Speaking on US TV channel NBC's Nightly News programme, an apparently empty chair was keen to deny reports that it was becoming invisible.
The empty chair was supposed to have been occupied by prime minister Gordon Brown, who is meant to be attending a UN summit in New York. A doorman at the studios confirmed that he had admitted a British government official who seemed to be engrossed in a conversation with an imaginary friend, even speaking in two different voices; but when shown a photograph of Mr Brown, he recoiled in horror before saying: "No sir, that ain't the guy. I'd remember that sour-faced sonofabitch if I'd seen him."
Earlier, President Obama had failed to see Mr Brown on five separate occasions, even checking under his desk in case the world-renowned statesman and financial genius was playing a game of hide-and-seek.
However, when the upholstered wooden chair in the NBC studios spoke to the floor manager in Gordon Brown's unmistakeable gruff brogue, interviewer Brian Williams shrugged and told editors he was prepared to go ahead with the interview if they were.
Asked why documents emanating from Number Ten were now written in large print with a crayon, Mr Brown's chair curtly replied that there was nothing wrong with the sight in his good eye.
When host Williams bluntly asked if he was going invisible, the chair rocked back and forth violently, shouting: "It's not my fault if certain people seem to be having trouble noticing me!" before falling over. Mr Williams' clipboard suddenly rose into the air of its own accord and flew towards the camera.
Several drunken bums in a back alley later reported a levitating bottle of whisky sobbing incoherently to itself in "some weird kinda Limey accent", before smashing itself to pieces against a wall.
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