Jun 12
Ten On… - Week 11

This week’s edition of Ten On is a little different: I’m happy to present, for your viewing pleasure, ten video clips from YouTube that are worth a look.
1. DOWN THEY GO: When is runway video from a fashion show funny enough to break up two anchors? When it looks like this:
Who wears orange with pink, anyway?
2. BUDDHA BLESS YOU: This is a classic scene from the classic sitcom All in the Family in which the family debates what the Chinese might say when someone sneezes:
The funniest thing is, Archie is right: one way or another, while talking to the two men in his hypothetical scenario, Meathead would ask enough questions to get the answer he’s looking for. I just doubt he’d phrase it quite the way Archie did.
3. LAUGHING BABY: I dare you to keep a straight face while you watch this one:
Couldn’t do it, could you?
4. BROKE HER WHAT?: You’ve all seen the famous clip from The Price is Right featuring the excited contestant in the tube top. Here’s a different wardrobe malfunction:
5. FEELING NO PAIN: Adam recently played the Sunday Seven for the first time, and when I went to his blog, I found some videos he has produced on YouTube. This one, which analyzes an Aleve commercial cracked me up:
My favorite line: “I don’t think he’s taking Aleve.”
6. …AND TAKING NAMES: A three-year-old who may have seen one action movie too many:
At least the mom did point out that there was a better word to use.
7. ANGRY ANCHOR: In the 1970s and early 1980s, Jessica Savich was a well-respected anchor on NBC News. But this wasn’t a good night because the stage manager, the person who is supposed to give talent their time cues to make sure they’re finished on time, wasn’t where he was supposed to be when he was supposed to be there. This did not air…it was leading up to the live NBC News Update, but it’s nice to know that problems happen even at the Network level.
I love the line, “This is prime time television, here, folks!”
8. ROUGH RIDE: Here’s a blooper from the legendary Carol Burnett Show in which Tim Conway, playing his little old man character, is supposed to crash through a breakaway wall to escape a hospital room. But the wheelchair, which has been weighted down so he can ride on the front legs of it, can’t get traction on the slick studio floor. Hillarity ensues:
As promised, he finally got it.
9. BUT HE GOT A LAUGH: What do you do when you tell joke after joke that no one gets? If you’re Johnny Carson, you do this:
I still miss Johnny
10. GOLLY, HOLLY: Here’s one more clip from The Price is Right, which features Kool and the Gang’s “Celebration” instead of the regular theme during the credits. (It’s cool these days to actually see a credit roll.) Barker’s original Beauties get a little too “into” the tune, and for Holly (in the black gown), long before Janet and Justin’s “wardrobe malfunction,” there’s a near disaster.
Game show fans will also recognize the late great Johnny Olson, the greatest announcer in the business. That clip, incidentally, was from 1981.
Hope you enjoyed this all-video edition of Ten On. Have any clips you’d like to nominate?







