Comedy in a crisis
Business Daily
BBC
4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2020
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
From marauding goats to comedy dance routines in gardens, Business Daily’s Vivienne Nunis takes a look at the memes and videos helping many of us get through uncertain times. Why does seeing the lighter side of life matter? We hear from some of the content creators, such as Joe Tracini, whose dances – including the now infamous “sexy kitten” move - have been shared tens of millions of times, to stress management coach and advocate of laughter Loretta LaRoche, business expert and entrepreneur Margaret Heffernan, and Business Daily’s old friend, comedian Colm O’Regan.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on Business Daily, we're learning bad dance routines from the internet. |
| 0:06.0 | Say poor, change, kit, roll. |
| 0:10.0 | Sexy kitten, reverse the one, reverse the one. |
| 0:13.8 | And following a rogue goat herd as it takes over a small Welsh village. |
| 0:19.4 | Yep, we're looking at content that's taken the internet by storm |
| 0:22.9 | during the coronavirus pandemic. Is this the meme's greatest moment yet? A few goats running around |
| 0:29.7 | a town and taking over when humans are not around anymore. That's the light relief we all need. |
| 0:36.4 | We love it. |
| 0:43.2 | And as many of us work from home, why sharing humour with colleagues remotely can be more important than you might think. People get enormous value from the social relationships and the |
| 0:50.0 | social atmosphere at work. And so when they don't have it, as they don't now, they really |
| 0:55.8 | miss it. That's all coming up, a lighter look at what's keeping us laughing during difficult |
| 1:01.5 | days. Business Daily with me, Vivian Nunes from the BBC. |
| 1:10.3 | Okay. Hi, I'm Andrew Stewart. I am now the premier goat correspondent, I think kind of |
| 1:18.0 | unofficial for North Wales and the world. Yep, Andrew reports on goats. Not normally, of course. |
| 1:26.2 | Usually he's a reporter and video producer for the Manchester |
| 1:29.3 | Evening News. But during the lockdown, he's been in Wales, documenting a herd of wild goats |
| 1:35.5 | gradually encroaching on his parents' village. Andrew's been sharing that footage with the world |
| 1:41.6 | via Twitter. So far, his goats have attracted 33 million page impressions. |
| 1:48.9 | It's not often we get to cover goats gone wild on Business Daily, |
| 1:53.3 | so we called him up to hear the shaggy tale. |
| 1:55.9 | It was one night when you look out of a pub window, |
| 2:00.6 | which is definitely how all the best stories start. |
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