Robert Kelly, an expert on Korea, gets a surprise visit from his children when being interviewed live on the BBC
Professor Robert Kelly, an expert on Korean politics, became an instant celebrity this week thanks to an unscheduled interruption during a live interview on BBC News.
The Professor was discussing the impeachment of South Korea's president Park Geun-hye when his young daughter appeared in the background in his study.
Footageof the interview appeared on Twitter and quickly went viral, with viewers around the world reveling in the near-perfect comic timing of the interruptions.
The video of Professor Robert Kelly's two children gatecrashing the #BBC interview has made my week! TV Gold :) pic.twitter.com/91gsV9e4LE
However, this being the internet in 2017, all the untrammeled joy couldn't continue for long before naysayers started chiming in to point out that the clip was, in fact, bad and wrong, and not funny like you thought, you idiot.
Critics pointed disapprovingly to the way Professor Kelly tried to push his daughter away:
