It's a video so thoroughly perfect that, had Oscar Wilde lived to see it, one suspects he would have rethought his belief that life imitates art.

This morning, on BBC News, a very serious interview with professor Robert Kelly about South Korea was interrupted by the antics of his young daughter. And then his baby son. And then his wife.

The video has gone viral faster than the interview went south – and rightly so. Every beat in its short, 47-second lifespan is on the money – a perfectly scripted comedy of errors.

Surely no art is as good as this ...

1. The entirely serious opening