going through youtube watching a lot of goofs. So funny. If I were any type of reporter something horribly embarrassing would most certainly happen to me.
November 18th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
number six is our local news guy…i live in upstate new york and there was all this uproar about it. the guy now does commercials for a carpet cleaner…LOL!
November 26th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
My sister and I were watching soaps one afternoon in 1982 or ‘83 when Peter Jennings came for one of those ABC News Breaks. As he was reading his copy he flubbed a line. He put his head on the desk and said “I fucked up, I’m sorry.” He must not have realized he was live. Then there was a quick cut to a commercial.
Whenever I saw Peter from moment on I would think of that. We mention this to each other once in a while and wonder if anybody else remembers it.
November 29th, 2008 at 10:56 pm
Here’s the link for the grape stomping. It wasn’t working for me above.
December 11th, 2008 at 11:06 pm
The O’Reilly “…we’ll do it live!!” was great as well.
Come on, this has to be top 5. I’ve never seen someone explode so quickly.
December 11th, 2008 at 11:08 pm
Although not technically live, sorry I just read that.
December 17th, 2008 at 6:06 pm
Hahahahaha I cant stop laughing!! It was good!!
February 17th, 2009 at 6:47 pm
haha that grape lady! my friend showed me that a few weeks ago and i thought i was going to die. that is seriously the weirdest noise ive ever heard come out of a human.
July 28th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
I just loooooooooooooove this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JdsKMuk5qY&feature=related
When i first saw it, i watched it over and over again, couldn’t stop laughing! Just so great!!
Also, thanks for adding the grape link again because it wasn’t working for me either.
October 22nd, 2009 at 1:50 am
I am actually from the broadcast zone (Albuquerque, New Mexico) that number one was from, and I actually remember her saying that, and looking at my mom and laughing my ass off at that.