A life-sized, cardboard cutout of a bear from Cleveland appeared on NBC's Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, along with Todd Meany of Fox 8 News, early this morning. Todd Meany appeared in a video clip, running through a wooded area with the cardboard bear held in front of himself, much to the amusement of Jimmy Fallon and the studio audience.
Several months ago, a black bear strolled through a Moreland Hills neighborhood -- a newsworthy event in the Cleveland area. Fox8 News sent a crew to cover the bear sighting but naturally the bear was long gone by the time the news crew arrived on the scene.
Lacking a bear, reporter Todd Meany and the crew improvised by borrowing a life-sized cardboard cutout of a bear from a nearby nature center. On camera, Meany ran with the cardboard cutout and then walked the cardboard stand-in up a tree trunk.
Meany's comment, "This is what the bear probably looked like ... except real," is the best quote in the video.
The Fox8 report ran last April and amused multiple viewers enough that they posted it on YouTube.
The Meany-powered cardboard bear appeared again this morning on the September 2nd edition of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, and Fallon himself was considerably amused -- rubbing his eyes and laughing on camera. Meany and the cardboard cutout figured prominently in Late Night's Remix the Clips segment in the wee hours this AM.
Fox8's morning news team, of which Todd Meany is a member, congratulated Meany today on his national appearance, replayed the original clip, and closed with Late Night's Remix the Clips. The video from April is attached here.
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So ... Fox 8 News congratulated him for being mocked as an idiot on national television? Because the only thing that made that clip funny was that Todd Meany is supposed to be a reporter and that was not news, it was ridiculous. We were laughing AT him, not with him.
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