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This JD Vance handshake didn’t go entirely to plan and it’s surely the most embarrassing greeting you’ll ever see

This Spanish speed walker’s premature celebration was a salutary lesson for us all (and so painfully funny)

The BBC cut to Keely Hodgkinson’s family and friends watching the Olympics and it was a hilariously unfortunate fail

Bad day? Could be worse, you could be putting up this cabinet

People loved this BBC newsreader’s response to an autocue cock-up and it just gets better and better

The sound of this dog emptying its guts during this very important Zoom call is today’s funniest 19 seconds

The pratfall was already good but the hilarious ‘airbag’ moment was simply epic

This hilarious (and NSFW) voice to text fail is a salutary lesson for multitaskers everywhere

Martin Daubney lost the news again on GB News and it’s 24 seconds well spent

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

This tale of a homemade Christmas card gone hilariously wrong is an evergreen festive classic

If only they’d invented spellcheck for decals

The best thing about that BBC News middle finger fail was the eye-popping rage of these anti-BBC blowhards

BBC News reader Maryam Moshiri explained how that unfortunate middle finger happened and it made people love it even more

This magnificent BBC News fail finally gave us something in the news to smile about – all our favourite reactions here