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        <title><![CDATA[TV anchors, on-air guests go pantsless during broadcasts from home]]></title>
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Television personalities are trying to get to the bottom of the coronavirus broadcasts — by not wearing any.</p><p>A video montage compiled by John Oliver&#8217;s &#8220;Last Week Tonight&#8221; contains dozens of clips of local news anchors across the country asking colleagues and guests on-air, &#8220;Are you wearing pants?&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;I do have pants on. You&#8217;re just going to have to take my word on that because I&#8217;m not standing up,&#8221; a bespectacled, shirt-and-tie-wearing TV guest quipped as part of the &#8220;Last Week Tonight&#8221; compilation, which aired Sunday on HBO.</p><p>The question of the day — or the week, or the month — rings true with viewers around the world working from home as fears over the coronavirus have closed offices, schools and other organizations.</p><p>And we have one definitive answer: Las Vegas Now anchor JC Fernandez, who made the &#8220;Last Week Tonight&#8221; montage, <strong>shared a clip</strong> with his own viewers and revealed what was going on down under.</p><p>&#8220;At home, I do wear pants — but here right now, I got no pants on,&#8221; Fernandez admits.</p><p>Oliver, 42, seems to be embracing work-from-home life, too. Upon the conclusion of his half-hour show filmed from his apartment, the seemingly suited host stood up from behind a table to reveal shorts covered in a pattern of Grovers from &#8220;Sesame Street.&#8221;</p><p>He&#8217;s not the only famous face who ditched trousers for TV. This week, actor John Krasinski&#8217;s new YouTube show, &#8220;Some Good News,&#8221; featured <strong>a surprise group video performance by the &#8220;Hamilton&#8221; cast</strong> for a 9-year-old girl who was supposed to see the Broadway show for her birthday. At the end of the 16-minute episode, 40-year-old Krasinski, clad in a white button-down shirt, tie and jacket, got up from behind a desk to reveal a tutu on his lower half.</p><figure id="attachment_15443498"  class="wp-caption alignnone aligncenter"><strong><noscript><img data- data-src="/uploads/2020/04/some-good-news-01.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" /><noscript><img  data-src="/uploads/2020/04/some-good-news-01.jpg" /></noscript></noscript><img class="lazyload" src='data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22%20viewBox=%220%200%20210%20140%22%3E%3C/svg%3E' data- data-src="/uploads/2020/04/some-good-news-01.jpg" /></strong><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><span>John Krasinski wears a suit on his top half during a broadcast from home of his new show, &#8220;Some Good News.&#8221; On his bottom half? A red tutu.</span><span class="credit">YouTube</span></figcaption></figure><p>Even Stephen Colbert is getting in on the no-pants trend. On the March 31 episode of &#8220;The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,&#8221; the 55-year-old <strong>discussed</strong> producing a show from home with fellow host Oliver, comparing notes on attire while taping.</p><blockquote><p>Colbert: How is your personal hygiene? Are you wearing pants these days?</p><p>Oliver: What kind of pants? What&#8217;s the bar for pants now?</p><p>Colbert: Big-boy pants. Long pants.</p><p>Oliver: I&#8217;m wearing sweatpants</p><p>(Oliver stands up to show off a dark pair with zippered pockets.)</p><p>Colbert: Oh, that&#8217;s not bad.</p><p>Oliver: And they are stained with baby drool and peanut butter. So, could be worse.</p><p>Colbert: Perfect, perfect. I&#8217;m wearing a suit, but I&#8217;m not wearing shoes.</p><p>(Colbert lifts up a bare foot to the camera.)</p></blockquote><p>The lighthearted exchange proves that careful camera placement means that a participant on Zoom, Skype or Google Hangouts can look professional up top, groomed and dressed in a suit or other work-appropriate attire, all while letting it all hang out where no one can see from the waist down.</p><p>The no-pants movement is even affecting shopping habits. Last week, Walmart reported <strong>an increase in sales of tops — not pants</strong> — during the coronavirus lockdown.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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