Early this morning, a 4.4 magnitude earthquake hit Los Angeles. While there was no major damage, everyone in LA certainly felt it, including the morning team at KTLA. Their reaction? Duck and cover.
It might have been a little too 6:45 on a Monday morning for KTLA's feature reporter Allie Mac Kay when part-time sorcerer Justin Willman decided to blow her mind with a very loud illusion, but her reaction was pure magic.
Getting a newsman to read aloud what at first blush appears to be an innocuous name, but in actuality is a dirty word, during a live broadcast, is the oldest trick in the book.
Fans of police chases were in for a treat last night when a freeway pursuit of a suspected drunk driver in a red Chevrolet Camaro ended with the car slamming into the sidewall and bursting into flames.
On Saturday, Gawker writer Louis Peitzman haphazardly insinuated that a tweet from KTLA newsreader Sam Rubin was a bad practical joke, but it turned out that he was actually hacked, according to Rubin. He sent this email to Louis on Saturday night:
World-renowned Kimberly Cole music video audition crasher Keith Apicary (born Nathan J. Barnatt) brought his signature autodidactic dance "manures" to KTLA Morning News.
The morning crew at KTLA Los Angeles aren't the first people to make the connection between the "shake weight" and the, uh, you-know-what. But they are willing to drag it out for four minutes. On a news show. [via Reddit]
After live-tweeting an attempted armed home invasion this morning, Paris Hilton wandered onto her mansion's balcony after a shower to unfurl her towel before the crowd of helicopters and paparazzi. Life returns to normal at the Fameball Barbie Dream House.
Best-looking woman in America Christina Hendricks went on an L.A. morning show and made a passing reference to taking a bath. Minutes later, the male host is still unable to form sentences, and admits he is picturing her naked.
Last week, we discovered Mel Gibson is truly a monster and LiLo checked into the slammer. With the amount of sloppy news coverage spewing out of Inside Edition and local news stations everywhere, The Soup is having a field day.
Countess LuAnn de Lesseps aural abomination, "Money Can't Buy You Class," continues to amuse. She performed the song on an LA morning show earlier this week. The station's interns laughed at her while she performed.
While filming a live news segment about road trips, this reporter for KTLA gets multiple parking tickets. Obviously, the claim of proper permits and the news crew, would not deter the cop. That's the LAPD, always hard at work.
Tonight, The Soup took on KTLA's morning show by airing footage of its detailed (and pun-filled) reporting of a stray chicken that made Good Day New York's coverage of the mystery buoy seem like a a Peabody candidate. Video, inside.
Perez Hilton (nee Toptastic, nee Mario Lavandeira) was to appear on KTLA's morning show yesterday, but his segment was canceled. KTLA said he showed up too early. Hilton called them liars. And today, Sam Rubin ripped him a new one.
Nothing gets us in the mood for a jam like a has-been pop icon arrested for domestic battery — a sentiment to which KTLA morning staffer Jessica Holmes stylishly related this morning. Barely finished with her report of Vanilla Ice's jailing in Florida on charges of kicking and hitting his wife, the bubbly entertainmentard summoned a trio of back-up "dancers" for an impromptu run through "Ice Ice Baby." Reaction in the newsroom was mixed, with a vigorous defense from seasoned veterans who recalled the time Walter Cronkite and a young Dan Rather punctuated revelations of Ike Turner's domestic abuse with a loosely harmonized performance of "You Should'a Treated Me Right." Skin-crawling video after the jump.
