Close to Home by John McPherson for July 07, 2021

Well at least Dale is already done with the ice breaker LOL. It doesn’t get much more embarrassing than that.

Years ago the exact same thing happened to a facilitator at an EST session I attended. The audience could hear everything!!!

A true whizard with modern technology!

Seen it happen a few times…at church!

Although the sound system looks like it is so old it would never have a wireless mic but ok…

As live event sound mixers, we are trained to never let that happen. I might hear it in my headphones (God forbid!)…but the lapel mic audio is absolutely not going to make it to the audience monitors until the speaker returns!!! (Otherwise it’s curtains for me!)

Just a minute. Oh, Yea. There is always one more after you stand up.

Happens to guys (and gals) miked up to do commercials too.

Not the worst thing caught on a hot mike…

I recall that happening, and there was a Supreme Court hearing where you heard a flush.

I believe that happened to Leslie Nielsen in one of the “Naked Gun” movies.

And if he had gas…..whew!

Way too close to home!

I take it that the joke is “way too much coffee”. There’s no such thing.

Too much information! Oy

And that’s why you don’t piss off the sound guy.

It’s even more embarrassing during a zoom meeting.

Lt. Frank Drebin made the same mistake.

More bathroom humor- some people never get tired of it.

And suddenly, everyone had to ‘go’…

Gatorade Bottles, just outside of view of the web cam in Zoom Meetings…..

… and then,

“La-la-leeee! nyuk-nyuk-nyuk! woooop-woop-woop-woop! Man, I can do a pretty good Curly when I want to! I guess I oughta get back in there before those morons start to miss me …. wait… is this thing….”

Had this happen once when I was videotaping a presenter, luckily it wasn’t over the PA, just my recording setup.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZR-irUd494

At least he didn’t express his disdain for the audience like the urban legend wrongly attributed to Uncle Don..:

have taken more than one important call in the bathroom. Regretted it every time. Some smart az always has to flush or air dry his hands to ashes.

That happened in the first Naked Gun movie.

It could have been a lot worse if he had too many prunes for breakfast.

I can imagine MUCH worse things to come over the PA system. I don’t even consider this to be embarrassing.

That’s what happens when that lady in heaven from yesterday’s strip left the coffeemaker on.

My son forgot he had his GoPro on his ski helmet when went into the men’s room at a ski slope. He could under stand why he was getting weird looks, because that little red light was on……..

The joke was old the first time this ran.

Old Playboy cartoon from one of the political conventions that had camera men wandering about with live cameras transmitting constantly. One is walking out of the men’s room with the camera hanging down from his neck. Coworkers are running up to him saying “John, your creepy-peepy is turned on!”

COME ON NOW!!! Leslie Nielsen did this gag in The Naked Gun about 50 years ago!!!

https://youtu.be/pdE83FX-Mto