Okay, maybe not so much falling down funny as amusing. Last Week Tonight with John Oliver put HBO’s producers to work tracking down video of TV newscasters and guests avoiding certain words and only referring to, for example, “the T word.”
For the compilation run on the weekly program last Sunday (September 28), Oliver’s team found many examples for a segment titled “Words Newscasters Coyly Refuse to Say.”
See if they make it through the entire alphabet, from A to Z, without missing any letters.
(To find the clips, I’m betting they used SnapStream, the same DVR system, with closed-captioning search, utilized by the Media Research Center, parent organization to NewsBusters.)
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