TV Producer Has On Air Freakout
A TV news producer starts freaking out and, somehow, the audio makes it onto the live broadcast. Professional? No. Horrifying? Yes. Hilarious? Very yes.
Freak-out at Logan Airport
Never take acid before going on a flight, kids. This girl thought it would be a good idea to freak out in the most public space, the food court, and then repeatedly ask to call her parents.
This Guy Is More Excited About Soccer Than You Will Be About Anything
Picture a day where you win the lottery, score the winning touchdown at the Super Bowl, and find the perfect pair of jeans on sale. Multiply that by 10,000 and you have this announcer's level of elation.
America's Funniest Video of the Day: Pregnancy Freakouts
All of these people have quite a conniption, considering that they aren't the ones who are pregnant.
Tila Tequila's Perfect Digital Trainwrecks Merit New Slang: The Tweakout
Tila Tequila's latest unwillingness to acknowledge the universe's "Please: stop." advice has yet again resulted in a stream of Tweets serving as irrefutable evidence that she needs professional help. At the very least, it's disconcerting. People tend to do this!
Our Contribution to the Rapidly Expanding 'Shreiking Glenn Beck' Mashup Genre
Glenn Beck went girly-ballistic on a radio caller Wednesday, mustering all the white rage he could to squeak out a high-pitched "Get off my phone!" Naturally, internet people made funny videos. Here's ours, and some of our favorites.
Look Who's Snarking Now: Novelist Uses Twitter to Trash Critic
Alice Hoffman has a new novel out. Roberta Silman gave Hoffman's book a lukewarm review in the Boston Globe. Alice Hoffman then went insane on Twitter, even publishing Silman's phone number and encouraging her fans to call and attack her.
Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley Uses Twitter to Exhibit Insanity, Illiteracy
Barack Obama used his weekly YouTube address to announce his intention to address health-care reform in the coming months, an announcement that incited Republican Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa to make a Herculean ass of himself by raging incoherently on Twitter.
Jimmy Kimmel Destroys ABC at ABC Upfronts
Gawker's old pal Jimmy Kimmel had what the Times' Dave Itzkoff termed as a "'Jerry Maguire'-like moment" while delivering an address to potential advertisers at ABC's upfront presentation on Tuesday, and it was simply awesome.
Jim Cramer Friday Freakout!
I mean can you believe the nerve of this fuckin' guy, coming on CNBC and saying amateurs should follow a proven successful passive investment strategy and shouldn't try to time the market according to the rantings of a man whose stock picks have a losing record? The nerve of this fuckin' guy. Shove your "index funds"…
In Which Gawker Gets on Mary Rambin's Very Last Nerve
Mary Rambin, colon cleanse enthusiast and until this week, one third of dating columnist Julia Allison's egoblogging startup, would like to shoot one of this site's writers "in the scrotum."
One More Thing: People Losing Their Shit in Movies and TV
Perhaps the greatest thing in drama and comedy is that moment when a character totally unloads verbally in the worst possible way. Freak-outs, hissy-fits, last-nerve explosions... Nothing is more entertaining. And, in a freaky way, nothing is more nurturing. So let us share our favorites, shall we? I'll get us started…
Montel Williams: Newspaper Interns Are Dangerous, Must Be Eliminated
Over the weekend, multiple sclerosis victim and talkshow host Montel Williams threatened a teenage newspaper intern who asked him a question at a press event. "Don't look at me like that," he said to her. "Do you know who I am? I'm a big star, and I can look you up, find where you live and blow you up." On the next…
'Post' Drinker Declares War On "Secret Bars"
Secret bars: Kind of awesome, or also kind of annoying, especially if one has to enter it through a phone booth in a cheesy hot dog stand as one does at PDT on St. Mark's. We've made our peace—but one woman has had enough! In the Post, Maureen Callahan declares war on PDT. The weirdest part of the story isn't that…
