The gaffe occurred when Professor Robert Kelly was being interviewed live about the current political climate in South Korea and the removal of their President, Park Geun-hye.
In the middle of addressing the presenter’s very serious questions via a webcam interview, Robert – who is the Professor of Political Science at Pusan National University in South Korea – was interrupted as his adorable toddler came bursting into the room for some attention.
Robert, visibly stressed by the awkward gatecrashing, tried to blindly push the child back out of the shot only for a baby to come waddling in after their elder sibling.
The BBC interviewer tried to keep the laughter out of his voice as he acknowledged the children before a very flustered woman came rushing into the room, trying and failing to be inconspicuous by crouching down.
She quickly grabbed both children and hurried them out before lunging back to slam the door behind them.
Robert made a valiant effort to soldier on through the interview but just could not keep his concentration with all the action going on behind him.
Once the crisis had been averted, he stifled a laugh saying: “My apologies, sorry.”
He then closed his eyes as he regained composure for a second before continuing on with the interview.
BBC shared the hysterical video with their 1 million subscribers on YouTube, and a tweet from BBC News (World) containing the clip has already been retweeted over 3,000 times despite only being posted an hour ago.
Viewers were left in fits of laughter by the hilarious interview, with one person taking to Twitter to say: “I am rolling on the floor! Loved the way the second child waddled in on her baby chair followed by a shocked rescuer.”
Another commented: “He was trying so hard not to laugh,” and another said: “Dude stiff armed his kid without breaking his steely, unflinching camera gaze. What the what.”
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