During a story on the death of Bee Gees member Robin Gibb, ABC News reporter Lucy Yang made a massive flub when she said that younger brother Andy died of "fart failure" more than two decades ago. Uh, say what now?
News bloopers are a dime a dozen and they just keep on coming. In this news report from CBS 2 New York, the news room cuts to a reporter live at the scene of a story that can only be "breaking news" at a local station. But what happens behind the reporter is what made it news blooper glory.
In the frantic world of financial news reporting, it's best to be ready for whatever comes your way. Be it a market crash, or a news camera in your face when you least expect it. Because that's what happened to Bloomberg's Sara Eisen who was caught on camera fixing her skirt during a pan through the newsroom.
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.)
'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?