Former FBI Director James Comey was in Los Angeles talking to FBI employees when the TV in the room delivered the news that he’d been fired. “He immediately thought it was a prank, and a pretty funny one at that,” says The Week. But no one else was laughing.
His staff knew it wasn’t a joke, and told Comey to wrap it up and join them in a private office. He stopped, shook hands with the employees he had been addressing, and then joined his staff, who confirmed he had been fired.