ABOVE: Watch Damnit Maurie read a TelePrompTer in the ET Canada studio.
TORONTO — Reading a TelePrompTer is not as easy as the professionals make it look. Just ask Toronto radio producer Damnit Maurie — if you can stop laughing long enough.
The KiSS 92.5 personality, whose real name is Maurie Sherman, sat at the ET Canada anchor desk with Roz Weston to realize his dream of reading a TelePrompTer.
“The best in the business do this,” Sherman explained, “and I figure how hard can it be?”
Weston, an ET Canada host and co-host of The Roz and Mocha Show on KiSS 92.5, wondered if Sherman is normally a good reader.
“No,” Sherman replied. “In my head, but I don’t think that would work here.”
With words like “ubiquitous” and “labourious” in the script, Sherman was quickly tongue-tied. (Then again, he also managed to fumble the word “former.”)
“Do those words exist?,” an incredulous Sherman asks.
Weston is seen doing his best not to burst out laughing.
Giggling Sherman’s face quickly goes from blazer pink to beet red. But there was no stopping him — literally. He even read out a cue to cut to a clip.
“You don’t read that part,” Weston instructed him.
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