In honor of St. Patrick's Day week, this is a list of the greatest drunks to ever interrupt a news cast. From men trying to stuff a dollar down a reporter's shirt to women passing by hitting them with their purses, these are the craziest, funniest and most insane drunk people ever to be part of the news.
This is awesome, and one of the many reasons Fox News isn't exactly news as much as it is just "entertainment."
After what is probably thousands of interruptions by drunk people at St. Patty's Day parades, this local news station just gave up and let the drunkest, most coherent guy they could possibly find do the news.
He may not be professional, but his random yelling and observations make a more amusing report than any actual reporter ever has. Also, it's a more authentic experience of St. Patty's Day that way, which really makes this news report a "win".
This is it. This is what they need to do at these things from now on.
Drunk Guy Makes Faces, Uses Family Guy Rule of Repetition = Funny
If there's anything that Family Guy has taught us, it's that if you repeat something enough times, even if it sucks, it's eventually becomes at least kind of funny.
In this video, this guy milks that concept dry.
Doing what any of us would do behind a news reporter who we think can't see us, the guy made the same stupid face about seven times behind the reporter. Ostensibly his friends were watching the newscast somewhere on one of the TV's in the bar and kept telling him it was funny.
The great part is that after about four times this drunk guy's friend actually tries to help him save a little face by pulling him out, but not wanting to humiliate him gets to that point we all get to eventually when it comes to drunk friends of ours being jackasses: "Eeeh, I tried. Let him make an ass of himself, he won't remember it anyway."
(Un)Fortunately for this guy, he will live in internet infamy forever.
Reporter Adam Landau just wants to do his job; a quick little piece about a new noise ordinance law in a neighborhood that obviously isn't going to observe this law.
Unfortunately for him and his crew, setting up a camera around a bar is like setting up a bug zapper at a summer evening BBQ, only the bugs don't die, they talk to you.
In this case, the bug wandered out of the bar and expressed her interest in sharing the guy's microphone so much that the guy had to push her off of him, which looks like a bit much until you see the woman and notice the next two things she does.
She not only hits him over the head with her purse, but wanders off and gets the last laugh "Yeah! Put that on the news!"
In what is probably one of the greatest moments in drunken news report history, "Lisa" is either recognized from her pre-reporting job or is simply being thanked by one of the locals for her hard work as a news correspondent... with some cold hard cash.
This video's short and sweet, but the part that really makes you admire this news reporter, is that she actually THANKS the guy for the money before she gives it back without skipping a beat of her report.
Now THAT'S professionalism.
We never get a look at this mystery man, but we salute his thoughtfulness to tip people who do a good job, no matter what their profession.
On Family Feud, if the question was âOn what Holiday would you find the most drunk people wandering the streets?â number one according to "the survey" would have to be St. Patrickâs Day, but still in the top 5 is New Year's Eve -- and thatâs where this clip comes from.
This video's so high on the list because really, the most things happen to this woman who's just trying to do her job. And it's hilarious.
In a little over a minute, not only does this female reporter gets interrupted in pretty much every way possible, but we, as an audience, are able to see three completely different kinds of drunks.
First up, we have the loving drunk, the one who's just ready to makeout and will do so (even unprovoked) to the misfortune of the nearest at least quasi-attractive female.
Next up, the drunkest young girl at the party, who for some reason thinks everyone is more drunk than she is. "I just wanna see what people will say" she'll explain the next morning, but we all know how sloppy she gets.
And finally, the "I didn't do enough bad stuff when I was little" drunk.
A dancing plethora of different breeds and species of drunks shows up in this video... which one are you?
This is What You Get When There's No One Else to Interview
First of all, this man is not mentally challenged, nor does he have any brain damage. This allows the video to be eventually hilarious.
Reporters rush to the scene of a house fire one day, and lucky for them, the only witness they can find to interview was one chubby man with well over a .08 BAC.
Although the interview lasts a good 2:40, there isn't a hell of a lot they get from him other than such gems like, ""I seen smoke flying through the friggin' damn wall"" and a warning of ""I'm gonna get R-racial here (without following it by anything about race).
The reporters try to lead him through the best they can, but putting an adequate sentence out for him at this moment is kind of like trying to hit a housefly with a dart.
The greatest thing about most of these drunks is how friendly they are.
Reporter Jamie Maggio is on assignment reporting from a sports bar about the Philadelphia Phillies' recent win, and she finds a man whose âÂÂlucky ballâ might be the key to their overall victory.
He says it was from a game against the âÂÂCorrorado RockiesâÂÂ, which makes you wonder if this man has a peculiar speech impediment; that is, until you notice the multiple empty beer bottles in front of him.
Proving that high-functioning drunks are better than normal people, this guy even helps the reporter send the audience back to the studio.
This drunk guy is so messed up (or homeless) that he's got what looks like either blood or an insane amount of dirt (but probably both) on his face as he staggers slowly in an extremely Romero-zombie-like way toward the reporter.
Seriously watch this. You'll expect a chunk to be missing out of the reporter's neck by the end, but miraculously, the zombie just keeps looking at the light and falling.
It's glorious.
Reporters really do need to carry around better security, though -- like chainsaws.
The Boogie Woogie Man is a wrestler and dear Lord is he a character. The character is basically what Larry the Cable Guy's grandfather looked like drunk. Now, this is a character the wrestler plays, but at the time of this newscast (as well as if you know anything about how Pro Wrestling actually works) this guy was absolutely piss drunk.
The news woman gets through her broadcast and just as she's about to send the story back to the news desk, The Boogie Woogie Man comes up in front of her and just lays one on her like a boss -- coming off like a random, insanely crazy "red neck" to most people in the audience, but as a huge in-joke if you watch wrestling.
Everyone remembers where they were when they found out Michael Jackson died -- I was taking a moonwalking class down at the Y'. We lubed up the floor with our tears afterwards.
So in a news report about Michael Jackson's death, an overzealous (and overdrinking) fan decides to weigh in on the tragedy by slurring the words "Michael Jackson" while playing ring-around-the-camera-man with the news reporter.
Watch the news reporter at 00:26, though, for his hand hitting the drunk guy's face right before they cut back to the news desk.
Here is a clip that comes from Eastern Europe a drunken haggard-looking gentleman with (hopefully) mud all over his face (either that or he's literally sh*tfaced drunk.)
Wait for it... wait for it... yes, there he is. He's basically ready to pass out, but is absolutely insistent that he needs to do something about the camera in front of him. His decision? Clearly, the most logical thing to do at that point: stand behind the person being interviewed while adding nothing to it and swaying back and forth like a Mortal Kombat character you've already beat and haven't killed yet.
Hey, you'd drunk as much as possible too if you lived in a place where the weather only comes in the options of depressing, cold and even more depressing.
While this woman tries to go on about the horrors of war, a drunken wanderer has some news of his own.
And the stern look on his face means that we all need to hear what it is.
See, he has just discovered that the best country in all of history is none other than jolly old England, and he wants everybody to know it. He makes his point, and wanders on to spread his message of superiority to everyone he can, like the Johnny Appleseed of nationalism.
So a woman gets arrested for driving drunk and a news crew has the brilliant idea of asking for her side of the story (even though a breathalizer really should say it all.)
What this woman does in this interview is completely void any chance she had of pleading "not guilty" to the DUI.
Not only does this woman take about 30 seconds to say about two sentences, but she has a hard time, a really hard time, finding the word "gas pedal"; which is ironic because the reason she got pulled over is because she slammed into the back of a bus by confusing the gas pedal for the break.
There's a long history of drunk weathermen in local news, I mean there's this 1987 KPNX reporter who was out on a Friday night and forgot he had to work, then had to come in to the studio drunk. Then there was the time in which weatherman Jim Kosek had a hard time keeping it together (you only notice starting at 00:36 when he starts telling you about how he's "in" for a "roadie") and even yells like a cowboy offscreen while reporting.
But of course, when it comes to News FAILs, nobody does it better than Fox News. Embedded here to the left, a Fox News weatherman decides to create one of the most excruciatingly awkward, long and drunken moments in News history when he spends about 2 minutes saying something he could have done in 45 seconds.
He just keeps going and going... he seriously doesn't know when to stop. And when it ends you get almost a runner's high because you're so happy about it being over.
It's one of the most cringeworthy things I have ever seen. And I spend a lot of time on the internet.
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Top 14 Drunk People Interrupting the News at 7/20/2011 2:05 PM