Commentary: Once millions have seen your kids interrupt a live Skype interview, everyone has an opinion. And a joke.
He surely never imagined how the interview would go.
He wasn’t seeking fame.
Now he’s lumped with it, and all the delicacies that come along for the ride.
Professor Robert Kelly of Pusan National University in South Korea is now the most celebrated political science expert in the world.
It’s not his insights — which I’m sure are deeply thought out. It’s the fact that his two kids interrupted a Skype interview he was conducting with the BBC on Friday.
His wife tried to grab them back and the whole thing turned into the best sort of performance art — the sort none of the participants saw coming.
More than 7 million people have now seen the YouTube video posted by the BBC. On Saturday, it was still the No. 1 trending video on YouTube.
Which means that there are at least 8 million opinions about why it went haywire and about every element of Kelly’s actions during the brief segment.
Let’s pause first for the parodies, though. It was inevitable there would be some. One of the more polished came from YouTube comedian Kevin Fredericks , who offered the bonus of the professor being replaced by a child.
