Your topic for today is to discuss your most hated TV weatherman/woman, and why they rile you up so much. I care not that I'll have no idea who anyone from interstate who says anybody but Tim Bailey is talking about - irritating meteorologists are pretty much the same around the country. Post your submissions on your blog or in the comments.
Mine is Mike Larkham, who does his schtick on Channel 10 Melbourne's 5pm news. He should not, for legal reasons, be confused with Mark Larkham who's some kind of crappy racing car driver. Now, he does shonky live crosses from the most boring places imaginable (the beach? In summer? REVOLUTIONARY!) and tells gags that are so bad I presume they come straight out the "Skithouse" office in a box marked "even these are too unfunny for us".
I saw him in person once, delivering a live cross from the Melbourne Chocolate Expo (attention: no wonder I'm a fat bastard) and considered momentarily doing a run-through or yelling something out. I'd seen the time he tried to do a cross from outside the Casino and some kids jumped up in front of the camera and he had to restrain himself from smacking one of them in the head and dreamed of making a scene big enough to make it onto every "Aussie TV bloopers" show for the next 50 years. Then I realised that he was talking up the weather at 5:30, a good twenty minutes before it would go to air. They must do it on delay or something and his near backhander of a small child hadn't been enough to make them do a reshoot. The dream died.
Thank god for the return of "The Price is Right", because it gives me something other than this tosser to watch between Sport and the Simpsons.
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