For about an hour, staff at UK’s largest commercial television broadcaster were in hysterics.

Their boss had become trapped in a glass lift that wouldn’t stop going up and down.

Imagine the horror.

The hilarious footage of ITV’s programme editor Mike Rigby was captured by their political correspondent Paul Brand, who shared it via Twitter, hysterical laughing and all.

Take a look:

Our Programme Editor Mike Rigby has currently been going up and down in a lift for half an hour with no sign of escape. The bulletin tonight could be sparse without his heavy LIFTing #upanddown pic.twitter.com/ZQJvMY0GSp

— Paul Brand (@PaulBrandITV) November 25, 2017

That doesn’t look very fun for poor Rigby, now does it? In an attempt to keep the morale high, Brand continued to live-tweet the ordeal:

While other colleagues also got in on the saga, the below tweet in particular gave us the most intriguing bout of information about what it’s like to work with Rigby:

[source:huffingtonpost]