Posted on 04/12/2024 6:33:00 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
Imagine spending over forty years of your life in the news business, including anchoring ABC World News Tonight for twenty years, yet the thing you are best remembered for is being easily pranked on live TV. Such was the sad yet hilarious fate of Peter Jennings who in 1994 got pranked at the tail end of OJ Simpson's infamous slow speed White Bronco chase. If the absurd voice of the pranker didn't immediately set off alarm bells for any normal person then the final "BABA BOOEY!" would have revealed the caller as a Howard Stern fan. Poor Peter didn't have a clue until Al Michaels cut in to give Jennings a reality check. BABA BOEY!
PING!
I remember Jennings as a smarmy, condescending Canadian twit with and affected British accent.................
LOL!!!!!
Of course conservative Al Michaels had to set them straight and let them know Jennings had been had...
At the close of the 1982 L.A. Olympics, with the quenching of the Olympic Flame, actor Richard Basehart was reciting the ancient Greek Poet, Pindar’s “Ode to Fire”.
Peter Jennings was wired on coffee, wouldn’t shut up, so you couldn’t hear the stirring poem.
I think it was in the 3rd one "Shrek Forever After".
1984 Olympics
I actually saw this live at home and as soon as I heard the voice I thought oh no, this is gonna be good
Trolling in the 90s. To hold your composure at such a tense time is a true sign of an advanced troll.
I remember Michaels talking with Howard Stern about it, he said he was laughing the whole time, and couldn’t believe that Jennings was falling for it, and debated whether or not he should clue Jennings in on it.
A Canadian borne ‘journalist’ who never finished HS or went to college, yet rose to the top of American Journalism. It shows you just how much leftism and playing along with the DNC can help you.
I remember him in a khaki uniform reporting from Viet Nam.
Peter’s shtick was reporting from the field while wearing trenchcoats.
“Back when the Stern show was funny...”
Stern is funny? If being “obsessed the tittes” is humorous perhaps. He’s inane, lacks significance, insubstantial... sort of like those filthy mouthed naughty boys that you want to punch out... I never saw the draw in Imus either, the 3 stooges, Marx brothers W.C. fields, abbot ans Castello, Shock jocks... I dunno... I guess I just don’t get it.
"Some thoughts on those angry voters. Ask parents of any two-year-old and they can tell you about those temper tantrums: the stomping feet, the rolling eyes, the screaming. It’s clear that the anger controls the child, and not the other way around. It’s the job of the parent to teach the child to control the anger and channel it in a positive way . The voters had a temper tantrum last week and the nation can’t be run by an angry two-year-old."
My thoughts when I heard that: suck on it, 'Peter'.
“No lookie here!”
“It sho’ is the tenses!”
But have you ever seen Stan and Ollie move a piano?
I like Stan and Ollie for some reason and of course Keaton, Chaplin, Harold Lloyd.
I think I appreciate humorists with a sense of wit, throughout the ages. Twain, Will Rogers, Grizzard (at el).
Mere Shock jocks are annoyingly banal.
that was ‘84- i was at those closing ceremonies...
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