Sky News - Harold Pinter blooper

[tobo86]

Dead, noble prize ... I didn't realise there was a difference. No big deal really

[hellesterne]

Pinter himself would have laughed louder than any of us. But to be serious (for a bit longer) this reveals starkly the terrifying ignorance of newscasters who, because they daily make pronouncements on the world scene, are generally given much too much respect (in my view). In Canada one or two suffer from a genuine “folie de grandeur," presumably because they occasionally interview famous people.

[DomSezXL]

That is fucking awesome!!

[mychickenpoped]

Wow.

Howard-Changes name to Harold,

Harold is on the news,

Harold has just died,

Harold has just won the nobel prize.....What a role-model

[hardgayramen4ever]

joining us - died - nobel prize

amazing

[bufsoftley]

Sky News Have Done It Again. Grate work moron.

[mrdavidjrush]

@bufsoftley She may be a moron, but you mispelled "great" as "grate".

[OghamTheBold]

Horatio Pinta - the inventor of milk - has just died - has almost died of shock - at winning the nobly prize - the no bells pride

[Gr33nMamba]

Is Joining us, Is Dead, has won an award......ROFL.

[MsEiceEK]

How do these meatheads get jobs?

[VonScarfman]

Wow, multiple cock-up hurricane right there.

[david110988]

HOW DID SHE MESS IT UP SO MUCH

[primuschimpus]

Sky was probably wishing it was true due to his opposition to Murdoch. RIP Harold Pinter; a hero.

[Phil8227]

Wow - Sky News really are the first for breaking news - they reported his death 1 year before!

[fremsley001]

".... has won the Nobel Prize for literature, apologies for that". I'm sorry too. I was betting on Ian MacEwan.

[ampinoy13]

Winning a Nobel Prize would kill me, too!

[TheSilentAssasain]

Died -> Nobel Prize , how does that work.

[edmund184]

In the words of Mark Twain:-

Rumours of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

[xvaughanx]

the film synedoche new york references this clip

[doubledeckers]

@xvaughanx thanks, interesting. In what way?

[xvaughanx]

philip seymour hoffman is reading a newspaper and says "oh harold pinter has died...wait no he's won the nobel prize"

[GoodTimeGeorge3]

I hope to god that she wasn't reading the news on the day that Harold Pinter actually did die or he'd have died been lied to and laid before dying again.

[helenaZZZZirlandaise]

Ghost writers in the SKY?

[eLECTROLOSIS]

We have "Howard"... "Harold Pintus".. Is joining us in the Studio... The playwrite Harold Pinter has just died... News just.. "Has won the Nobel Prize for Literature

LMFAO

[khanzah]

looooooooooooooooooool

[semigotbanned]

he's joining us! oh, wait, he died !!

WTF LOL

[intheTea04]

how can you go from Harold Pinter dieing to winning the Nobel Prize for Literature - they don't even sound bloody similar even if someone in the gallery was speaking to her?

[scottishlad1987]

just be happy he's not dead. lol

[frenchkids]

Prize - Dies. Stupid, but I can see how the error could occur.

[iAMgta8608]

she reads the news from an auto q they could of got it mixed up on that and she is just reading what it says

[chrish12345]

no i think she just had it in her ear

[ianjames537]

jumping the gun on the teleprompter, it looks like

[Srekwah]

As a playright I'm sure he'd appreciate the drama.

[feckingbillgates]

Seems to me like she's hearing somebody gibbering into her ear. She has an introspective look in her eyes, and that quality in her voice of somebody who can't concentrate on what she's saying because of contradictory sound information. Also, all the errors are sound ones - Howard-Harold, Pintus-Pinter, has just died - nobel prize. Probably the person wasn't speaking clearly enough and there were other noises in the background.

[RobinScott93]

LOL! I couldn't stop laughing after watching this. He's in the studio, no, he's dead, no, he's won a Nobel prize. Haha

[Morrisseythe23rd]

She could get a job in their call centre.

[freeeki19]

Lmfao this is hilarious!!

[axel1million]

Breaking news..... Howard Pintus is in the studio! No, Harlod Pinter's has just died...... No No

Harlod Pinter's printer has won the Nobel prize for Physics.

[gratex]

howard pintus has died winning the nobel prize

[m8rkk]

sky news has gone downhill alot

[merchi7]

can we all get a grip here.  the girl got tongue tied, it happens to everyone in everyday conversation. does not make her a bad person

[MrSargeSays]

LOL!!!

ONE FOR THE FAILBLOG!!!! ^_^

[AshtonArcher]

Burn Sky News to the ground!

[MrSargeSays]

Here! Here!

They're Americanised, It's Rupert Murdoch's mouthpiece and worst of all I hate their wooshy graphics!

[Realizalize]

is there any phone tapping in the news?

i bet it is not on 55% of uk media, is it?

[MarkWilliams212]

there is in the british press. mainly the tabloids though

[stude]

she needs kicking in the cunt.

[AshtonArcher]

I concur!

[AcademyAwardsGirl]

Howard. lol.

[doubledeckers]

Howard Pintus - get it right! LOL

[feckingbillgates]

Howard Harold Pintus

[keith175]

lmao

[78UNKNOWN]

Breaking news. Watch me struggle the producer(who is prompting her), a trained monkey would had done a better job

[donvit2]

lol

[BNCA70]

why are we slagging her off? It was the wankers in the gallery giving her crap unclear instructions through her earpiece and she didn't have an autocue....this is rolling news....not a scripted hourly bulletin.

[BillStanley2008]

Hmm Jonathon Ross and Russell Brand get the wrath of the Daily "scum" Mail on their asses for ross admitting brand had shagged Andrew Sachs (*i didnt no of his name before the outrage lol) but this bird claims some old git has popped his clogs and she didnt get no daily mail hate fest thing going on? sexist homophopes lol

[ahahahaha15]

Obviously, you don't have a clue who Harold Pinter is. He was one of the best writers of this century. In 2005 he won the Nobel prize for literature which is more than I can ever say for Brand and Ross.

[aarandir]

Ah but you see, 'My Booky Wook' is the epitome of the genre of the Biography.

[mramo]

So let me get this straight. Sky News is being joined by a dead playwright called Harold Pinter who has just won the Nobel prize? Ok that makes sense! haha

[lifter1204]

They should've fired this stupid bitch. FUCK HER!

[champ20122]

i agree with you here my friend its as if the alien life forms have come back to dominate the world she is just a minor fucking misshap bless

[Foloman1]

They did, some months later! Where is Ginny Buckley now?

[DVDfeverGames]

LOL!

[edmame]

did she say howard at first? shock disbelief:PP

[wasabimanic]

good news after all.

[givemethevalium]

I loved that playwriter Howard Pintus.

[greggles2412]

Maybe she just had a Sixth Sense, knowing what we do on this very day?!?!?

[Mophesto13]

What? As in, she predicted that Harold Pinter would die one day?

Truly incredible foresight. I never saw it coming.

[cambridgechris]

If Ginny Buckley had handled this with some sort of humour, rather than shitting herself, she may have got away with it.

But she looked like a rabbit caught in the headlights, despite having 20 years journalistic experience behind her.

Still, from Sky News to the even more intellectually stimulating Tonight With Trevor McDonald, eh Ginny?

[MargotVoguey]

Oops. That must have been PAINFULLY embarrassing for her. Though, to be fair, if she hadn't heard of him then that is pretty...weird.

[grodon1]

She'd never even heard of him!

[philiploffler]

whats so funny about that?

[stellaviolens]

Poor Ginny was just one of those who took the rap after their terrible rebrand crashed and burned. They should have cut away another half of the staff. When I look in rarely its mostly ex ITV reporters on there upping the quality.

What she really heard down the wire, " your career has just died "

[alawooz]

Sky News is crap. Desperate for ANY promotion, they've turned all news into breaking news - stupid...

[BillStanley2008]

OMG i noticed that recently things like " Dog in Manhole" make breaking news lol

When the Queen passes it will be like not much as happend cos of Sky news stupid no it alls

[Somerville87]

This is why i watch BBC 24

[westphalianprinz]

Yeah, he won the Nobel Prize for literature, and while giving his Nobel Lecture from hospital, he let the neocons have it!

[PinkoPapist89]

lolllllllll

[michaelmichael40]

(Die)d and (pri)ze DO sound alike, especially one would image when the word is coming down an earpiece.

[notaperm]

Very true. Skies and ties and flies also sound the same. Pies is another one. "Playwrighter Howard Pinters has pies" would have been funny but less compelling perhaps. She was right to say died, ups the stakes, keeps people watching the unending drivel they specialise in. Specialise, that's another one..sounds like prize

[kazmurphyuk2]

true, true I love the way you can watch the news at 10am and by 6pm it's still the same person in the same tone with the same expression- poor sods .Personally I think it would have been even funnier if she hadn't realised, the dude on the end of that mic has NO sense of humour, he should have at least fed through some sort of amusing(?!) death scenario instead of correcting her.... some people ruin all the fun :p

[wwwdotnet]

i nearly pee'd my pants reading this.

[brwhizz]

Are you really Alan Davies from QI?

[michaelmichael40]

(Die)d and (pri)ze DO sound alike, especially one would image when the word is coming down an earpiece.

[michaelmichael40]

(Die)d and (pri)ze DO sound alike, especially one would image when the word is coming down an earpiece.

[Lethalsilence]

BAHAHHAA id have got up dropped my trousers, bent over and shat on live TV then sed AV THAT YOU SHIT. Thus my career as a newsreader ends..

[yodasdick]

what a stupid cow!

[ollie3003]

how does "just died"

and "just won the nobel prize for literature" look the same?????

[shapedy]

She's being spoken to in her earpiece while talking. It ain't easy.

[jamesey15]

Still as ollie3003 said they dont sound anything alike

[shapedy]

Died and prize don't sound alike?

She clearly said "just died" before listening to the rest of the phrase "for literature." And someone dying is not a bad guess for breaking news.

[michaelmichael40]

(Die)d and (pri)ze DO sound alike, especially one would image when the word is coming down an earpiece

[mrdog44bc]

ILMAO, Charlie Brooker's programme was great.

I used to watch 24 hr news in the early hours, just to see what was happening, before it is sanitised, almost unrecognisably, into a soothingly euphemistic breakfast.

[doubledeckers]

There are a couple of News 24 clips that I saw live and would love to get hold of. One was the day Roy Jenkins died. The political journalist in the studio said 'of course Roy Jenkins was one of the famous SDP gang of four - the others being Shirley Williams, David Owen and er... the one I can't remember'.

[doubledeckers]

Also there was an occasion when Peter Sissons introduced a pre-recorded video of him interviewing someone, but the camera stayed on him live, so he began trying to lip-sync to his recorded voice. It didn't work too well.

[feckingbillgates]

Peter Sissons lip-syncing to his prerecorded voice - that's an amazing thought! I wish somebody had recorded that. The things people do when they're put on the spot!

[doubledeckers]

I was just glad to hear that 'Howard Pintus' wasn't dead.

[treffynnon19]

I suppose you enjoyed Charlie Brooker's excellent Screenwipe special on TV news presentation, as well.

Thank goodness Ginny Buckley didn't last long at Sky News.

[RobinCarmody]

Pure Murdochism!