[jocon307]

Oh my goodness, are these real? Too, too funny!

The first one reminds me of Chuck Scarborough, the long time NY news anchor.

One night they had a story, it was really quite tragic, some very young man had died, I forget how he died, but I think he was the son of a prominent person and that’s why it was on the news.

So they tell the story of the event(s) that lead to the death and Scarborough sums up by saying in a flat, monotone voice “...and later, he died.”

Hubby and I were like: way to show sympathy Chuck!

[yarddog]

One of the local TV stations played a segment, probably supplied by their network, saying that mammograms may not be as important as thought.

That was followed by the two news readers presenting a spiel about how good that segment was and how they were starting a program to remind women to get mammograms.

It was funny because they had no idea what the video they had just played, really said.

[Oatka]

One night they had a story, it was really quite tragic, some very young man had died, I forget how he died, but I think he was the son of a prominent person and that’s why it was on the news.
So they tell the story of the event(s) that lead to the death and Scarborough sums up by saying in a flat, monotone voice “...and later, he died.”

In the old days I was a typesetter on a country weekly. They had a story about some mixed up captions in another paper. An old ruin of a barn burned down the same day a prominent dowager died. The caption under her photo said "The old eyesore is gone at last."