Shep Smith On Falling Satellite Report: ‘This Is The Stupidest Thing We’ve Ever Done’

There’s really nothing funnier than a news anchor clearly not caring about the story he’s being asked to report. Recent examples have starred the likes of Bob Beckel and Don Lemon, and now we can add to that list one Shepard Smith.

Apparently some in the media are trying to turn the re-entry of a dead NASA satellite (the size of a bus) into Skylab 2.0. However, Smith could only get a few sentences into his report on the (infinitesimally small) chances of getting hit by pieces of the falling craft before stopping and declaring the story “the stupidest thing we’ve ever done!”

Trace Gallagher attempted to do the story as written, describing how even the military doesn’t know where the satellite will land. However, it’s pretty hard to raise any tension when Smith is pointing out that people are in more danger of “getting struck by lightning four or five times in the next 30 seconds while standing indoors.” And Smith just kept going too, absolutely refusing to take a single word of this seriously.

“If I may, lets move from Present News to Future News. In Future News, somebody says he or she just found a big chunk of space junk and gets all the media cameras out there and then says ‘Baba Booey.’ I mean, this is a walking, talking joke, isn’t it?”

Smith couldn’t stop laughing as he tried to get through the list of every Fox News outlet that would be covering the satellite 24 hours a day for until it hits this Friday and was still joking about “Bus Day USA” a few segments later.

Watch the hilarious clips below: