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‘Do you think you could eat beaver?’ Detroit anchor absolutely loses it on live TV

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  • Fox 2 Detroit’s Ryan Ermanni dissolved into uncontrollable laughter after co-anchor Deena Centofanti innocently asked, “Do you think you could eat beaver?”
  • It got worse: Centofanti had already discussed “looking for the fat in the beaver” and declared beaver “the most sought-after.”
  • Ermanni later shared the hilarious clip himself.

There are moments in live television when the teleprompter can’t save you, the producer can’t save you and years of broadcasting experience definitely can’t save you.

Ryan Ermanni found himself in precisely that situation on Fox 2 Detroit’s Good Day Detroit — and all it took was one perfectly innocent question.

“Do you think you could eat beaver?”

Good luck, Ryan.

The conversation began innocently enough Thursday as co-anchor Deena Centofanti talked about History Channel’s survival series Alone, where contestants are dropped into the wilderness and must find their own food.

That means hunting. Fishing. Foraging.

And, sometimes, beaver.

Unfortunately for Ermanni, Centofanti began discussing the subject with the seriousness of someone who apparently had absolutely no idea that nearly every sentence coming out of her mouth was setting a trap from which her co-anchor would never escape.

“And, um, you’re looking for fat in the beaver,” Centofanti explained.

Meteorologist Derek Kevra managed a straight-faced “Yeah.”

Then came another one.

“The beaver is the — the beaver is the most sought-after,” Centofanti continued.

“It is,” Kevra replied.

Ermanni was already beginning to crack.

Then Centofanti turned directly toward him.

“Ryan, would you — do you think you could eat beaver? ’Cause it’s fat and then it’s meat.”

Game over.

Ermanni buried his face in his hands and started laughing so hard he could barely function. At one point all he could manage was, “Oh. Oh, God.”

Centofanti, meanwhile, kept right on discussing wilderness cuisine as though absolutely nothing unusual had happened.

That, of course, only made it funnier.

The New York Post picked up the viral moment early Monday morning, reporting that Ermanni was still trying to regain control of himself as Centofanti moved the conversation along to other wild game.

“What about a moose?” Ermanni finally asked.

“Yeah,” Centofanti answered.

Eventually, the defeated anchor simply surrendered.

“I don’t know. I don’t know anything about this show, Deena, but you’re really funny,” he told her.

“You are a really funny gal.”

Mediaite reported that Ermanni later posted the clip himself, while Centofanti joked on Facebook that “you learn stuff” watching Alone. Apparently, somebody eventually explained to her why the rest of the desk had been struggling to maintain broadcast decorum.

And thank goodness they didn’t explain it beforehand.

Because every now and then television gives us something that isn’t scripted, focus-grouped, poll-tested, politically weaponized or delivered by somebody yelling about the end of democracy.

Sometimes a lady just wants to talk about wilderness survival.

And her co-anchor is 13 years old again.

MY QUICK TAKE:

Folks, there are some questions a grown man is simply not prepared to answer on live morning television.

This was one of them.

The beautiful part is watching poor Ryan desperately attempt to remain a professional journalist while every remaining functioning cell in his brain is screaming, “DO NOT LAUGH.”

Then Deena keeps going.

“Looking for the fat…”

Ryan, hang in there.

“The most sought-after…”

Ryan, NO.

“Do you think you could eat…”

And we have lost Ryan.

Completely.

I don’t care what your politics are. I don’t care whether you’re Republican, Democrat, MAGA, socialist or currently hiding in the woods competing on Alone.

That is funny.

Sometimes television still delivers.

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