Harry Shearer reads the BBC post-nuclear attack statement

25 years ago, the BBC drafted a statement to be broadcast in the event of nuclear attack. We asked Harry Shearer, the voice of The Simpsons' newsreader Kent Brockman, to offer us his interpretation of the statement. So he did it in the style of seminal 1970s newscaster Walter Cronkite... and here's the result.

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Comedy

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• harry
• shearer
• spoof
• simpsons
• walter
• cronkite
• impression
• kent
• brockman
• radio
• 5live
• parody
• nuclear
• attack

[m1049]

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

[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?

[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.

[johnson1095]

@m1049

at least then i'd go out laughing

[kisbie]

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

[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!"