--- title: News Bloopers: WWAY Reporter Chris Brown Bursts Out Laughing on Air description: Also, his name is Chris Brown canonical: https://time.com/3675312/news-bloopers-reporter-laughs-on-air/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-01-20T21:46:53.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:16:06.826Z og:title: Watch a Reporter Giggle Uncontrollably On Air and Try Desperately to Pull Himself Together og:description: Also, his name is Chris Brown og:url: https://time.com/3675312/news-bloopers-reporter-laughs-on-air/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb8b9c43288a4b0ab/69877adb06f2c17e49333802/screen-shot-2015-01-20-at-3-44-12-pm.png?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Screen Shot 2015-01-20 at 3.44.12 PM og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch a Reporter Giggle Uncontrollably On Air and Try Desperately to Pull Himself Together twitter:description: Also, his name is Chris Brown twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb8b9c43288a4b0ab/69877adb06f2c17e49333802/screen-shot-2015-01-20-at-3-44-12-pm.png?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch a Reporter Giggle Uncontrollably On Air and Try Desperately to Pull Himself Together by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Jan 20, 2015 9:46 PM UTC  by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Jan 20, 2015 9:46 PM UTC It’s easy to make fun of TV reporters for bloopers and mishaps, but let’s all admit that it takes an impressive amount of composure and poise to do what they do each day. Sometimes, though, they lose that composure and poise and it’s great and we should just allow ourselves to be entertained. In this segment from WWAY in Wilmington, N.C., anchor Daniel Seamans apologizes and explains that the crew’s got “the tickle bug,” which we assume is a folksy way of saying “we can’t stop laughing about something stupid that happened moments before we went live.” His co-anchor Makenzi Henderson then introduces the segment, explaining that charter boate are angry about proposed restrictions on fishing expeditions or something like that. Then anchor Chris Brown takes it away, but apparently talking about chart boats is just too hilarious for him and he just can’t get through it. He keeps giggling and snorting, briefly composing himself, and then breaking down again. It’s great and we can totally relate. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3675312/news-bloopers-reporter-laughs-on-air/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3675312/news-bloopers-reporter-laughs-on-air/"},"headline":"Watch a Reporter Giggle Uncontrollably On Air and Try Desperately to Pull Himself Together","datePublished":"2015-01-20T21:46:53.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:16:06.826Z","description":"Also, his name is Chris Brown","url":"https://time.com/3675312/news-bloopers-reporter-laughs-on-air/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb8b9c43288a4b0ab/69877adb06f2c17e49333802/screen-shot-2015-01-20-at-3-44-12-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/bltb8b9c43288a4b0ab/69877adb06f2c17e49333802/screen-shot-2015-01-20-at-3-44-12-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen Shot 2015-01-20 at 3.44.12 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/3675312/news-bloopers-reporter-laughs-on-air/","name":"Watch a Reporter Giggle Uncontrollably On Air and Try Desperately to Pull Himself Together"}}]}] ```