I hate it when people try to be funny and tonight I hate myself. I violated my own rule. Never TRY to be funny. If it happens naturally, great. Other than that..skip it.

Tonight Felger hung me out to try when I made a joke about his weather talk. I said he will have the five day forecast and we will send him down to cover the storms in Florida.    Crickets. Come on…help me out with a fake TV laugh.

One of our camera photogs (short for photograher..TV term) Barry Alley says that I have the best TV laugh around. This is a fake laugh so someone who has said something that is not funny doesn’t feel like a fool. Of course, no one was there to help me tonight. That’s it - I am done with my TV laugh. If I don’t get a chuckle to bail me out…I refuse to bail out anyone.

Yes, my joke that Tony Romo should put Simpson on the back of his jersey bombed. Late Edition producer, Nate Long, said the material was fine but the delivery was not.  Since it was at the end of the show maybe I got lucky and  you switched over to McCain.

Joe Haggerty was in tonight. I asked you at 6:30 if you liked Gresh’s red shirt. So, I will ask you tonight, "do you like Joe’s sideburns?" The jury is still out for me. Not sure. I think he may be trying to hard for the Elvis or Johnny Cash look. There might be a Dwight Yoakam influence there as well.

Talk to you tomorrow night. No jokes, I promise.