After a week of bad news, we needed to watch this grandpa dance.

The past week has been filled with terrible news. The death toll in Gaza has reached 600, many of the bodies from MH17 have most likely been lost, and Australia lost the only piece of sound environmental policy it had.

But in amongst all of those sombre, horrifying, melancholic, depressing stories, this video of a grandpa dancing has managed to go viral.

Take a look: