This hilarious video of a dad failing to record a 20 second greeting for his son’s 40th is making everyone’s day better

John Plunkett. Updated January 8th, 2021

Here’s a minute and a half to make your day better, a video shared by @paulmcdonnell88 of his dad trying to record a 40th birthday greeting for Paul’s brother who lives in Australia.

It’s fair to say it didn’t go entirely to plan, and it’s all the better for it …

Dad had to record a 20 sec video over Christmas for my brothers 40th as he lives in Oz, it took over 7 minutes because he couldn’t get past the word “Hello” without cracking up, if you need cheering up or just want a good laugh, watch it.🤣 pic.twitter.com/TxfeFnunIg

— Paul McDonnell (@paulmcdonnell88) January 7, 2021

The video went wildly viral today and here are just a few of the things people were saying about it.

If you watch nothing else today then watch this. It is joyous . . . https://t.co/IOPZfPNh4K

— Peter Bowker (@pbowker7) January 8, 2021

I hope that's exactly what you sent your brother. This is just super. Thank you 😁

— ProperFood.ie (@ProperFood_ie) January 8, 2021

Laughed so much watching this I gave myself hiccups. https://t.co/GmamzuO1xV

— Barry Malone (@malonebarry) January 8, 2021

Awh that is brilliant- love how he sounds as if he is about to read the news and then just cracks up laughing 😂

— Maggie Noone (@MaggieNoone) January 8, 2021

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Source Twitter @paulmcdonnell88