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Magicians hijack a live report, don’t easily disappear

Reporters doing live TV hits are frequently video bombed by strangers from the public and, most often, the result isn’t hilarious.

But in this case, two pranksters performing magic tricks during a live broadcast have won over the internet.

Reporter Ashish Joshi, from Sky News, was completely oblivious to what was going on behind him while doing a live update in Westminster, England.

Standing outside the Houses of Parliament, Ashish was presenting on UK Prime Minister David Cameron’s latest National Health Service (NHS) reform plans.

Meanwhile both magicians, Richard Young and Sam Strange, appear in the shot and make light of the whole situation.

In the YouTube video posted by Young and Strange, the two are seen doing a “shrinking man” illusion magic trick, which has since gone viral with over 100,000 views.

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“We thought it might get a few hundred views!” the magicians told the Guardian. “Videobomb videos are boring, everyone just makes faces or waves to their mum, we wanted to try and take it up a level.”

So they decided to roll in a table and frantically complete the illusion before the camera. Young is seen inside a box while Strange appears to be shrinking him until he gets really small in size.

According to the Guardian, news outlets such as the Huffington Post, the Metro and Sun Nation were all duped by the video, “initially reporting that Joshi had been pranked live on air by two magicians.”

But there’s a small twist… Ashish was in on the joke the entire time. Apparently the live report was fake and it was never aired on Sky News, which was confirmed via Twitter.

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The duo have performed the same illusion before in front of the BBC broadcast center and the ITV Studios to get noticed, reported the Mirror. They hope one day to get their own TV show