It can be slightly excruciating for the viewer even just watching television presenters becoming helpless with a fit of the giggles, but when this happens to three different people at the same time, and when a particularly sensitive subject is being discussed, then it's perhaps not something to be enjoyed, but it's car crash television nonetheless - you just can't help watching it.
Thus on last night's Sky News paper review the Mirror's Kevin Maguire introduced a piece from the Express about a possible advance in medicine by saying that the science was coming on in "leaps and bounds". Unfortunately the article is about stem cell research and how it might help paralysed people walk again. Whether his unfortunate pun was deliberate or not, Maguire immediately noted that it wasn't the best choice of words, and his co-reviewer also remarked upon it, but by this time both the journalists and the presenter had dissolved into fits of giggles and seemed unable to compose themselves.
Thankfully the Daily Mail's Andrew Pierce eventually managed to get things back on an even keel, but no doubt there will be a few complaints about this. Now, where's that YouTube video? I can't find it.
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