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CNN’s Early Start Dials Wrong Number, Wakes Up Confused Man And Tells Him It’s The FBI

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Comedian Chuck Nice was scheduled to be a phone guest on CNN’s Early Start Monday morning at 6:40 as part of the “Wake ‘Em Up” segment. But the show dialed the wrong number, and instead woke up a random man with a Spanish accent. Host Ashleigh Banfield, not realizing it wasn’t Chuck Nice after he said “hello” twice, greeted him with, “Chuck, this is the FBI calling.”

“No,” the man said, before hanging up.

“This is somebody else,” co-host Zoraida Sambolin said.

Banfield, somewhere between horrified and hysterical, got up from the desk, laughing, telling Sambolin, “You handle this one.” She eventually returned to her chair:

“Poor guy has no idea he was just on CNN.”

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  • T. Gloves Donahue

    Hello. CNN Morning Zoo Crew?
    First time caller, longtime listener here.
    Check your breakroom.
    Is your refrigerator running?
    Better go catch it !

  • Anonymous

    WTF is this show supposed to be about? Why not just air some old episodes of Punk’d?

  • Anonymous

    Poor guy?  Poor CNN Ashleigh – it was YOU who made fools of yourself.

    Hey, where is mediaite’s story about how the press covered up that lavish haloween party the Obama’s hosted at taxpayer expense?  How come you are spiking that one?

  • T. Gloves Donahue

    Play Misty for Me.

    I’ll hang up and listen.

  • http://www.facebook.com/jas7751 Jay Aubrey

    The Childish News Network continuing its rapid decline in viewership.

  • Anonymous

    Hello CNN! Get a life. 

  • http://twitter.com/kidbookratings Erik Metz

    This whole segment is a terrible idea.  Was weird as a one-time stunt and it’s just awful as a daily recurrence.  Please make it stop.  Kill it with fire…

  • Anonymous

    CrudNutsNetwork. Where do they find those skags they hire–the local crack-house?

  • Anonymous

    Next in a gambit to be relevant MSNBC will counter with a Monday Morning Stalker segment.  

  • Anonymous

    Its alright – nobody was watching anyway

  • Anonymous

    What’s a matter Tina – you weren’t aware Presidents have had a Halloween party since 1936?  And that no government funds were used to celebrate the party, as it has
    been sponsored by the Hershey Foundation for the last fifteen years? 

    You’re an idiot.  Just like the Republicans that complained while not even bothering to find out from the Office of Management that this was not funded by “taxpayers”.

    You’re the lowest of the low – I bet even you family can’t stand you.

  • Cecelia

    That was kinda cute. 

    Reminded of the old day when phones were a source of endless home alone pranks or boys calling you up to play the latest song and say “Baby, this is how I feel about you.”

  • Anonymous

    Filled with hate much?   Must be a liberal…

  • Anonymous

    Instead of silly phone pranks how bout’ some gratuitous camera shots of Zoraida’s sexy legs.

  • Anonymous

    Wow – morning prank calls on CNN. And we wonder why this country is regressing.

    Look at those two braying morons.

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  • Anonymous

    And FOX & Friends will drop a flaming bag of Steve Doocey on people’s front steps and ring the bell.

  • Anonymous

    The party was for children of military families. 

    Not everyone hates the military like you do.

  • 12voltman1

    Belly Laugh!

  • Anonymous

    filled up with crap much? must be a repblitard!

  • Anonymous

    I guess you like people spreading lies Chuckie? Man up.

  • http://www.facebook.com/gav.lafreniere Gav Lafreniere

    The poor latino guy probably thought some drunk frat girls were drunk dialing the frat house.

  • Anonymous

    If that happened they’d  probably think either Beyonce bought a house next door and some TV dude wanted to ask their opinion on the matter or maybe that they’d just won publishers clearing house.

  • Anonymous

    Yeah right – stop projecting your hatred of the miltiary onto those of us who support, admire and work with them on a regular basis.

  • Anonymous

    Which is why the media HID the information from the public, because the WH was proud of what they were doing.

    bwahahahaha
    .

  • Anonymous

    You say you like the military, Tina_Tampa, then why do you object to there being a party at the White House for members of the Armed Forces and their families that is done at no cost to the taxpayer? You better check your patriotism, dear. And are you wearing your flag pin today?

  • 12voltman1

    Giggling pretty girls.can be entertaining sometimes.

  • http://twitter.com/BlueSaboteur Rob Leon

    Zoraida Sambolin is a hottie.  She can call me up anytime.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Nicholas-Imaging/100002569116413 Nicholas Imaging

    Surely CNN must realize that the comedy news market is currently ruled by John Stewart and Stephen Colbert. To unleash these two onto and educated public is indeed a recipe for disaster for the, once serious, News Network. Simulated prank calls are as entertaining as watching paint dry or watching these two every morning. 

    The producer of this abomination should, in future, NOT be allowed anywhere near a cell-phone camera much less a television camera. How could he/she sleep at night and accept a salary for the production of what should aptly be titled “Two Drunk Girls Read The News and Giggle”. 
     Did someone in Senior Management at CNN lose a bet or owe a relative a favour? This would be the the only justification for the continued insistence that this show would “Grow” on the viewers. I have news for you ,CNN …it would NOT.  These two could be topless it would NOT make a difference……(OOps i hope I have not given the producer any new ideas) because people turn to CNN for News…or at least they did. Stick with these two and you would be well on your way to cementing yourself as the WORST Cable News Network (and that’s behind FOX)Do you know how bad you have to be to fall behind FOX…..keep this up and you WILL FIND OUT.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jamie-Murphy/1788049486 Jamie Murphy

    Oh dear…

  • Anonymous

    That poor man for this so called entertainment to happen to him.   How uncaring  of a persons feelings can someone get. Geesh for Ashley Banfield to be laughing like that. OTOH I hope it was nervous laughter.

    Still it reminds me of the time then Republican nominee for president in 2001 when he made fun of a disabled man complaining about cuts on medicaid, food stamps.  The man needed both to survive.  
    “When “Giuliani Time” gives a glimpse of this Giuliani, it’s
    mesmerizing. So, the smiling mayor fields a phone call during his weekly
    radio show. The caller is angry about city cuts to food stamps and
    Medicare aid for the disabled. Hizzoner is a pit bull to the chase.

    “Hey,
    John,” Giuliani tells his caller, “what kind of hole are you in?
    There’s something that’s really wrong with you. . . . We’ll send you
    psychiatric help because you really need it.”

    As it happens,
    the caller, John Hynes, needs real help. A disabled lawyer, he suffers
    from Parkinson’s disease, and he’s had his benefits cut off and he’s
    running out of medicine.
    Source: Washington Post.  One of the best, most reliable newspapers in the US.
    How horrifically insensitive of both CNN and Rudy Guliani. 

    One last note on a much lighter side.  When I was a teen living in Phila, PA I dialed a phone numebe that I thought was the school I was calling out sick.  Well it turned out to be the Phila, PA branch of the “William Morris”

  • Anonymous

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    after only twenty-four hours in his bungalow:

     

    1.     He
    was thirty pounds overweight, had curvature of the spine, a pot belly and  he walked bowlegged!  His car was a perfect twin. The
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    2.     Mr.
    Brower served me canned meatballs for dinner, so I knew he bought the cheapest
    gas. This explained why the motor had a knock and the universal joint screeched
    like a sperm whale in heat.

    3.     One
    of his suspenders was ripped and patched with paper clips. The car’s fan belt
    was torn and held together by bobby pins. 
    Mr. Brower had dirty fingernails. Sure enough the car’s spark plugs were
    caked with grime.

    4.     I
    purposely dropped a cigar ash on my host’s living room rug.  He rubbed it into the moth-eaten rug.
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    Brower’s shoes were terribly run down. The car’s tires were worn to the tubes.
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    the clocks in his house were twenty minutes slow. After drinking cheap wine he
    admitted he had turned back the odometer 20,000 miles..

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  • Anonymous

    This is despicable behavior on the part of CNN.  You guys used to be a news station..now you’re the cartoon network.

  • David Deutsch

    your weed… it’s too strong, man.

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