--- title: Best News Bloopers From 80s and 90s: Video description: And features so much big hair canonical: https://time.com/3836473/best-news-bloopers-80s-90s/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-04-27T15:17:36.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:19:09.797Z og:title: This Compilation of News Bloopers From the 80s and 90s is Absurd og:description: And features so much big hair og:url: https://time.com/3836473/best-news-bloopers-80s-90s/ 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: This Compilation of News Bloopers From the 80s and 90s is Absurd twitter:description: And features so much big hair twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Compilation of News Bloopers From the 80s and 90s Is Positively Absurd by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Apr 27, 2015 3:17 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Apr 27, 2015 3:17 PM UTC If you need a little Monday pick-me-up, we recommend taking seven minutes and watching this ridiculous compilation of the best news bloopers from the 80s and 90s. The clips feature plenty of inappropriate laughing, technical difficulties and double entendres — but all with a retro flair. Some of the bloopers are so ridiculous (and, warning, profanity-ridden) that you might wonder if they were staged. Either way, they’re all still hilarious. Enjoy. _Read next:_ [_Watch All the Funniest News Bloopers of 2014_](http://time.com/3650135/news-bloopers-2014/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3836473/best-news-bloopers-80s-90s/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3836473/best-news-bloopers-80s-90s/"},"headline":"This Compilation of News Bloopers From the 80s and 90s Is Positively Absurd","datePublished":"2015-04-27T15:17:36.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:19:09.797Z","description":"And features so much big hair","url":"https://time.com/3836473/best-news-bloopers-80s-90s/","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/3836473/best-news-bloopers-80s-90s/","name":"This Compilation of News Bloopers From the 80s and 90s Is Positively Absurd"}}]}] ```