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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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John Plunkett

You're listening to BBC Radio Giggle, sorry, Radio 4

If you are in need of a little light relief today - and who isn't? - click here. There's nothing like a TV or radio presenter getting a fit of the giggles to inspire a few smiles. Especially when the presenter is Charlotte Green and the programme is BBC Radio 4's Today.

It was the "worst corpsing I have ever heard", according to one of my colleagues on mediatheguardian.com.

I'm not so sure. Is it better - or worse, depending on your point of view - than Brian Johnston and Jonathan Agnew's infamous "couldn't quite get his leg over" on Test Match Special in 1991?

Green can reassure herself that she is not alone. Here is BBC Radio 2 newsreader John Marsh struggling over a story about a chap with a firework up his backside, while even Natasha Kaplinsky is not immune from a minor fit of the giggles. Maybe Channel Five had just told her how much it was going to pay her.

At the risk of turning into It'll Be All Right On The Night, here are some more classics on what I'm sorely tempted to call the "giggle vault" - Terry Wogan loses it, also on Radio 2; an MP who finds no end of amusement in the phrase "short sea shipping"; from the US, a newsreader who loves it when a model falls over; and a chap from New Zealand who I find more irritating than funny.

If you are still not satisfied - I know I'm not - here are lots more comedy clips from the Today programme.. They call them the "blunder clips". Not as good as "giggle vault", eh?

Now I'm not entirely sure about this one, but at least Green didn't do this. Or this. That really would have caused a stink.

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