It must have been a really slow news day for the TV critic of the Buffalo News. 

How slow?

Buffalo News TV critic Alan Pergament wrote and an entire column about how WKBW's Weekend Weather Anchor Don Paul told a bad joke. 

No really.... this happened. 

Pergament writes that Paul had a lot of explaining to do after he said a joke backfired on him Sunday night and led some viewers to believe there was a rift between him and Lia Lando, Channel 7's Sunday news anchor.

"It was an accident," Paul explained Monday of what he acknowledged was a "lame attempt at humor."

According to Paul, it all started with his telling the old joke to Lando.

"Have I ever lied to you before?" said Paul. "Don't answer that question."

Paul, who also writes about the weather for BuffaloNews.com, added that he told that joke often during his 28 years at WIVB before he joined WKBW to everyone from Jacquie Walker to the late Bob Koop.

After telling the joke, Paul proceeded to give his weather forecast. When he finished, Lando responded.

"She said, 'Is it all right for me to answer or talk now?' " explained Paul. "She was referring back to my joke."

Some viewers didn't see it that way; they thought Lando was being disrespectful to Paul and he spent some time explaining to them that was hardly the case.

"People are reading things into it that is not there," Paul said. "I can understand someone might think that if they didn't pay attention to my joke. … We had a great relationship at Channel 4  (Lando worked there years ago) and we do now at Channel 7. We have supernatural chemistry. Honest to goodness, we get along great."

Did he learn a lesson?

"I won't leave a big pause between the punch line and talking to my co-anchor," he said. "It was my poor comic timing."

As you can tell, Buffalo TV news is not exactly the most exciting thing to write about sometimes.