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Natalie Barr and Weekend at Bernie’s

Slightly awkward moment today with a bizarre story about 2 women trying to disguise a dead relative onto a plane and a newsreader who couldn't stop laughing.

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Slightly awkward moment on Sunrise this morning with that bizarre news story about two British women trying to disguise a dead relative aboard a plane Weekend-at-Bernie‘s style.

The two women were arrested for trying to get their deceased 91 yr old relative onto an easyJET flight from Liverpool in a wheelchair and sunglasses, until airport staff wised up. They were later arrested.

In reading the news story this morning Natalie Barr couldn’t hold back her mirth, which drew a number of viewer emails. One read out by David Koch even reckons she “seems to laugh at other people’s expense.”

Thankfully, Sunrise advises it also had a slew of supporting emails:

– Give Nat a break, newsreaders are human and that story was bloody funny!

– Nat you are brilliant. I have never emailed the show but you need to know that segment made my morning. Keep laughing its refreshing in the morning.

– i think its so stupid picking on a news reporter for heavens sakes since when is it a crime to have a good old laugh ?

– I think Natalie Barr did a great job reading the news this morning. I was laughing with her, and thought the story was amusing.

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  1. How can someone look so good when getting up so early every week day for so many years? Natalie Barr, along with being a great news reader you are also a beautiful woman. Long may Nat rule the Sunrise news desk.

  5. I think people need to ease up a bit. This is one of the reasons why the Australia television audience is lame. Obviously no one can take a joke. I found it funny.

    But let me ask this. Did all the balding australian viewers get upset by that guys joke for one of the sunrise tshirts “The bald and the beautiful”.

  8. Viewers were sending in Sunrise ‘slogans’ this morning and one of them was ‘Sorry about Kochie’ – oh man you should have seen his face!

    Mel & Nat were wetting themsleves so of course Kochie had to have a dig at Nat ‘you can’t even read the news without laughing’

    Big baby Kochie lacks a sense of humour me thinks.

  9. Geez, it’s not like she laughed during a report on the road toll or an earthquake. It’s a ridiculous story and i bet those who emailed to complain were laughing during the report themselves.

  11. The thing is the first email is right, she has done stuff like this before and it doesn’t come off as very professional. But I’ve never held that show to a high standard any way.

  13. Watched it twice and laughed both times. Nat is a great newsreader and anyway the whole Sunrise team broke up. No apologies needed. Needless to say some Politically Correct person just had to complain…..

  14. If you can’t find that funny there’s gotta be something wrong with you. She would have had a bunch of crew behind the camera smirking in the lead up to it- there’s no way you couldn’t laugh! Lighten up people

  19. Nat, you don’t need to apologise for Anything! I am so please you show your sense of humour.
    If any one was disrespectful it was his relatives!

  22. There is a huge difference between laughing at a tragic accident or murder, and laughing at an absurd farce of two people carting a dead body around pretending it was still alive. How can that not amuse you? I think we can expect similar giggles about it on the 7PM Project tonight.

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