On Amateur Reporting..?

Question

Can anyone suggest any surprises or fun things we can include for our report that can make our classmates laugh out loud because of it?

We are actually given 10-15 minutes of T.V Broadcasting(just for our english subject).. We are 2nd year students only and we are given assignments to broadcast about such news on Business, Showbiz, Editorial, Current Affairs and Sports..

Any suggestions??

Answer 1

If you've got a format kind of like an actual news show with anchors at a desk and someone else doing sports you could try having a strange sports story last and then have some time for the anchors to interact with the sportscaster.  

Like for the Fourth of July there was the hot dog eating contest at Nathan's famous Hot Dogs, you could do that and maybe give someone a hot dog to try to eat fast.

Or there's an old one (Link below) of pitcher Randy Johnson hitting a bird with a baseball.  It explodes into a puff of feathers.  You could give the sports person a few stray feathers to joke with.

Letting news anchors interact with something strange to talk about usually ends up very funny.  In the news business there are stories called kickers that are usually something strange or interesting.  Like the water-skiing squirrels and the annual wife caring contests, random world records, strange people.  We had one where I work a long time ago that was about a monkey with a golf club.  The anchors didn't stop laughing for about five minutes after the newscast ended.

You could even try to make a news story start with a funny phrase.  When Britney Spears got married again the story started with the line 'Oops she did it again, Britney Spears got married.'  And the anchor delivered it straight.  Deadpan.  No laughing, just serious anchor voice.