Jolt Country

Announcer: WKZ-DT Channel 10, Zenith, Winnemac. It's the 6:00 news, with Chandra Levy and Davis El-Basura.
Chandra: Good Evening, I'm Chandra Levy; Davis has the night off. Our Lead story: A six-year-old boy was released off a school bus this afternoon. The boy, whose name is not being released, was on the correct bus when the bus driver, arriving at the stop nearest the child's home, released the child who walked home without incident.

Nadir County Unified School District administrators have stated that releasing the child without a parent at the stop was a serious breach of administrative regulations. We now have scenes of what could have happened:
Viewer 1: (Watches scene with face dropping in horror) Oh God! That's terrible!
Chandra: Or this could have happened:
Viewer 1: (Turns away from TV) Holy Christ!
Viewer 2: Ewww! (Picks up wastebasket, begins vomiting into it)
Viewer 1: We gotta change the channel! (Picks up remote, presses button)
Announcer: And now, this Channel 8 exclusive: Does the Channel 10 news cause Cancer? Our Lyle Marham has this report!

Oh my god.

I approve of you using the purple names to note that people are speaking. Let's have more of that in 2011.

We DO do that here.

Did anyone think my item was funny?

It was the lead story on the evening news one day last year. Kid got on the right bus, was driven to the stop near his house, the bus driver let him off, and the kid walked home without incident, and because one of the kid's parents wasn't at the bus stop the school board treated it like he dropped the kid off at his local "Child Molesters R Us" store.

No, they didn't show any graphic footage of what might have happened, that was my sight gag. I'm parodying the tendency of news to inflame the public. Twice.

Tdarcos wrote:Did anyone think my item was funny?

No. At first, it wasn't a joke because human beings need some context to understand something as funny. Later, your details helped but then it was too late because jokes are never funny if you have to explain them.

Fail.