by Will Conley

We swear on all the graves of all our ancestors that the videos in this post will make you laugh.

On August 17, 2011 the revered and dignified CNN news anchor Anderson Cooper completely broke down in a fit of giggles during a live broadcast of the Anderson Cooper 360 news show. The stimulus: his own pun-laden script about French actor Gerard Depardieu’s recent performance art piece Man Intentionally Pissing in Airplane Aisle While Airplane Taxis on Runway.

Cooper regressed to an earlier stage of his personal maturation halfway through the grade school humor news piece, giggling sporadically despite his best efforts, and mostly regained his professional composure by the end.

We laughed right along with him. There is something so contagious about people laughing in situations when they are firmly expected to not laugh at all. That must be why we love video clips of television news anchors just letting go and losing it.

In the spirit of Anderson Cooper’s less evolved side, we present to you our lucky seven favorite videos of news anchors from around the world, cracking up over stupid things.

Note: We fully realize this has been done before — compiling funny videos of news anchors — but we find that way too many of them are just plain uncomfortable. We’re not here to look at stuff that makes our stomachs turn somersaults and our conscience attack our minds with pitchforks. No. These videos are just good, clean fun. For a change. (Don’t worry, we won’t make a habit of it.)

First, we go to Germany…

If you need to have this article explained to you in paragraph form before the examples are listed, you should leave now, because there’s no help for you. Now that those morons are out of the way, let’s get to the awesome

by Will Conley

"OK, one pack of You Fat Dead Loser and a Neck Hole 100s box. That'll be $22.50."

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced this month that starting in September all cigarette packs must feature graphic images of the negative health effects of smoking. The images must cover at least half the pack on both front and back.

They depict, among other nastiness, a sewn-up corpse, crying women and children, and the obligatory rotting lung and mouth shots — the go-to jerk-off material for temperance fetishists and zombie buffs. Here are all nine of the grisly new warning labels, courtesy of the FDA…

Dubai has always surprised the world with its amazingly tall buildings and wondrous constructions. Most of you have probably seen the Burj Al Arab; it’s the world’s most luxurious hotel and is noticeably shaped like the sail of a ship. Well, did you know that situated atop this glorious building is a tennis court?