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  1. sphynx says:

    wtf are YOU doing

  2. my pen is says:

    this site is gay

  3. Arthur Eld says:

    This is MY fail! Don’t you touch it!
    (YAY! :-D )

  4. aikiwaza says:

    Another one for Arthur! Now he can have his party AND be here for it.

  5. Blog Ninja (the new fail is finally here!!) says:

    Oops.

  6. hahah says:

    boats n ho’s

  7. TheCannyScot says:

    Oh, boy! That took some guts to apologize like that. On the other hand, throwing yourself on the mercy of the FCC may well reduce the fine. Good for her for owning up.

    I wonder why she said it – was it the clip, or something on set?

    • Brewski says:

      Regardless, it sheds some light on her true character. Glad I don’t have to work with her.

    • Cloral says:

      I don’t think it took guts. I think it took the station manager telling her, “You’re going to read this apology or you’re fired.”

    • mjfrombuffalo says:

      She and her co-anchor were taping promos for the 11pm news – at least, she thought they were taping (most of them are taped but once in a while they aren’t ready in time to run tape in the promo slot). This one was live and her co-anchor was supposed to be doing/saying something and wasn’t, and it was to him her expletive was directed.

  8. MRN says:

    I wonder where she works now?

  9. dylo says:

    i hate the fake way ppl always apoligize(spelling?) in situations like that.

  10. hi says:

    the ad right above this text field is telling me to stop paying for electricity.

  11. anoy says:

    fail boat

  12. Sluggo says:

    Too funny! I’ve always had a semi-soft spot for Sue Simmons – even less so now I know she DOES have a potty mouth, like the rest of us.

  13. neverfo1 says:

    Did she really say the f-word?

  14. Sally says:

    So what was the person doing that she said the F word in the first place? Was her co-anchor unzipping his pants or something?

  15. Job says:

    Wanting her fired, and knowing that she was a moron, he held up a cue card that said, “WTF are you doing?”

    She, of course, mindlessly read the question out loud, and now he has her old parking space.

  16. kolli says:

    You americans are crazy. In almost all other contries these kind of words (in the respective language) are said all the time. If this happens on a serious tv show (like the daily News) the guy who told it apologises by himself, but that’s it. Nobody cries because of a “f-word”.

    You seriously should lighten up some more.

  17. shad0w says:

    Well look at the reporter next to her in the first clip, what WAS he doing. I think he was texting and she was rip shit haha.

  18. technicolor says:

    I think it’s funny when I watch say Sopranos for example. They take out the cuss words but it’s fine to show some gangsters shooting the hell out of some pedestrian.

    Ahhh Logic.

    • Sluggo says:

      Censors are the craziest people. Ever hear them bleep out the “God” but leave in the “damn”?

      Now, which is the more “offensive” word?

      To quote George Carlin, “There are no ‘bad words.’ There are bad thoughts, bad intentions…and WORDS!”

      • Brewski says:

        And you can’t show a couple making love, but you can show them cutting each other into little pieces, or spraying each other with assualt-weapon fire. Great logic!

        • Eoz says:

          I find the latter much more tolerable to watch on TV.

          • WhoaNellie, Grand Supreme Imperial Sovereign Yotkenator and Occasional Ghost says:

            I find ladder watching on TV to be fascinating as well. I both concur and agree.
            Gooooing up!

      • munch says:

        Considering historical evidence, I submit that God is overwhelmingly more offensive and damaging to a youngster’s mind than Damn ever will be. Carlin’s later skits on the subject serve wonderfully to illustrate these points as well as any non-partisan historical primary source would.

        • WhoaNellie, Grand Supreme Imperial Sovereign Yotkenator and Occasional Ghost says:

          I’m sure God is impressed with your opinion :)

  19. Jim says:

    It was Sue Simmons (guessing no one here lives in the NY area). That’s only the latest of the wonderful fail she’s done over the years. She’s regularly sloshed on the 11 PM news, and once fell off her chair at the end of the 6 PM show. Sloshed then too.

    She’s really a good person, I used to work at NBC and she was just one of the nicest people (no really, not like fake nice where you just act nice for people that actually matter – I was a desktop tech and she was always polite).

    Here’s what happened – someone was adjusting a wire while she was doing the live feed and didn’t bother telling her, and it yanked her mike out of nowhere, so she was like holy shit, what’s going on?

    And yes, for the curious, she is still gainfully employed by the station, as she has been for the past…. thirty? years or so. Might be forty. I don’t recall exactly. She’s got a wiki page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sue_Simmons

    • Brewski says:

      Thanks for the inside scoop.
      If I ever came in to work sloshed, I would quickly be joining the ranks of the unemployed. How can she get away with that??

      • James says:

        Because she’s extremely popular. People LOVE Sue. Taking her off the air would cause a riot, or a tear in the fabric of space-time, or both, or maybe just a few pissed-off, sweaty bloggers would mash their keyboards with their sausage fingers for an hour or so over it, or maybe the apocalypse would start. I dunno.

    • Randy says:

      I’ve always been a fan of hers. She bloopered after watershed, so I’m sure she didn’t get in TOO much trouble. Good to know she’s genuinely nice, sorry to hear she has a drinking problem.

    • Drak says:

      Thank you! :)

  20. badkitty says:

    She’s still working for the TV station. Here’s a video of her Groundhog impression:
    http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Sue_Simmons_Does_Her_Groundhog_Imitation_New_York.html

  21. Mr AWESOME says:

    OLD! I saw this on TV when it actually happened like 6 months ago BECAUSE I AM AWESOME. I didn’t like record it and put it on the interwebs or anything BECAUSE I AM AWESOME. I did take the time to comment on this post though BECAUSE I AM AWESOME?

  22. Alex says:

    Over here in Argentina there are lots of fails like that…

  23. Mike Wilson says:

    I’d like to nominate this for the “A fail so great… it’s a win” category.

  24. Nick R. Bocker says:

    Is she related to Christian Bale?

  25. Brute says:

    I’d probably watch the news more often if it had this kind of language.

  26. Invading Iraq deserves an apology, not a harmless word.

    • WhoaNellie, Grand Supreme Imperial Sovereign Yotkenator and Occasional Ghost says:

      Well, things are different in your Thrirld World, I suspect.

  27. Pandemonium says:

    This is why it’s a good idea never to swear at all. It comes out at the flippin’ wrong time.

  28. WahWahWah says:

    Tourette’s Win

  29. Zach Sherman says:

    What city is this from?

    • Jill says:

      This happened a year ago – May 2008. This is from WNBC New York. Sue Simmons has been around forever (she’s in her sixties). She’s still around, too – I watch her every night!

  30. Christian says:

    My ears! MY EARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :: melts ::

  31. Tadder says:

    Hahaha that was very funny xD loool

  32. dalchri says:

    Now I really really want to know wtf he was doing to make her say “WTF are you doing?”

  33. Sarahfails says:

    Ahaha, This same thing happened two days ago at my school. They switched to another clip, and all you hear is DAMNIT!!!!!!
    We could hear mrs. spleen {the main director, well, teacher of all things media related} screaming from down the hallway.
    WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?
    HONESTLY!?

  34. SkroddyPup says:

    Wow! This was very funny! Thanks!

  35. carnivaldead says:

    The best news anchor ever

  36. ThyNameisMonkey says:

    *wanders aimlessly into a new place*
    haha! LOlolOLoL!!
    ….”WTEFF are you doing?!”…
    *wanders aimlessly out….*
    =)

  37. letmecomment says:

    at :10 it seems likes she asking the boat what hes doing

  38. kenshinflyer says:

    WTF did you do on air?

  39. Nicole says:

    Apology fail. That didn’t sound sincere at all.

  40. qj says:

    HAY GUISE WATS GOIN ON IN THIS THREAD?

    • tidbits says:

      Mainly debates about Iraq. What’s your opinion? I think they should federate with Iran to form Irate.

  41. Roadguy2 says:

    There has been one thing that confused me on the failblog comments, what is the failblog record for most comments on one pic or video?

  42. The Cat says:

    Kinda reminds me of another video I saw somewhere. There was a news reporter who calmly explained to the viewers that his fellow reporter had been murdered.

    Not quite like this case, but another example of news anchor Fail.

    Or Win, depending on how you look at it.

  43. xcelence says:

    Dude this is so old.

  44. Molson78 says:

    Other news anchor = staying awake FAIL

  45. soloden says:

    LOL! :D people commit mistake and I accept her apologies. :)

  46. Sa says:

    It’s SILLY. What she said was not a “MISTAKE.” In other words, she didn’t MEAN to say it. It was an ACCIDENT. There is a difference.

  47. LD0ne says:

    omg that was so funny i almost pissed myself i knew that lady got mad at chuck scarbrough off the air man that was great…

  48. railroadbridge says:

    I thought the “fail” was going to be what she said at the beginning: “At 11, paying more at the grocery store but getting less. We’ll tell you how to get the most.” Now I have to say, wtf?

  49. Al says:

    You can literally hear her mouth pop open in shock after she drops the bomb.

  50. sauer kraut says:

    Didn’t the SCOTUS just rule that the FCC could levy fines for explosive utterances?

    What’s the fine for her or her station?

    Is she suspended, fired, or promoted?

  51. Chad says:

    I wander what he was doing. haha

  52. Zero says:

    America SUCKS!
    Long live iraqi resistence :D

  53. Mae says:

    WNBC-NY should have fired Sue Simmons a LONG time ago! She’s been there so many, many years, that she has an attitude of entitlement. She screws up on camera a lot! And, when corrected by the co-anchor, just shrugs her shoulders and purses her lips as if it’s no big deal. Problem is…. reporting the news IS a big deal and a professional would not act the way she does. We stopped watching years ago because of her. I am completely surprised that she apologized at all. At least a million dollar per year salary and this is what we get.

  54. Meme says:

    We love our Sue Simmons here in NY. She’s been on the air for 30 years and even saying that won’t make her go anywhere. That’s an old clip too. She’s always flubbing her lines and stuff. It’s kinda why we watch.

  55. thank you, thank you, thank you! says:

    Holy shit! I haven’t laughed that hard in ages.

    Thanks to whoever posted this.

  56. rigsfifth@yahoo.com says:

    I bet she is in the job market!!

  57. FailVader says:

    WTF ARE YOU READING?

  58. dna_level_c says:

    Broadcaster’s Rule #1: Every microphone is live, always.

  59. TROLL says:

    LOLOLOLOLOLDL OA IM FRSIT I WIN YOUR MOM SMELLS LIKE PENIS.

  60. towp says:

    WTF that’s a rip. The gentle female side of the News

  61. AdamCO says:

    Thanks to those of you who added to this thread. Never have I had to waive through a thread of such volumes of utter nonsense to find the little nuggets that said who she was, where she worked, and why this occurred.

  62. samantha says:

    lol she must rlly HATE boats!

  63. LOL! This is effin funny. Cursing is not so bad. It sounds badly coming out of the mouths of babes, I agree, but there’s far worse crap going on in this country that can be apologized for.

    Such as: Iraq, Afganistan,lack of help in Darfur, ignoring Iran and Cuba, world wide hunger and poverty, racism, hedge funders, thieves, killers, and manipulative media which distorts nearly everthing. I can go on and on…you don’t want the full list, trust me.

  64. omgwtfbbq says:

    Look ma people dead in the news!

    Bawww, ma the televeision lady said the f-word!

  65. Devon says:

    the real fail is that she had to apologize…

  66. dagmar says:

    anybody that doesn’t like America or American tv or American families can shove it up there asses. NO one is asking you to come here, and if you are here no one is making you stay.

  67. greg says:

    that is funny as hell

  68. Tare-Tare says:

    HA HA! Win!

  69. Thomas Klaric says:

    No, WTF R U DOIN???!!!!!

  70. Sabot says:

    Fellow citizens of Failblogia, Ask not wat tha f*ck are you doing,
    but ask “WHO THA F*CK IS DOING U!!!!!”

    or you may ask, What the funk can do for you

    whichever one is relevant *inserts baconlube advert*

  71. eddyeddyd says:

    the ^%$# are you doing

  72. Lai-Lai says:

    Only a failure would appologise for swearing, but it takes a bigger failure to be such a pansy as to be offended by a word in the first place.

  73. Jesus Christ says:

    I forgive her, she said it because the man next to her was asleep on the job.

  74. Kyle says:

    I never thought that something from Anchorman would actually ever happen. This is a dream come true

  75. Jim Blair says:

    Youre like Christian FAIL!!!!!!!!!!

  76. Hanii Puppy says:

    That would have been awesome if she acted like it was deliberate.

  77. thephantombloggerstrikes says:

    What’s that sound? Oh, it’s hundreds of people pressing rewind on their
    TiVo.

  78. Booblsncats says:

    Why is it such a big deal anyway? Kids will hear it soon enough anyway, and if you’re offended so easily there’s something wrong with you.

  79. Long Rod von Hugendong says:

    Umm… uh… wowness. I had to invent a new word to describe that.

  80. shire_fanatic says:

    at least she apologised…most new anchors wont even do that if they screw up

  81. lord pim says:

    such mystery there. did someone ask her what SHE was doing first, and that was her retort? OR had she already reamed someone out and that was just the tale end,
    like “and the boomguy is picking his ass over here, and over there we got al roker eating yet another danish from the commissary…. and meanwhile…wtf are YOU doing.” or were they goofin’. I like to think they were goofing around.

  82. lord pim says:

    she was just upset that the failboat hadn’t docked yet. impatience is a bitch to control.

  83. DrowsyPoet says:

    I don’t think the issue has to do with offense or legalities as much as the destruction of the anchor facade. Their credibility relies on a particular pretense.

  84. Squirrely__Kitteh says:

    Sounded like that one episode of the simpsons when kent brockman said dat

  85. kasey says:

    wow…

  86. SiNT4X says:

    I’d like to be the service man to be the first to realize she’s still on the air… oh what a feeling that would be.

  87. kittykitty meow meow says:

    LOL this PAGE fails


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