NEW YORK - As the red light switched off and her program went into a commercial, Laura Ingraham's face dissolved from a smile into a frown - then, a look of pure disgust.

In a nine-minute video clip of on-set behavior at Fox News Channel, Ingraham radiates hate at everyone around her. There's a word misspelled on her teleprompter, her script makes no sense, a stranger hanging around annoys her, a producer is talking too loudly in her earpiece.

“Oh, my God,” she says. “This is a train wreck.”

It wasn't the only locomotive going off the rails, particularly after comic Harry Shearer posted the visual evidence on his Internet channel last month and it spread virally across the Web.

Shearer's “Found Objects,” a semi-regular feature of the “My Damn Channel” Web site, is a place where news personalities don't want to find themselves.

His videos capture them in that television netherworld: on set or on location but before (they might think) the cameras are rolling. It's the time that obsessions about hairstyles or worries that they've done their homework surface.

If anyone should realize that the camera is never really off, it's the people who make their living in front of it. When they forget, Shearer has his material.

The first posting last fall was an excruciating 17-minute video of former CBS News anchor Dan Rather on a chilly rooftop in Seattle, obsessing over whether to wear an overcoat during a standup, or whether the coat's collar should be turned up or down.

“Some people collect coins,” said Rob Barnett, a former MTV Networks executive who's president of My Damn Channel. “I collect vinyl albums. Harry collects this footage.”