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Post by gbcop on Sept 27, 2007 7:44:55 GMT -6
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Post by gbcop on Sept 29, 2007 8:51:23 GMT -6
Am I the only one that found this histarical? Hahaha
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Post by LadyViper on Sept 29, 2007 10:17:21 GMT -6
I had tryed to pull it up, it took so long the otherday, I forgot about it. LOL!
I just watched it, it was more than funny!!! I laughed my back end off....
here's what they artical said:
Some might be a little embarrassed. Not Michael Scott. The veteran of 30 years in television broadcasting loves to tell the story. And no doubt he's told it a few hundred times.
In fact, Scott may be one of the most famous people you've never heard of.
"Aug. 19, 2002 ... Friday, 10:45 a.m.," he proudly proclaimed in a conference room at WAAY-TV Channel 31 on Monte Sano.
That day, Scott was doing the morning newscast for KAXS, the NBC affiliate in Dallas-Fort Worth, when something happened that changed his life forever. He was interviewing a snake wrangler on the air when things went a bit amiss.
"I'm fine with snakes and lizards as long as I know where they are," said Scott, who recently anchored KCTV in Kansas City and starts at WAAY on Monday during the 5, 6 and 10 p.m. newscasts.
The wrangler was holding a long rat snake as Scott interviewed him - the wrangler, that is - when a gecko lizard that was on a nearby table flung itself on Scott's chest. The 53-year-old was shocked, to say the least.
"I lost my mind and dropped an F-bomb on the air," Scott said. "I was shaking, and my wife thought I'd been electrocuted. I was just trying to get the thing off me, lost my balance and fell. I just kept saying, 'Get this thing off me!'
"The people in the studio were in hysterics, and my co-workers were just dying. If you hear the director's cut, it was, 'Did he just say what I thought he said?' "
Scott eventually removed the lizard and recovered to finish the segment, but that certainly wasn't "the rest of the story."
"As soon as the newscast was over, people were running down the hall to get dubs of the newscast," Scott said. "It was a slow news day, so our guys sent it to every NBC affiliate in the country."
Jay Leno showed the video that night on "The Tonight Show."
"Not once, twice, but six times, including the closing credits," Scott said.
The following Monday, Scott went into work wondering if his fright-inspired profanity would cost him his job. He found out quickly.
"My desk was covered with play lizards and snakes and a license plate that said, 'Beware of Geckos.' "
Nobody really remembered, or apparently cared, that he uttered an F-word under duress. People, instead, loved the video. The station put it on its Web site and had a million hits, causing it to shut down. Scott got e-mails from friends as far away from Paris.
Scott was famous. Or infamous.
" 'After Sept. 11, we just needed to laugh' " one e-mailer wrote.
" 'Our son has just gone through a tough divorce, and after watching your video, he laughed so hard he fell off the couch and peed in his pants,' " another e-mailer wrote.
"A minister said, 'This is better than prayer.' "
The TV station also loved it.
"We were No. 1 in the morning before the video," Scott said, "but we were a solid No. 1 after that. People said it was the funniest thing they'd ever seen, and it made me come across as human."
Now that he's in Huntsville, Scott hopes that he can help boost WAAY's ratings - just not with any wild antics with lizards. The truth is, Scott brings much more with him than just a crazy spot on YouTube. He's been an educator in the New York City public school system, a politician, a member of the inspirational group Up with People and an advocate against domestic abuse.
"If it deals with kids, I want to do it," said Scott, who has no children but does have a wife, Sandy, and a menagerie of animals.
Born in Harlem and raised in Queens (his parents are from Jamaica), Scott worked with emotionally troubled students in New York. He once walked into a school cafeteria and took away a gun from a students. He also worked at TV stations around the country - in Tucson, Ariz.; Denver; Omaha, Neb. (twice); Los Angeles; Dallas; Charlotte, N.C.; and Kansas City - and did "Entertainment Tonight" in 1993, interviewing celebrities such as Mel Gibson and Tom Hanks. He also ran for Congress in Nebraska in 1998; he won the Democratic primary but lost the general election.
He came to Huntsville for three reasons: He gained a huge respect for WAAY General Manager Ray Depa when the two worked together in Omaha. He wants to make WAAY No. 1. And he wants to teach. Why else would you leave the No. 31 TV market in Kansas City for the 84th in Huntsville?
"I wanted to come because of Ray, and I saw a challenge," Scott said. "Ray is passionate about the station, and he rekindled the passion in me.
"I've been in the business for 30 years, been in the No. 2 market (Los Angeles) and on a syndicated show ('E.T.'). I'm not here as an anchor, but more as a managing editor. I want to help teach reporters to tell a story better. And these guys here are like sponges."
What does he think of Huntsville and Channel 31 so far?
"I look at Huntsville as the next Omaha," Scott said. "It has all the elements to explode. The town has a very diverse, educated community. The way I look at Channel 31, all we can do is go up."
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