Fox News Follies: Shep Smith Ad Libs During Fire Alarm

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By Ken Shepherd (Bio | Archive)
July 27, 2007 - 09:38 ET

Nothing biased here, just an amusing video to kick off your weekend. Yesterday shortly after 3:30 p.m. Eastern on "Studio B," Fox News anchor Shep Smith cracked up his guests and crew by joking about the all-too-frequent incidence of false fire alarms at Fox News Headquarters in New York.

Enjoy the YouTube video embedded below the fold.

When we move this program to the newsroom, I called it. First of all I said, the overhead pagers. 'Please return video tape 3134 to the playback center.' And then I said that fire alarm will go off. There's no fire! There's never a fire in here. But they go off, and in just a minute, some dude on like the 50th floor will come on, and he'll go, 'Hello, this is the fire warden. Nothing weird has happened. There is a lady stuck in the toilet on the 31st floor,' and the fire alarms will go off for three more hours...

(hat-tip BMI's Paul Detrick)


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Priceless!

July 27, 2007 - 11:33 ET by Gary Hall

Priceless! thanks (;~> gh

Good on his feet

July 27, 2007 - 12:01 ET by ThisnThat

Shep is pretty good ad-libbing and thinking on his feet. Most of the time, he is really funny too. He needs to stay away from certain events though (like his Katrina fiasco), but overall -- not bad. And this video was great.

"Nothing biased

July 27, 2007 - 12:07 ET by Chris Norman

"Nothing biased here..."

Ken,

Thank goodness you put in that disclaimer. Otherwise Balboa and a few other "no bias here" protesters would have popped in to scold you. Heck, they still might, as they do this automatically...  

 

The dogs bark, but the caravan moves on.

- Arabian Proverb

Trust me, it's the complaint

July 27, 2007 - 12:21 ET by Ken Shepherd

Trust me, it's the complaint that annoys me most.

If I had a dollar for every time I heard it, well, I could buy a nice lunch. I haven't heard it that much. But still...

I don't get it. Is there

July 27, 2007 - 14:28 ET by balboa

I don't get it. Is there some inherent bias in the acknowledgment of fire alarms? Is that strictly a liberal trait? What, conservatives don't fall for the ol' fire alarm gag? COME ON!

(...just kidding, didn't want you to think I'd missed this one.)

;-)

same old same old..

July 27, 2007 - 12:12 ET by lbcdawn

Too funny, nice to have some comic relief on a hectic Friday. I was at our soon to be opened- but already opened- Super Walmart yesterday afternoon and the fire alarm went off. Nobody flinched and the place was really busy. I got to a more secluded area and saw an employee who saw me (shock of all shocks) she says its nothing really. I thought do I look scared? It took about 3-4 minutes before someone came over the P.A. and announced the alarm was being tested.. yep that dispelled the mass hysteria! <snort>

~lbcdawn Religion is about doing. Christianity is about done.

I hate when they test the

July 27, 2007 - 16:29 ET by Night Watchman

I hate when they test the alarms here at work, it wakes me up.