A couple of tvnewsers got the SNL treatment last night. Larry King, "the suspenders are prescription, they hold in my organs," and James Carville, "When I play monopoly and I win the beauty contest people don't yell 'hey you can't win a beauty contest, cryptkeeper. You ugly.'"
A TVNewser reader alerted us that their fancy Verizon FiOS cable system is apparently reverting to 10 years ago when Natalie Allen and Lou Waters anchored "CNN Today."
On Saturday Night Live's "Update Thursday," Jason Sudeikis delivered his Glenn Beck impression in a sketch about the Obama Sunday blitz and why the president didn't appear on FOX. Here's a clipped video of the segment:
You might have seen a video floating around from yesterday's "Glenn Beck" of the host tossing a frog into boiling water. It was faked. Beck spent seven minutes today explaining how he went Criss Angel on everyone:
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Wolf Blitzer had a rough night on the "Jeopardy! Million Dollar Celebrity Invitational" Thursday. Maybe it was the pressure or the bright lights or maybe it was just a slow clicker, but Blitzer finished Double Jeopardy with negative $4,600. Andy Richter won $68,000 for St. Jude Children's Hospital. Highlights via Politico:
Kind of makes you wonder how Jack Cafferty would react if his clicker wasn't working fast enough. Richter put together a behind-the-scenes video of his experience and Blitzer makes some appearances.
At the end of CNBC's Power Lunch today, Sue Herera was reading a story about Chinese chickens vs. American chickens (don't ask, apparently that's an important business story). Anyway, Herera says, "American chicken feet tend to be larger and plumper than other chicken feet around the world, because Americans like more white meat chicken, so the feet are bred to be bigger and it costs more to buy them."
So Michelle Caruso Cabrera chimes in: "Because American chickens have bigger breasts, so they must have bigger feet to hold them up." Bill Griffith jumps in, "Well it's time to go. Look at the clock."
We don't have that video. But we do have the clip of a slip from New York's FOX 5 anchor Ernie Anastos also, oddly, involving chickens. He apparently meant to say, "Keep plucking that chicken." But, he didn't.
See it after the jump, and pay close attention to the look on the face of his co-anchor, former Fox News anchor, Dari Alexander...
Today on "American Morning," CNN weather anchor Rob Marciano made a comment to co-hosts John Roberts and Carol Costello that, perhaps, came off a little differently than he meant it. After bursting into laughter, Roberts actually stood up and just walked off.
Between about 3:55-4:00pmET, there must have been some kind of full moon in TV news land because things seemed to get more and more bizarre on our TVNewser monitors.
On Fox News, Shepard Smith reported on "Another fake bigfoot sighting, and this one is accused of being a pervert," which was followed by a report about the oldest dog passing away, a story about the Japanese Prime Minister's wife saying she rode a spaceship, and a conversation with the fill-in stage manager about the regular stage manager who's pregnant. Signing off Smith said, "Cavuto, what do you have today? Because around here, it went right off of the tracks and into the ravine."
At the same time on CNN, we saw Roland Martin wearing a cowboy hat.
And then Rick Sanchez making this face during the R&R (Rick & Roland) segment. Today's topic: the Texas secessionist movement:
Over on MSNBC, Chris Jansing, anchoring coverage of the LA fires, found out what it looks like when two little kids hijack a live national cable news broadcast:
At the end of CNBC's Power Lunch today, 
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