“What better time to ask the sports guy to come in about five hours earlier than he would normally wake up, go stand out in the wind and the snow and the cold and tell other people not to do the same?” Mr. Woodley told Ryan Witry, an anchor who was back in the warm, dry studio.pic.twitter.com/h0RL9tVQqg — Mark Woodley (@MarkWoodleyTV) December 22, 2022“Tune into the show for the next couple hours to watch me get progressively crankier and crankier,” he said, before bemoaning missing an assignment that would have kept him inside a car.In an interview, Mr. Woodley, who has worked at KWWL on and off for 20 years, said that the previous 24 hours had “been insane” and that the response had been overwhelmingly positive, including from his employer.I love it because it’s something new for me, but I never saw anything like this coming.”Mr. Woodley said he did 14 live stand-ups over the course of three and a half hours but selected the funniest parts to splice together “like a trailer for a terrible comedy” and post on social media.Mr. Woodley managed to talk his way out of doing a second round of coverage on Friday morning and instead planned to return to his regular 6 p.m. time slot to preview the Music City Bowl in which the University of Iowa will play the University of Kentucky in Nashville next weekend."