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Posted by: Bradley McDonald

Generally, the only thing I watch on TV is sports, but my girlfriend would say that even that is too much, especially during football season where I generally spend hours every Sunday watching football. This guy has me smoked, though! 69 straight hours in front of a TV set. Wow.

Suresh Joachim broke the Guinness world record for the longest time spent watching TV. He finished Friday with 69 hours and 48 minutes.

After passing the previous record of 50 hours and 7 minutes Thursday, Joachim continued until shortly after 7 a.m. Friday morning (EDT).

Joachim did his TV viewing in the lobby of WABC-TV as part of the "Guinness World Record Breaker Week" on the syndicated "Live With Regis and Kelly."

It appears that Suresh is a professional record breaker, but at least he does it for a good cause.

Joachim, who lives in Toronto but hails from Sri Lanka, now holds more than 16 Guinness records, including the longest duration balancing on one foot (76 hours, 40 minutes) and bowling for 100 hours. He does it, he says, to raise awareness of suffering children.