The sportscaster can’t stop complaining as he fills in for the weatherman in hilarious live hits
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An Iowa sports reporter has gone viral for his vocal complaints after being asked to fill in for a weather reporter – during a snowstorm.
Mark Woodley, a sports reporter for CNN affiliate KWWL, posted a video to Twitter on Thursday that collected some of his grievances from his days as a weather reporter.
“I usually play sports, everything is canceled here for the next few days,” a sardonic Woodley said in the video, outside Waterloo, Iowa, covered in snow. “So what better time to ask the sportsman to arrive about five hours earlier than he would normally wake up, be exposed to wind, snow and cold, and tell other people not to do the same?”
“I’m used to these late night shows that are only 30 minutes long, and usually those shows I’m in,” he said in another segment. “This is a very long show, so tune in for the next few hours to see me getting more and more grumpy.”
“Can I go back to my normal job?” he complained at another time. “I’m sure you guys added an extra hour to this hour just because someone likes torturing me.”
Woodley said he “didn’t even know” the channel had a 3:30 am time slot – and he didn’t find out it would cover that time slot until the night before.
As a result, he slept only about three hours before being sent into the storm.
“Some of these things I probably wouldn’t have said if I had eight hours of sleep,” he joked in an interview with CNN on Friday.
Woodley said his sarcastic remarks were “just a little bit of who I am”.
“We cover this stuff every year, it’s all the same, and I think sometimes viewers turn off, and I thought maybe if I brought a little attitude to it, viewers would pay attention,” he said. “It’s a very serious storm,” he said, and he stressed the importance of “making sure people know what they need to do to be safe.”
And luckily, Woodley’s managers approve of his on-air attitude.
“At least now they are on board with it,” he said. He explained that his off-the-cuff comments were just a fraction of all the time he spent on the air.
“It was my sister-in-law who said ‘you have to tweet this,'” he said. “I put it on twitter, thinking 20-30 people are going to see this, my managers won’t care, it’s not going anywhere. Within hours I get these text messages like ‘dude you’re going viral, Judd Apatow retweeted you’.
Woodley said the video “was good fun”, although “there was some truth to it”.
