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This thieving parrot’s perfectly timed appearance during a piece to camera on an increase in robberies is an all-time great live TV moment

Hugh Bonneville was asked about Downton Abbey but wanted to talk Gaza instead and the reporter’s face is an absolute picture

A clip of two talk show hosts trying to interpret a caller’s Irish accent is still in the top ten accidental comedy gold moments

Flashback to the spiciest innuendo ever cooked up on Saturday Kitchen – when live TV goes deliciously wrong

Probably the funniest use of a mascot costume you’ll see today

The background action turned this road safety interview into an all-time classic of live telly

Watch this minister get the giggles as he briefs the press about an ‘amorous couple’ causing Melbourne station flooding

This eye-in-the-sky reporter’s speeding motorcycle commentary was even more entertaining before he realised he was live

Watch this weather presenter get upstaged by the cheekiest of golden retrievers

Tory Oddities, Episode 6,549 – Grant Shapps rings Sky News as they predict he’ll lose his seat (and promptly hangs up)

This BBC News reporter was mistaken for a member of staff live on air and his fabulous response is today’s funniest thing

That countdown by BBC newsreader Maryam Moshiri has been released – and it’s even better than the middle finger snippet

GB News absolutely nailed this breaking news sequence – if the goal was chaos

This reporter wasn’t so keen on the hot dog he bit into on air and it’s a hilariously uncomfortable watch

This attempted live report was so shambolic it was peak GB News