Craig Melvin has not had the easiest week (after nearly being attacked by a strange man on the set yesterday), so he needed a good laugh. And today he got that much-needed chuckle on Today!
What made the anchor laugh? A story about a pigeon that was given oxygen after suffering from smoke inhalation. He could not stop giggling as he watched the video.
The story was not that funny, but his laugh is. Hopefully, he will do more of it during the NBC morning news show.
Reporters have faced some scary situations when they have gone live. And KTLA’s Rachel Menitoff went through a horror scenario yesterday.
What happened? While reporting about our heatwave from Sherman Oaks, a massive flying cockroach landed on her exposed chest and neck before flying onto her mic.
While almost everyone watching this video was freaking out, she kept her composure. How? Who knows? But she deserves the Emmy!
In case you are wondering whether or not she felt the bug, here is what she told the station’s website: “I knew it was on me,” she said. “But I knew if I took notice of it, I wouldn’t be able to continue on with the report. So I said to myself, just get through this moment and then kind of shake it off.”
Al Roker has been a role model for decades, so it makes sense that he would be a fan of Role Model.
So today, when the singer was on the Today show to perform his hit Sally, Ally couldn’t wait to join in on the fun. So the Weatherman got on stage with a glass of wine, and was dancing and singing with Tucker Harrington Pillsbury!
I love that even though Roker is 71, he can still act like a 17-year-old and fan girl with the right performer!!!
Ever since MSNBC launched in 1996, we have known it as that. However, for its 30th anniversary, it is getting a new name.
Later this year, it will go by MS NOW, My Source News Opinion World.
The news network explained, “As part of our move to a new media company, VERSANT — which also includes CNBC, Golf Channel, GolfNow, and SportsEngine — we’ll no longer be part of NBCUniversal and NBC News. This gives us the freedom to chart our own path forward, and we’re excited about where it’s headed.”
While they are excited for the rebranding, I think it sucks. But I am a purist. I still am not a fan of Syfy (Sci-Fi Channel), Freeform (ABC Family), and Paramount TV (Spike).
There is an Atlanta Falcons player named Michael Penix Jr. With a last name like that, you know that is going to cause problems for chyron operators in news departments. And that is exactly what happened to WTOC in Savannah.
I am not sure if that person writing his name into the chyron misheard the surname or if muscle memory caused him to do it, but the last name appeared as Penis on the screen.
So whatever way it happened, I am glad it did. Because seeing the word penis during a newscast will always be funny, that is, unless their last name is Penix, and they have heard that joke their whole lives.
