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Some More Karl Stefanovic

Aug 24, 2015
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I've grown to quite like Karl Stefanovic (pronounced Stefa-NO-vik), the longtime popular host of Australian TV's morning Today Show.  When the situation demands, he's a good, serious, blunt newsman, but who overall has a goofball sense of humor and likes to liven up the early morning program.  (If you missed an earlier post, here is the tribute montage the show put together of his work for his 10th anniversary on the program.  For all his pranks and goofing around, it's clear that people on the show adore him.)  He's also the fellow I wrote about who wore the same suit on-air for a full year and didn't tell anyone but his female co-anchor to make the point that people unfairly demand that women hosts on TV need to keep changing their clothes and be stylish, but no one commented once all year about him wearing the same suit.



Here is some more of the prankish Karl.  He had the person in charge of the teleprompter slip in some text for the sports report at the last minute, counting on the reporter Roz Kelley not having time to go over the copy again before appearing on air.  So, when finishing up her coverage of a soccer match, she instead -- as you'll hear at the 17-second mark -- begins to oddly talk about (for no apparent reason) a snack food item.  Before she can go on much further, she realizes what is happening but, try as she might, isn't able to quite stop in time.  And eventually realizes too who's to blame.  The latter, you'll see, shouldn't have been that hard to figure out...

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