The guy says “People from Jennifer Lopez’s neighborhood, the Bronx, are more likely to give her a (Something negative) than a blow job…uh block party…I promise that will never happen again, that’s the news.”
That something negative was a “Curb job”. Which makes the mistake all the more understandable.
The “something negative” is “curb job.”
Alternate link to the clip, for those of you having trouble with the other one.
While it wasn’t live television, didn’t CNN once have the goatsec picture featured on their website?
Supposedly, all these news sites were linking to this photo connected to a newstory, but they didn’t upload it to their own site-merely linked to the owner’s site. And he got pissed, and changed the link so that it loaded goatsec?
On a local news program at “tax time,” as they do every year, they have a reporter at the local main post office showing the last-minute filers.
Local anchor says, "We now go to [on-site guy] for the latest at the post office.
Next scene is [on-site guy], who just stands there unaware that the camera is broadcasting, taps on his earpiece, then loudly exclaims “Shit!” The cut back to the anchor then.
Oddly, that correspondent didn’t work at the station after that.
Another thing that was broadcast, but I didn’t see, was the night a boxer knocked Howard Cosell’s hairpiece askew.
Scott LeDoux had just been robbed of a decision, and he was telling Cosell that if he had any integrity, he would be defending him (LeDoux). Then, a scuffle broke out between LeDoux and the person who had been declared winner, and I think the other guy bumped Cosell somehow that messed up his “hair.”
LeDoux says he still has a copy of it and likes to show it every once in a while.
News Anchorwoman Jean Jackson of Channel 5 in St Louis did the lead-in to her news broadcast something like this:
“Good evening this is the NewsChannel 5 evening report, I’m Kay Quinn–no, I mean I’m Jean Jackson”:smack:
I guess someone put the wrong name in the TelePrompTer
Many, many years ago (70s or 80s), my mom and I were watching WTTG/Washington DC. The news update comes on, and the female anchor is sitting in front of the camera, applying powder to her face.
Disembodied voice: “Psssst! We’re on the air!”
Newscaster: “No, we’re not.”
DV: “Yes, we are!”
NC: “NO, we are NOT.”
DV: “I’m serious! Everyone is watching!”
NC: “We had better NOT be on the air, or else I’ll -”
And it cut to commercial. My mom and I could barely breathe we were laughing so hard.
WCVB-TV Boston learned the hard way that if they insist on doing live reports from the Red Sox locker room, they should at least avoid setting up their camera at the entrance to the showers. In the middle of interviewing a player sitting on bench, the door behind him opened and there was Mr. Happy on live TV.
Late at night when the regular broadcasts have finished, NHK, Japan’s public network, often runs live feeds from outdoor cameras scattered around Tokyo. On one occasion, some guy who apparently had a portable TV with him to check which camera they were using, gave their camera in Shibuya square a full frontal flash which went out live across the country.
Bob Costas used to do PBP for the old St. Louis Spirits in the ABA. They had just given up a large 4th quarter lead, and were playing their first game since. In the pregame, Costas says to his partner, “So how do you think the Spirits will react to last night’s blow job?”
I personally saw this. Local two-anchor news show. Just before a break, the first anchor says. “When we return, firefighters battle time and the elephants!” Then she gets this very strange look on her face as she waits for the cut away to the commercial, as if she’s mentally replaying what she just said. The other anchor just turned and gaped at her. The very best part is it took at least 10 seconds to actually cut to the commercial.
And don’t even get me started on the “unknown grunion” incident I once saw.
I’m surprised no one has mentioned Norm Macdonald’s gaffe on SNL. During a weekend update broadcast he dropped the “F” bomb.
One I have on tape: Thalia Assuras and Mark Mullen (I think) on ABC’s “World News Now” with the then hard-to-find X-Mas toy: “Tickle Me Elmo” As they are killing time at the end of the segment talking about how difficult it is to find one of the dolls, the one sitting on the desk keeps laughing and vibrating. Finally to try and quiet it, one of them presses Elmo face down on the desk. It continues to laugh and vibrate, and from the camera angle it looked like Elmo was humping away in the missionary position. Both anchors look embarassed, then Mullen says, “I didn’t know Elmo did that.” Everyone on the set errupts in laughter, and they fade out with both anchors doubled over in their chairs having lost it.
One I wish I had: A producer, but not a regular on-camera anchor or reporter, for WAAY-TV doing an hourly news update. She stutters and stammers her way through it, tripping over words right and left. Finally as it’s over, and they fade to black before going to a commercial, you hear her yell, “OH GOD!” just before they cut the mike.
DarkWriter I saw that same thing on WTTG. I think she actually said “If we’re on, I’ll kill you”
Then they cut away to the WTTG logo for a few seconds, went back to the newsroom and her chair was empty. That anchor left DC shortly afterwards.
I always ask anyone who grew up in the DC area if they ever saw that, at last!
A freind of mine saw Jack Cafferty (at the time a local NBC newscaster) give a commencement address in which he recounted a blooper of his own.
Cafferty did a 5:00 PM local newscast (Live at Five, I think it was called) which preceeded the 6:00 PM news with Sue Simmons and Chuck Scarborough. His last line of every broadcast was, “And stay tuned for Chuck and Sue coming up next.”
In a classic spoonerism, one day he said, “And stay tuned for Suck and Chew, coming up next.”
The Newlywed Game was aired live?
BTW: she really said “ass", not "butt.”
In '84 or '85 the local newspaper had a classified ad that proclaimed “F@¢k your way to the top!” Some goofball was having fun with a legitimate add and subsituted the “F” word for “Work.”
By the end of the day, there was not a single newpaper in any rack. Everybody wanted this piece of “history.”
The person who placed the ad was, understandably, unhappy–and ended up suing the paper, in which she did get some settlement.
Not so much a blooper but a joke
Apparently a weatherman on a local network (dunno which - I saw a tape of it) forgot what day it was (april 1) as he went about weather report and was watching a loop of himself off camera with the normal national map.
What he did not know was that someone in the control booth had switched the national map with a big picture of a sumo wrestler laid out on his back from a Japanese ad.
What topped it was the weatherman had one of those electronic markers you see Madden use in football and proceeded to mark up the sumo wrestler…topping it we a big sweeping arrow that was supposed to be a front moving into the fat guys diaper.
You could hear the crew holding it in but when that happened everyone started screaming laughter. The guy was oblivious until someone switched him to live feed and they cut him to commercial right at “Oh sh-”
Not really a blooper, but a live-news mishap.
Female anchor behind news desk announces they’ll be going to a “live on the spot” reporter.
Cut to guy standing on steps of city hall. (Lord only knows why he had to be live on the spot, since the meeting he’s talking about happened several hours before, and city hall is now closed. Gotta justify that satellite-truck budget, don’tcha know.)
Anyway, he’s standing there with city hall in the background, plus the usual contingent of lookie-loos several yards behind him looking over his shoulder at the camera.
He begins to deliver his report.
After a few seconds, they cut to file footage, but he continues the live commentary on the soundtrack. (As opposed to just a live intro and then taped voice-over.)
After a few more seconds, we briefly hear whap WHAP whap WHAP of fast-approaching footsteps underneath the guy’s voice, and then the commentary is interrupted with a loud THUD/“grunt.” Silence, while the video footage continues on screen.
After a couple of seconds, cut back to female anchor, looking quite startled. “Uh, we’ll be, uh, we’ll get the rest of that report later in the newscast.” And she continues on to something else.
I remember this specifically, because right before beginning this story, she had been talking about a plane crash, and I was struck by the contrast in her demeanor. One moment, she’s glibly talking about twisted metal and many burned corpses without batting an eye. Then the real world pops her bubble, and you can see her thinking, “Oh shit, some yahoo just clobbered our reporter on the air.”
Not funny, exactly, but interesting.
A couple of years ago, a Brisbane Newsreader got into a bit of trouble over some comments she made about her husband, a well known doctor here, when she thought that they had cut to a commercial. She said something like “And this arsehole of a husband of mine wants to go skiing, and I just want to go to Europe…” They then went to a commercial, and she apologised the next night. She still is on air today.
What made it worse, was that her previous co-anchor, had recently been fired. He was doing an intro to a story which finished with the phrase “and was left hanging”. As the story was played, his mike was still open, and he was heard to comment “by his testicles.”.
I think it was a little unfair that he was chopped for his minor joke, while she was let off for airing her petty squabble with her husband over where they would be holidaying. They were both equally innocent mistakes.
- Bubba.
A couple of years ago, a Brisbane Newsreader got into a bit of trouble over some comments she made about her husband, a well known doctor here, when she thought that they had cut to a commercial. She said something like “And this arsehole of a husband of mine wants to go skiing, and I just want to go to Europe…” They then went to a commercial, and she apologised the next night. She still is on air today.
What made it worse, was that her previous co-anchor, had recently been fired. He was doing an intro to a story which finished with the phrase “and was left hanging”. As the story was played, his mike was still open, and he was heard to comment “by his testicles.”.
I think it was a little unfair that he was chopped for his minor joke, while she was let off for airing her petty squabble with her husband over where they would be holidaying. They were both equally innocent mistakes.
Another one was when Mike Willesee (A highly respected Australian Journalist) was covering for another presenter on “A Current Affair”. Willesee was pissed as a fart, and giggled his way through the show. The next night, on a rival channel’s current affairs show, Derryn Hinch opened with “Good Evening, I’m Derryn Hinch, and I’m sober.”
- Bubba.