News Bloopers

In one of the most stomach-churning videos we've seen in a long time, a random woman interrupts a news report by spitting on camera. But she doesn't just hock a loogie once. She does it six times and continues to do so even after learning she's being filmed. Classy!

WNBC New York anchorwoman Sue Simmons must have been at a baseball game over the weekend. Because just as the 11 o'clock news started on Monday, a live mic caught her saying "the ball took a bad hop and hit me in my breast." "Are we on?," wondered her long-suffering, er, longtime co-anchor Chuck Scarborough. As you can see in the clip below, they were.

We loved it when Bo, the Obama family's dog, disrupted an Argentinian newscast last month. But this clip of a dog interrupting a newscast on Global News in Toronto may be the greatest example of a canine video bomb yet.

As this awesomely funny video shows, being a television news anchor isn't just about reading from the teleprompter. It also requires you to keep your mind out of the gutter, which the majority of the talking heads in this supercut fail spectacularly to do. (Warning: NSFW for unintentional profanity.)

The "videobomb" is a prank of opportunity. And the fellow in the clip below seized a videobombing opportunity and made the most of it. And then kept on making the most of it.

To help celebrate Easter, Good Morning Sacramento reporter Alan Sanchez dressed up like the Easter Bunny and set off to entertain children. Some would say his wild gyrations in front of the kids would be more at home at a furry convention than a sacred holiday.

'Good Morning Arizona' co-host Kaley O'Kelley was conducting an on-air interview with radio personalities Johnjay and Rich on Monday when it sounded like she committed live TV's ultimate faux pas. Or did she?

Who doesn't love Bo, the Obama family's loveable First Dog? Ever since the Obama family were given the dog as a gift, Bo has been a reliable source of fun in the White House. And this time, it looks like he's pulled the old "video bomb" trick by darting through a filmed segment on the White House lawn.

You've seen news reporters follow people on the streets all the time. Committed to getting a scoop, this intrepid reporter follows a lawyer on the pavement despite his target's "no comment" stance. The reporter's focus should have also been on what's in front of him. Good thing for us the cameras were still rolling.

The news bloopers just keep on coming. During Fox News' early morning Super Tuesday wrap-up, the head news anchor went live to Washington correspondent Doug Luzader for an update on the election race. To quote the news anchor, it went like this: "Hello Doug... Hi Doug... uh... I, guess not..."

This TV reporter in New Zealand is not the latest victim of the dreaded on-air blooper, but it's the worst case of the "ums" and "uhs" that we've witnessed so far. Somebody needs a teleprompter and fast.

Once her live shot is over, Fox 29 reporter Joyce Evans tells the camera what she's really thinking at that moment. Even though it's a little NSFW, we'd probably be thinking it too if we had her job.

We're not sure why this foreign language reporter felt the need to set up his shot with one foot on a fairly busy road.  As you can see in the video below, he almost pays dearly for his odd and gratuitous body positioning.

We feel safe in calling Peter Davis a jerk. Not because we know him personally; we'd never heard of the Englewood, NJ resident before yesterday. But it's how we heard of him: using his mom's car to buy drugs in New York and not paying tolls on the George Washington Bridge. Now his mom's on the hook for $123,000 from 6,600 violations that Davis somehow successfully hid from her. This is why you

If you happen to be a newscaster who isn't so sure of the material you're supposed to read, one way of limiting mistakes is concentrating very hard on the Teleprompter. Kara Manelli of WUFT in Gainesville, Florida displays this technique to a T as she finishes a story about a student housing lottery. She's concentrating so hard, she doesn't notice the woman behind her awkwardly trying to hide from