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Newsflash: Bill McDonald has a sense of humour

Bill McDonald makes a funny on social media but gets slapped by print media.

2013-02-01_1700New Seven News recruit Bill McDonald is in the news himself today for apparently “sharing a grubby picture on Facebook.”

That’s according to News Limited.

The photo was from humour website Meanwhile in Australia which specialises in “taking the piss out of all things Australian and being able to laugh at ourselves.”

Presumably the pic concerned is this striking landscape formation that does amusingly resemble genitalia….

“It really is a wide brown land down there!” McDonald wrote on Facebook.

Sure it may not be the smartest move when you’ve just been hired as Seven’s new Brisbane co-anchor…. the golden rule of comedy is after all, timing.

Truth be told he made a bigger gaffe on air earlier this week during the floods coverage when he told viewers, “Welcome back to TEN’s rolling coverage.”

Oops.

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  1. One wonders if News Limited would be so critical if he were still with TEN?
    “Has landed in hot water”. Where? Details?
    “A TV insider has described McDonald’s Facebook post as “an offensive, sniggering pub-type joke”. Who? Which network? But Seven would appreciate the publicity for their new news anchor, as many would be unaware he was on Seven.
    OMG, don’t make a comment about the size of female Asian doctors’ fingers. My cousin (a female Asian doctor) failed to see anything wrong, laughed at the suggestion by TM, and laughed even louder at the political “outrage”, . Seven’s “no comment” has been spun into “Seven failed to defend him”. How much really interesting, important news was spiked so this drivel could be run? Oh, forgot, it’s The Telegraph, so there wouldn’t be any really interesting, important news.

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