BBC Question Time presenter David Dimbleby becomes internet hit with Eminem-inspired rap about Brexit to promote the show
The 77-year old BBC veteran performed his magic to the background of the song 'Lose Yourself'
QUESTION TIME presenter David Dimbleby has become an internet hit by performing an Eminem-inspired rap about Brexit.
The 77-year old BBC veteran performed his magic to the background of the hit song 'Lose Yourself'.
, quoting the original Eminem intro: "Look, if you had one shot or one opportunity to seize everything you ever wanted, in one moment, would you capture it or just let it slip?”
Dimbleby - who presents the weekly BBC show where the public quiz politicians, then broke into rap.
"We’ve triggered Article 50, May’s letter was nifty, Barnier looks shifty, are we gonna have to be thrifty with a recession in 2050?
"Or rather than doom or gloom, the economy could boom as… thousands of Fox's trade deals loom.
"With terror threats, Merkel threats, and will we decide to pay our debts?
"There’s immigration, vexation and questions from the nation, May’s premiership is definitely out on probation."
And he ends with: "So what does Britain think? Are we on the brink of a bright new dawn or might we sink?”
And after he finished the song, he continued his monologue to the camera: "That's the king of stuff we get up to on Question Time in the afternoon when we're sitting here thinking Brexit, Brexit, Brexit, Brexit, Brexit, Brexit, Brexit, Brexit... what are we going to do different about Brexit?
"This is what they do to try and make you watch Question Time!" he went on.
At the request of live viewers online, he then performed it all over again.
Dimbleby has hosted every general election BBC special since 1979, and has been the chair on Thursday night's Question Time since 1994.
His brother Jonathan and father David were also leading journalists, with his dad best remembered for commentating Queen Elizabeth II's coronation, and the funerals of George VI, John F Kennedy and Winston Churchill.
Viewers on Facebook flocked to praise him.
One said: "Almost like Shakespeare done to rap - brilliant."
Another added: "I thought I couldn't love you anymore because of your ties... I was wrong."
But some accused the legendary journalist of bias, and one said he was a "raging Europhile".
One commented: "Yet another BBC panel in favour of division instead of union".