Hilarious 1994 ‘Today’ Show Clip Allegedly Costs Poster His Job
- Posted on February 4, 2011 at 4:36pm by
Mike Opelka
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Last week as the world buzzed about Egypt’s riots and the coverage being disbursed thanks to Twitter, Facebook, and the web in general, a 1994 video clip from the Today Show surfaced. On the very brief clip we saw Bryant Gumbel and Katie Couric wondering about this new-fangled communication system called the Internet.
The clip went viral in a matter of hours and today we learned that viral videos can have a price. Washington Post blogger/columnist Rob Pegoraro tweeted that the gentleman who posted the clip has been fired.
One might hope that NBC would appreciate the buzz created by this classic clip. They did, for about a minute when they actually played it on the current Today Show.
This reporter would hope someone at NBC re-thinks the firing. It’s not like this was the WikiLeaks of morning television.
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Comments (162)
TracyC
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 5:24pmMaybe, just maybe, they should have had Al Gore on, since he did claim to invent the internet….LOL!
Report Post »Marylou7
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 8:02pmGood one!!! In Al Gore’s dreams… lol…..that man is so dumb, Nawwww better not.
Report Post »Capt_Spalding
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 5:20pmNice to see Bryant Gumbel and Perky Katie are still just as moronic today.
Report Post »Man! That is painful to watch!
uvgtafrnd2
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 5:17pmKaty Clueless and Bryant Dumbo….nothing has changed!
Report Post »Chicago Ray
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 6:17pmSadly no, not on the networks. Brutal.
Report Post »uvgtafrnd2
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 5:06pmWhat does “unbiased news reporting” mean???????
Report Post »ctate970
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 5:06pmHow could he have been that clueless in 94? I went online for the first time in 96.
Report Post »Chicago Ray
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 6:16pmMe too !! AOL and built my first website that year.That’s when all there was were millions of identical Credit card clone sites and a couple AOL, ATT Worldnet and Compuserve channels….
Report Post »Acekool
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 5:06pmWhat is this guy’s name? He should be working for Wikileaks!!
Report Post »Hope he gets a revenge job at Fox!!
Divothead
Posted on February 5, 2011 at 2:04pmKatie and Bryant love Wikileaks. Isn’t that ironic?
I‘d love to find out his leaker’s name and learn that he/she is a minority.
Report Post »uvgtafrnd2
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 5:03pmWhat is unbiased reporting anyway? Ha ha ha!
Report Post »Grandpa's Attic
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 4:58pmOh the power of Bryant Gumbel!!! Oh cower to his power…shhhsh.. Good people are getting canned for lessor things here in America, get over it. Can’t just CYA, now you got to KYBA (Kiss Your Boss’s A…) as well… pucker up America!
Report Post »Katayno
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 4:53pmA lot of people didn’t know about email back them. Really thin-skinned, don’t you think. The lefties are naturally to blame for that poor man being fired.
Report Post »Gunonesis
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 4:49pmIdiots then, idiots now.
Report Post »ThatchWeave
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 4:49pmThe @ discussion sounds like something one would hear in the new Discovery channel series, An Idiot Abroad! lol
Report Post »RightPolitically
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 4:47pmThey’re FASCIST LEFTISTS over there at NBC. What the hell did you expect? I hope he gets his job back because Obama already has enough UNEMPLOYED Americans to deal with.
Report Post »vic138
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 4:46pmThese people take themselves much too seriously. Laugh at yourself, its ok. Certainly not worth someones job; especially now.
Report Post »German Dude
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 4:44pmIdiots then and idiots now. Who would have thought it.
Report Post »middleclassprophet
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 4:55pmThis is from 1994 not 2004. If you are calling these people idiots for not knowing what the internet was back then, you’re basically calling well over 90% of the population idiots.
Report Post »WhiteFang
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 5:18pmGerman Dude.
Report Post »Don’t worry about “noclass”. He is just an antagonizer here, just ignore his nonsense.
Showtime
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 6:12pm@MiddleClassProphet/KillafromWasilla/MsMonsoon (Why don’t you simply combine them?)
Report Post »The point is they were idiots then and are idiots now. We the People are NOT idiots — just those who have to post under MULTIPLE yet still ANONYMOUS NAMES. Ring a bell?
ProgessiveFail
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 4:44pmhmm, I’m confused as to why someone would be fired for posting this. Hardly anyone knew about the net in 94.
Report Post »Marrabella
Posted on February 5, 2011 at 12:16pmIT GOES TO CHARACTER
Don’t know about you but I certainly was active on the Internet then and I am not very computer literate. It just shows you that these people don’t know much. And are quick to put down things they don’t understand.
Report Post »V-Forge
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 4:43pmNever expose them for the fools they are. It’s an unforgivable sin.
Report Post »OutOfTheAether
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 4:42pmThat is just TOO funny
Report Post »aLinedog
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 4:41pmGood for him. Better to die hungry than work for closet Statists. Read: Socialists, Communists, Islamicists, Fascists, etc.
Report Post »-Line
Went to NZPatriot today, came across this clip. It’s worth a look. Credit of creation goes to someone named Janet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLlF5YMf7Yc&feature=player_embedded#t=207s
Dale
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 4:58pmTook a look at the video – two things struck me: 1) the anointed one puzzled by a rock or shell. One would think he never saw one before, and 2) later there is a photo of, again, the one who would be king in a Mussolini stance. Check it out!
Report Post »GetUpOnTheWheel
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 4:41pmHe worked for NBC? Pieces of this story seem to be missing.
Report Post »OutOfTheAether
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 4:41pmThis was just TOOOO funny
Report Post »NOBLEAGL
Posted on February 7, 2011 at 9:52amWhy didn’t they call and ask Al Gore? He invented it.
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 4:41pmFigures, the one person who releases “reality” gets canned while the people who make stuff up as they go along still have jobs. Maybe FOX will hire him.
Report Post »SHTFMRadio.com -- Emergency Preparedness Radio Show
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 4:44pmAMEN grandmaof5 !
This crap is getting crazy.
BTW great name
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 5:00pmYou’d better call the fire department for that comment, Grandmaof5. You really smoked ‘em!
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 5:13pmSHOWTIME, thanks for your family story, I really enjoyed it. Paint only portraits or naturalist too?
Report Post »Carl1
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 5:29pmGood one. And so true
Report Post »Carl1
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 5:58pmgrandmaof5
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 4:41pm
Figures, the one person who releases “reality” gets canned while the people who make stuff up as they go along still have jobs. Maybe FOX will hire him.
Grandma, Thanks! That‘s the best line I’ve read all week. So true for NBC
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 5:59pm@Showtime and Grandmaof5
Thanks for the prayers for my mother and family; they are greatly appreciated. It has been one long day today, so until tomorrow, I go and sign off – keep safe and God speed be with you all.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 6:07pm@Grandmaof5 –Animals, people, landscapes, seascapes, anything but abstract. Oil.
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 7:49pmSHOWTIME, have a site? Have you ever heard of C. Ford Riley out of Jax FL? He is a naturalist.
Report Post »DashRipRock
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 4:40pmThis is bullcr@p
Olberman was already fired before he posted this video
Report Post »LSX
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 4:39pmMoe – Larry – Curly
The Today Show on NBC
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Report Post »8jrts
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 4:55pmLmao!!
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 5:49pmFunny.
Report Post »hempstead1944
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 5:57pmCurley, Moe and Larry would be offended…..by the comparison
Report Post »SHTFMRadio.com -- Emergency Preparedness Radio Show
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 4:39pmWhy did he get fired ?
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 4:57pmDon’t have a clue. O‘Reilly pointed out Katie Couric’s hairdo and laughed. Styles do look funny after they change. Remember bell-bottom slacks for women? Ridiculous!
Report Post »Paul G
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 5:08pmSeriously though…Why did he get fired?
Report Post »WhiteFang
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 5:40pmThe clip showed that the three stooges did not know what the Internet was, and that embarrassed them.
Report Post »In 1994, I did not know what it was either. Good thing I was not filmed.
Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 5:49pmGive you one simple answer – modern PC run ramshod over the common sense that most americans have compared to the left and progressives with their insane ideals and myopic view of the world.
Report Post »Welcome Black Carter
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 6:08pmLiberals do not look to stupid and they have nasty habit of feeling they hold authority over people. Now, we saw the clip and thought wow, time flys! They see the clip and feel it makes them look stupid. (a position they are only too familiar with…) We would complement the person who dug it up with a “nice catch” liberals fire him for being so unsubmissive.
Report Post »Life is too short to be a liberal, really…
TonyDarrington
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 8:16pmHe was fired because the hosts claim that a bunch of Universities invented the internet. Everybody knows that Al Gore invented the internet. That clip was supposed to be sequestered. Now NBC is open to a lawsuit for whatever lawyer-y thing Al Gore can think of.
Report Post »MrButcher
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 4:38pmwhat is the Today Show?
Report Post »Old Truckers
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 4:51pmWhat is You Tube? How does that work? Funny huh!
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 4:53pmI assume he didn’t have permission from NBC before he posted it. Progressives don’t have any sense of humor, unless it’s name calling. They are so filled with hate.
Report Post »Old Truckers
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 4:53pmWas 1994 that long ago? Where has the time gone?
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 4:54pmI don’t know. I saw it on Fox News last night. I thought it was a really neat captured moment in history — how far we’ve come in so short a period. It’s sorta like progressing from outhouses to indoor toilets! I remember both! And iceboxes, that you put the ice in from the ice man’s truck. Or, the phones that you used to crank progressing to cell phones. How about houses that were heated with a woodburning stove in the kitchen and a fireplace in each room — to central heat and air and no fireplaces?
I mean, what’s the big deal that someone got fired for it?
Report Post »stacybernardslay
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 4:57pmWhat is this interweb you speak of, seriouly f-ed up dude got canned – hope he is eligible for the full three years of unemployment. That‘ll learn ’em.
Report Post »bikerr
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 5:00pmBoy everybody gets a good laugh out of this. It’s funny regardless of the people who are in it.
Report Post »timej31
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 5:01pmIt was a morning TV show that housewives used to watch in the mornings.
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 5:16pmThis Internet is just a fad anyway, NBC, stands for Nobody Betrays the Company.
“Never go against the family” – Michael Corleone, Godfather.
Report Post »Grandpa's Attic
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 5:23pm@Bikerr yeah real funny to everybody, but the poor guy who lost his job over these three stooges with thin skin.. Amazed at how Katie can dish it out but can’t take it…
Report Post »NickDeringer
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 5:27pmThis will go down in history with “Hey! Let’s have a Muslim Cosby Show!!”
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 6:03pm@stacybernardslay
Report Post »That made as much sense as MiddleClassProphet/Killa from Wasilla/MsMonsoon does.
nothingbuthetruth
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 6:06pmlook up Archie Bunker clip talking about How Carter and the democrats are putting us in the poor house,
Report Post »janedough1
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 6:19pmIt used to be a show that starred Katie (always) Correct and Bryant Grumble.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 6:34pmProgressives can’t laugh at themselves … only spew vile hatrid to others. NBC is very good a spewing!
Report Post »Ironmaan
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 6:39pmThe Today Show is soooo yesterday.
Report Post »http://guerillatics.com
justanamerican
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 6:53pmIf it made Bush look bad, he’d have been promoted to Vice President
Report Post »justanamerican
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 6:54pmKatie the STUPID, in her purest form…………
Report Post »Jarski
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 7:06pmT O D A Y S H O W
Report Post »Hmmmmmm
Was that today? Is it still on? What’s a phone line? What’s a Couric? What’s a Gumball?
My Couric osity is peeked! I’ll mull it over whilst I chew a Gumball.
cologoddess
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 7:14pmHahahhaa… what’s the Today Show… exactly. I have not watched it for years and years!!
Report Post »Noonien_Soong
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 7:52pmIs this the result of censoring a newsworthy source? The outrage, the infamy, he will be hired for investigative reporting somewhere by those who have the guts to show th truth.
Report Post »Tony
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 8:53pmToday show, Katie, Bryan, was this an early “reality show” featuring the ill informed? Am I right, did the “katie” character move on to an evening news hour verison?
Report Post »ScreaminEagle
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 9:25pm@Timej31
Report Post »What’s a housewife
My Sacred Honor
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 9:42pmOh, this is frickin’ hysterical on SO many levels!
Report Post »My Sacred Honor
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 9:45pmEXCEPT the guy getting fired.
“I mean, come on!”
Report Post »-Jimmy, “SouthPark”
My Sacred Honor
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 9:46pm@ SHOWTIME…
Report Post »Has your account recently been jacked? I always remembered you as a kinda centrist/conservative but the last few days been seeing some hate-filled posts from you ala “BECKISNUTS”…
Just wondering because it has been happenning. A LOT.
CowboyExpat
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 11:10pmKatie Couric….who ‘dat?
Report Post »RockyMountainMosaics.Com
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 11:35pm“Well Johnny, the Today Show was this program that put out a bunch of Marxist propaganda on television. It was popular back before the internet and guys like Rush Limbaugh, when individualists like ourselves still believed that nobody else thought the way we did.”
“Gee Dad, how did you get by without stuff like the Drudge Report?”
“It wasn’t easy, son. Here, watch this old youtube video of the show and you’ll see what I mean.”
“Wow Dad, those people were really strange.”
“They sure were son, they sure were.”
Report Post »mjbeejr
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 11:51pmWhat is a Bryant Gumbel? Katie whosiwhat’sit?
Report Post »ObliviouslyAware
Posted on February 5, 2011 at 2:41amSeriously… What’s the today show?
Report Post »slade37
Posted on February 5, 2011 at 4:31am@Old Truckers – Isn’t YouTube an inner tube rental company for using in lakes or rivers?
Report Post »Polwatcher
Posted on February 5, 2011 at 5:18amNBC should pay this reporter for the advertisement.
Report Post »tinman44
Posted on February 5, 2011 at 6:34amDidnt they all pile on Bush senior for saying something similar?
Report Post »Beckofile
Posted on February 5, 2011 at 10:18amAnd the Ad exposed what? The MSM is full of idiots?
Report Post »*************************
Posted on February 5, 2011 at 3:42pmThat’s the Liberal-biased media for you … always on top of a story. @
“What in the hell do you think you’re doing here? This is a closed set.” -Buddy Bizarre, Blazing Saddles
Report Post »butchcoolidge
Posted on February 5, 2011 at 6:04pmWho is Bryant Gumball and Katy Cowlick?
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