09.28.2009 3:44 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“Saturday Night Live” kicked off its 35th season with Megan Fox as host — and the F-word.
From Tom Shales of The Washington Post:
Jenny Slate, one of two actors hired over the summer to join the repertory cast, was making her “SNL” debut in the sketch, called “Biker Chick Chat,” which aired in the last 20 minutes of the season premiere. Slate and Kristen Wiig played surly motorcycle babes who used the substitute words “frickin’ ” or “friggin’ ” in every sentence they spoke.
But when, at about 12:43 a.m., Slate was supposed to say to Wiig, “You stood up for yourself, and�

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09.17.2009 7:36 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
From The Associated Press:
Ernie Anastos of Fox affiliate WNYW was bantering with the weatherman Wednesday night when he cheerfully dropped an F-bomb on the air. What he likely intended to say was, “Keep plucking that chicken.”
Anastos didn’t appear to recognize the error, though co-anchor Dari Alexander’s eyes bugged out after he said it.
Just before the flub, Anastos told weatherman Nick Gregory, “It takes a tough man to make a tender forecast,” a play on an old chicken commercial.
Fox isn’t laughing, though. The vice president and general manager of WNYW, Lew Leone, said he’s “disappointed” in�

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07.17.2009 8:00 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Actually, the on-air marriage proposal is all we’ll be covering today.
A colleague just sent me a link to this video from KARK-TV, featuring a reporter he went to college with.
And, at 2:13, it’s quite possibly the longest local-news segment ever.

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04.02.2009 5:54 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Watch as a woman faints while being interviewed on a live morning newscast.

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02.13.2009 2:27 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
I know you couldn’t get enough of the kitten cam I posted a few weeks ago. So here’s a new one, brought to you by the good people at the Palm Beach Post. It’s a live feed from the Safe Harbor Animal Rescue and Clinic.

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02.05.2009 4:20 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
TV’s Katie Couric was a guest on “Live with Regis and Kelly” this week. And, as always, she had her Flip camera ready to capture the behind-the-scenes action.

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01.29.2009 3:08 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
If you were captivated by the Shiba Inu Puppy Cam a few months ago, you’ll probably be slightly less mesmerized by this kitty cam. Cats do a lot of laying around and looking unhappy, but we’ll watch it anyway. And Gail will probably watch with us.

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01.23.2009 12:26 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
From the Los Angeles Times‘ Dish Rag blog by Elizabeth Snead:
The inaugural balls went on all night long. And according to Gawker, “Good Morning America” host Diane Sawyer had a really, really good time that night.
Gawker intern Bette Bentley compiled this video of Diane Sawyer slurring her words, acting silly, sexy and mumbling things about the Jonas Brothers and showing off her boots.

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01.21.2009 6:24 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
No commentary. Just watch and enjoy.

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