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Don’t let the relatively small regional audiences and occasionally mundane stories get you fooled, local news is a high-pressure media arena, and in many ways the lack of major funding forces reporters to go beyond their normal comfort zones more often. Two recent listicles explored the various failures of these overworked and underpaid professionals, mental_floss [...]

Some time ago we featured a listicle of outstanding nature web cams, but of course – as reality TV teaches us – the most entertaining thing to watch tends to involve humans. Accordingly, mental_floss’s listicle of the Top 11 Live Web Cams features a balanced mix of animal and human subjects. Our favorites, because they’re [...]

We wouldn’t ordinarily laugh at someone fainting (probably), but when it happens on live TV there’s something practically revolutionary about the whole thing – as in: “To hell with this perpetual capitalist infotainment news flow, I’m out!” In commemoration of such moments of slippage and breakdown in the otherwise uninterupted monolith that is live TV, [...]

Our friends at Urlesque know the importance of keepin’ it real. And what’s realer than flatulence on live television? There is none more real. Below, some of Urlesque’s 6 Best Televised Farts:
Tiger Woods farts on the fairway:

Regis Philbin lets one “Ripa” (get it? get it?):