Behind the scenes at Camp Happy

Tonight's newscast went off pretty well. We narrowly missed pulling off the elusive Perfect Cast with a couple of minor pronunciation snafus, but there's always tomorrow night. However, some people already noted how I came off looking darker than usual. Good catch: right before we went on the air Bri and I noticed a sickening smell wafing through the studio, which we ultimately determined was my chin light having burnt out.

This little device, which you've probably deduced by now, shines from underneath to eliminate any shadow cast by my chin. And it was kaput. So the place stank, I was poorly lit, and I had burning plastic fumes being shot right up my nose. That's live TV for you.

What was also a hoot was one of our floor producers yelled out "Alright, stop what you're doing..." during a commercial, which immediately caused us to ad hoc rap the first verse of "The Humpty Dance" in unison. There's a keeper for the Christmas party blooper reel.

I was thinking about doing my best Vanilla Ice "Drop that zero/get with the hero" impression to close out the show, but I like my job.