Heir Apparent To Merry Miller's Legacy Thinks John Cusack Is Kevin Spacey

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The Triumphant Return Of Merry Miller, Perpetrator Of The Worst Interview In TV History

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ABC News Now Ready To Laugh About The Merry Miller Debacle

Now that a week has passed since the viral proliferation of novice ABC News Now correspondent Merry Miller's inept interrogation of infinitely patient actress Holly Hunter, ABC is finally ready to share in the laughter enjoyed by untold millions of YouTube viewers, today running a lengthy explanation of the circumstances that transformed a simple satellite chat into (in their words) The Interview Seen Around the World. (We've helpfully re-embedded the clip above so that you can refresh your memory.) The fun began when Miller's ear piece, which normally would allow her to digest each of her subject's carefully considered words on how she came to play such an interesting character and respond with a thoughtful follow-up recognizing the scarcity of good roles for actresses of a certain age, failed: More »

Finally, some details about the series of events that led up to ABC News contributor Merry Miller's amusingly inept interview of Holly Hunter. We had a feeling that a Teleprompter malfunction would figure in the explanation. [TV Newser via Gawker]

Crain's fills us in on the background of viral video's newest breakout star, Merry Miller, the NBC News ABC News personality whose appealingly botched interview of Holly Hunter will probably live on in the YouTubes long after we're all dead: "The same gumption that got Merry Miller a gig playing harp in a Dallas club when she was only 14 allows her to talk celebrities like Harrison Ford, P. Diddy and Joe Torre into teaching courses at The Learning Annex. The former Miss Dallas, who grew up in tiny Mesquite, Texas, has a list of contacts that's the envy of networking professionals all over town." [Crain's]