Laughing on the radio is like laughing in church – you know you shouldn’t give in to the giggles, but that only makes it worse. Jim Naughtie had a brilliant one this morning, inadvertently turning Jeremy Hunt’s surname into a bad, bad word that makes David Cameron’s Twitter comment pale by comparison:

Perhaps the best thing about it was Naughtie’s desperate attempts to resist the giggles after dropping his bomb, before claiming it was a “coughing fit. Fans of the BBC’s old sitcom Coupling will know that this is known as the Giggle Loop.

My favourite attack of the Radio 4 Giggle Loop was suffered by Charlotte Green, when the bizarre sound of the oldest recording of a human voice clashed with a very sombre obituary:

Tags: BBC, Coupling, Jeremy Hunt, Jim Naughtie, Radio 4, Spoonerism, The Giggle Loop, Today Programme, Videos

Categories: Opinion, Politics

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One Response

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   Dick Puddlecote:

   It was dead funny and perfectly understandable. I’d just love to know who these brittle people are who become so very ‘offended’ by a fraction of a second of sound.

   What’s more, that some felt so ‘offended’ as to e-mail the show. As Steve Hughes said (funny, Mark, you should watch it), “so what if you’re offended, nothing happens. You’re an adult, grow up, deal with it.”.

   06.12.2010 19:09 Reply