BBC News Anchor Goes Viral for Showing Overt Disdain During Dog Surfing Segment
.@BBCSimonMcCoy providing all the enthusiasm this story about surfing dogs deserves. pic.twitter.com/FsG8TOj5iF
— Chris Gray (@ChrisGSGray) August 7, 2017
Sometimes newscasters go viral for being overly enthusiastic about the thing they’re covering. Not this time.
BBC News presenter Simon McCoy did a segment on surfing dogs. And he started out by saying, “Bear in mind it is August.”
He delivers lines like “This does not look like a walk in the park” and “the winner, of course, being crowned top dog” in a rather dry manner, and at one point you can hear him audibly sigh.
And Twitter embraced this wonderfully droll moment, including McCoy himself:
Yes. I am. Deal with it.
— Simon McCoy (@BBCSimonMcCoy) August 7, 2017
Well done to @BBCSimonMcCoy for treating show-off dogs with the contempt that they deserve: https://t.co/PJ12RO1Gg1
— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) August 7, 2017
I enjoy both surfing dogs and watching a man’s spirit being brutally crushed before your eyes so this is great content https://t.co/2iC6MeKaWn
— Tom Phillips (@flashboy) August 7, 2017
I came for the surfing dogs, stayed for the existential despair. https://t.co/0SegHzDvOT
— Stig Abell (@StigAbell) August 7, 2017
.@BBCSimonMcCoy is one of the most straightforward journalists I know. This is just another great example of why. https://t.co/4PAEPLKh6R
— Rajini Vaidyanathan (@BBCRajiniV) August 7, 2017
There is contempt for the trivialisation of news, and then there is this by the magnificent @BBCSimonMcCoy https://t.co/jiXPi9Agy8
— Robert Peston (@Peston) August 7, 2017
? @BBCSimonMcCoy is a national treasure https://t.co/gisN1Z5t8U
— Julia Macfarlane?? (@juliamacfarlane) August 7, 2017
"Those are the headlines. God, I wish they weren't"
— Steve Martin (@smartin) August 7, 2017
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