Chris Berman loses his ****

#27
#27
BigPapaVol said:
exactly. we'll do our job so you can concentrate - on reading a frickin' teleprompter. how do you ever tune it all out so you can read aloud lines you've written?
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It's annoying as hell to have people moving around when you are on TV.
 
#28
#28
justingroves said:
It's annoying as hell to have people moving around when you are on TV.
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yes, it is. Between having to read a teleprompter and watching the camera guy for signals any slight changes in the norm can throw you way off.

To give some sort of comparison, it's like someone yelling during your golf swing.
 
#30
#30
volfanbill said:
yes, it is. Between having to read a teleprompter and watching the camera guy for signals any slight changes in the norm can throw you way off.

To give some sort of comparison, it's like someone yelling during your golf swing.
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VolinArizona said:
Plus, you generally have a director in your ear. It's actually quite difficult.
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I've only had to do it twice. But I believe I would have strangled someone with an electrical cord if they had messed me up.
 
#31
#31
Vercingetorix said:
Somebody help me find the clip of the Kasey Kasem rant about the dead dog dedication. If you're old enough to remember when the American Top 40 was a weekly institution and you haven't heard it, you need to.

Edit: found it on Youtube, although the original outtake is of course audio only. Strong language, of course.
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I was about to say the same thing. That was what first came to mind.
 
#32
#32
I got to do it a couple of times during school and then practiced it some while I worked at the TV station. I know this is going to sound crazy, but if you have to read and work the teleprompter at the same time, the teleprompter is tough to work all on it's own. Shoot, for that matter it's not exactly easy working the teleprompter for an anchor. Some of those looks you get if you go too slow or too fast are quite menacing.

And VIA is right. Although, I always noticed it was the producer talking in the ear not the director. If you go long, they start panicking for you to pick it back up or trying to somehow alert you that they are cutting the next story.
 
#36
#36
and I would like to know how much of Bradshaw's antics and statements are improv? It's tough to tell cuz he looks all over the place except at the camera, yet he has all kinds of stats to back him up.

I know our weekend sportscaster basically just used the teleprompter for notes. I'd hate to be a deaf person watching the local CBS station trying to figure out some of what he wrote in the teleprompter. most of it was hardly structured at all.
 
#45
#45
That was funny. I think at some time or other a lot of people go off at their job like that.
 
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