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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Dec 30, 2014 8:32 PM UTC  by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Dec 30, 2014 8:32 PM UTC This wasn’t exactly a year full of good news — but it _was_ a year full of good news bloopers. This compilation includes some of 2014’s very best TV mishaps — and seeing them all one after the other only amplifies the true ridiculousness. There are tons of accidental f-bombs, reporters getting smacked with random objects, hilarious technical goofs, weird costumed people running wild in the backgrounds of shots and more. It’s a whole year’s worth of pure schadenfreude, and it is a beautiful gift to us all. Oh, if [you’re thirsty for more](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zymqOEDLYnU), NewsBeFunny has added a second compilation of bloopers: ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3650135/news-bloopers-2014/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3650135/news-bloopers-2014/"},"headline":"Watch All the Funniest News Bloopers of 2014","datePublished":"2014-12-30T20:32:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:15:36.070Z","description":"From unfortunate Freudian slips to hilarious technical mishaps, check out the year's most entertaining on-air blunders","url":"https://time.com/3650135/news-bloopers-2014/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6fe4021ff3da8ea6/698777a7e53aba31074d6c90/screen-shot-2014-12-30-at-3-02-58-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6fe4021ff3da8ea6/698777a7e53aba31074d6c90/screen-shot-2014-12-30-at-3-02-58-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen Shot 2014-12-30 at 3.02.58 PM","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3650135/news-bloopers-2014/","name":"Watch All the Funniest News Bloopers of 2014"}}]}] ```