Leon's Boss Plays Him Like A Punk

Sure. The law states "any goof during a news broadcast must and will be posted to the internet." And it's not like the combination of the "Deadly Crash" chyron against Leon's oblivious suit-straightening and rapid-fire Specs Howard School of Broadcasting Professional Vocal Exercise, leading into a cutaway in which his fellow announcer's play him off Keyboard Cat-style with the damnation of faint praise ("we found out Leon can count, but we always knew we were assholes") is certainly worthy of the Internet's copious amounts of free time and careless attention (I DON'T CARE WHAT IT IS, JUST PUT IT IN MY EYES).

But did the news station really have to PUT THE CLIP ON-LINE THEMSELVES? You can't fire Leon, he quits. (Via BuzzFeed.)

Posted by Gabe at 3:15 PM in Bloopers, Local News
Tags: Goofs

17 Comments

Leon just thought they were throwing to him with the question, "How people died in the horrific crash today?'

Posted by: Mr. Gunderson at 07/13/09 3:25 PM | Reply
Score = 5

Leon is actually the consummate professional! Instead of yelling at the cameraman he followed the 'don't embarrass the station and be a dick to the cameraman cos you think the camera is off but its on, dummy' protocol. 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-Winner!

Posted by: Ben (waiting for the perfect GIF) at 07/13/09 3:29 PM | Reply
Score = 8

Play him off keyboard gorilla.

Posted by: Kenny Powers at 07/13/09 3:31 PM | Reply
Score = 5

He was counting the potential jobs he had lined up as head newscaster that disappeared.

Posted by: TalbainJ2: TalbainJ Harder at 07/13/09 3:36 PM | Reply
Score = 4

How long until news stations start hiring homeless people to set up this stunt for web traffic and page views? 12345678910 minutes? 12345678910 hours? 12345678910 days?!?! Inquiring (and jobless) minds want to know!

Posted by: Teh Cazbar at 07/13/09 3:46 PM | Reply
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That's my local news, right there. I claim it.

Posted by: Scrabio at 07/13/09 3:53 PM | Reply
Score = 3

Yeah, unfortunately it's mine too. Now it's my turn to be embarrassed and proud simultaneously.

Couldn't it have been their dumbass sports anchor, at least? (he really is a dumbass. I have a long story about him that includes him mistaking the word "syllabus" for "thesaurus" at a writer's workshop...again, long story).

Posted by: Roosevelt Franklin  in reply to Scrabio's comment at 07/13/09 6:01 PM | Reply
Score = 2

There are more people from West Michigan on here than I expected. I really wish something like this had happened to Miranda instead. Having met her personally, she is a smug, self-righteous, BITCH.

Posted by: Teh_Nightman  in reply to Scrabio's comment at 07/13/09 6:24 PM | Reply
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If only he had counted like this.

Posted by: Detroit Dutchgirl at 07/13/09 3:55 PM | Reply
Score = 8

or like THIS

Posted by: Becca  in reply to Detroit Dutchgirl's comment at 07/13/09 4:14 PM | Reply
Score = 8

Someday my children will return from school and tell me that teacher said "and to the" is not a number and then I will promptly begin homeschooling them.

Posted by: moonmaster  in reply to Becca's comment at 07/13/09 5:41 PM | Reply
Score = 10

Oh Michigan, you and your kid reporters. Wait, he is a kid reporter, right?

Posted by: unbiased at 07/13/09 4:04 PM | Reply
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Basically. But you know who wouldn't have messed up like that? Damon Weaver. Professionalism!

Posted by: Whyareyouyelling  in reply to unbiased's comment at 07/13/09 4:23 PM | Reply
Score = 11

"And you can count on me waiting for you in the parking lot."

Posted by: Gary Bang at 07/13/09 4:14 PM | Reply
Score = 7

That's the gospel right there!

Posted by: unbiased at 07/13/09 4:36 PM | Reply
Score = 0

It's all about raisin' those C-P-Ms

Posted by: cranB at 07/13/09 6:24 PM | Reply
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yaaaaaaaaaaaay! my boyfriend's college roomie, all grown up! he's a very suave guy. :D

Posted by: laura at 07/14/09 11:51 AM | Reply
Score = 1