This Channel 4 subtitle gaffe is amusingly apt

No wonder viewers got a fit of the giggles.

SUBTITLE BLUNDERS DURING live broadcasts aren’t uncommon, but Channel 4′s latest one proved rather memorable.

Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov’s name got a little bit lost in translation, emerging as “so gay lover of”.

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You just couldn’t make this stuff up.

(H/T Huff Po UK)

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This Channel 4 subtitle gaffe is amusingly apt

6 weird things that happened this week>

Here’s the Sesame Street Les Mis parody everybody’s raving about>