--- title: TV Host Calls News Anchor Hamburglar: Video description: "It's your birthday, I'll let it pass. No I wont, I'll get you later." canonical: https://time.com/3731956/tv-anchor-hamburglar-joke/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-03-04T20:11:09.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:17:23.309Z og:title: Watch an Anchor Stare Her Colleague Down After He Calls Her the Hamburglar og:description: "It's your birthday, I'll let it pass. No I wont, I'll get you later." og:url: https://time.com/3731956/tv-anchor-hamburglar-joke/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch an Anchor Stare Her Colleague Down After He Calls Her the Hamburglar twitter:description: "It's your birthday, I'll let it pass. No I wont, I'll get you later." twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch a News Anchor Stare Her Colleague Down After He Calls Her the Hamburglar by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Mar 4, 2015 8:11 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Mar 4, 2015 8:11 PM UTC When a TV news host in St. Louis noticed his colleague was wearing a black and white striped shirt similar to the outfit worn by [the Hamburglar](http://time.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/hamburglar.gif), he decided to make that observation known. The host, Tim Ezell, makes the reference pretty seamlessly and clearly catches the anchor, April Simpson, by surprise. She gives him what can only be described as a death glare, and then says, “It’s your birthday, I’ll let it pass.” Then she adds, “No I won’t, I’ll get you later.” The clip was actually shot a year and a half ago, but the TV station, FOX 2, just shared it on YouTube for the first time, Mashable [points out](http://mashable.com/2015/03/04/hamburglar-news-joke/). It’s gained popularity thanks to comedian Kevin Hart, who [shared it on Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10152688754132045) Tuesday. Alas, we never did find out if Simpson gets Ezell back for the diss. _Read next:_ [_Watch a Dog Interrupt the Weather Report in February’s Best News Bloopers_](http://time.com/3725838/february-news-bloopers/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3731956/tv-anchor-hamburglar-joke/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3731956/tv-anchor-hamburglar-joke/"},"headline":"Watch a News Anchor Stare Her Colleague Down After He Calls Her the Hamburglar","datePublished":"2015-03-04T20:11:09.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:17:23.309Z","description":"\"It's your birthday, I'll let it pass. No I wont, I'll get you later.\"","url":"https://time.com/3731956/tv-anchor-hamburglar-joke/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"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/3731956/tv-anchor-hamburglar-joke/","name":"Watch a News Anchor Stare Her Colleague Down After He Calls Her the Hamburglar"}}]}] ```