Harry Shearer reads the BBC post-nuclear attack statement

[88enri88]

NOW AT GALAXY RADIO!!!

[Blackdragon52k]

Its horrific when you think about it. I mean to most of us nowadays the threat of Nuclear attack seems like something out of a movie that could never happen. The idea of something that horrific and of that magnitude of absolute destruction just seems so unreal. The reality of the whole possibility and just how close we came as a species in general to something like this is just absolutley horrifying.

[NimrodMR4A]

Ahahahaa, Its Dr. Hibbert!! XD

[jazzx251]

Lol - that was pathetic.

[Lessinath]

the EMP factor is overrated. The distance at which electronics are actually fried by one as opposed to just having their lifetime greatly shortened (months instead of years after the EMP) is less than the blast radius of many of the nuclear weapons that produce it.

[SCE2AUX]

"Our country is permanently in the shitter now and we're being told so by a Yank?"

[zionravescene]

"Hello, good evening and REMAIN INDOORS!"

[YawFuthaMucka]

I reckon Hugh Dennis should've read it out. Just keep it brief and to the point - " You are going to die, you are going to die. That is all! " I wouldve felt so much better :)

[intercomsec]

Actually EMP has no effect on car batteries, what it does affect are semiconductors. Valves, or for our American allies tubes, are also virtually unaffected. Also there is no such thing as an EMP weapon at least in specific practical terms. All nuclear weapons produce some EMP effects.

[Professor6871]

@intercomsec Rubbish there is an EMP weapon where have you got your info from wikipedia?

[Ralastar]

What an idiot

[luvu2luvme]

it just goes to prove the lies the government would tell us if this happened,water would be tainted,no running water in taps anyway,rooves and walls would offer no protection from radiation,stay calm???? really?? get away, atleast 100 miles from all major cities.

[EdOscuro]

@luvu2luvme

Better to wait as long as you can so that fallout has a chance to settle down, unless you heard this immediately after I guess. I would say get upwind of the nearest city (i.e. west, for much of the continental United States) as the first step. But if you go somewhere looking for shelter (again against fallout) and it's not there, you're worse off than if you had stayed put...

[ArmoredSaint848]

lol, " Hi I'm Kent Brockman reporting live from BBC"

[Professor6871]

Academic seeing that one EMP detanation at high altitude, over the UK, would have rendered all unprotected radios, TVs and car batteries usesless over most of North West Europe. That weapon would have been the first to have been used before the main missiles arrived. Even the US TV film Day After showed this would of happened before the main strike had taken place.

[dutchgoing]

Sounds like Nixon. Cronkite was an honest man. 

[Athanatizein]

This is the death you have forgotten.

[MrJacMac1986]

thats if you have a home left with walls and a roof

[stickmanpwner64]

What if somebody turned on the radio right when he started reading it? 0_o....

[MateiAlexandruBogdan]

@stickmanpwner64 What is radio? Some new form of twitter?

[MasterJediKyleKatarn]

The funny part is nobody would ever hear that broadcast if a nuclear war happened. Most of the population would be D E A D.

[zionravescene]

Eeeeeexcellent.

[BARRIEMOREBARLOW]

Genius, as usual.

[wisteela]

Like it.

[Petemonster62]

Good impression of ' ol Walter!

[phillip549]

hes good

[plusplusplusplusp]

He sounds like Richard Nixon.

[m1049]

couldn't he have done it in a Kent Brockman voice?

[edybeast]

@m1049 Or Monty Burns' voice.

[kisbie]

@m1049 I'd like him to have done an opposite version in his Kang voice.

[johnson1095]

@m1049

at least then i'd go out laughing

[Punax]

For this kind of matters of life and death, can they write it in plain language? Like "if you don't stay home you will die"

[Sot4muumi]

@Punax That could bring about shock regarding relatives, loved ones etc. that are not in "safety" of home, and people could go outside looking to save them or something.

[wheelsofwonder]

A great parody of Walter. and the words are indeed the recently-released script by the BBC for use in the event of an atatck.

[Hontodesu]

Is this really parody?

[mediamonarchy]

harry's been to the bohemian grove, along w/ walter cronkite...