I can't stop laughing over this news item.

The poor guy went for an interview and ended up live on air. Watch his face at the start of the clip!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/h...774429.stm

Hi baby!

Ooh. I've wanted to see this since I first read about it, the other day.

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

Hey hun ... I owe you a letter that I haven't written yet - I have your address in my bedroom ... I must get round to writing, I really must .... soon!

Reincarnate said:

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

poor guy

Reincarnate said:

That face was priceless, pure Mastercard.
Gotta give him credit for ad-libbing his way through that. Class

Cheers, Reincarnate

senik said:

his face was funny

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

Just watched it again for the crack

I bet he just thought "Oh man, what a curve ball! This isn't my subject... I guess my job interview assessors want to see how I can handle the heat... Here goes!"

All the best to him for his real job interview

Holy crap, the face he made when they said the name

I've GOT to see this. I read about it the other day and you couldn't make it up.

Love it!!

for the German speaking audience.. http://cat-ra.universal-m....30_s1.ram

how can you complain about the license fees now.

Pure class

Dancelot said:

i LOOOOOVE Loriot!

IrresistibleB1tch said:

yep. some of his sketches have most definitely that certain "Monty Pyhton vibe" to it.. I can almost see John Cleese and Michael Palin do the Astronaut interview...

Dancelot said:

definitely! my friend and i used to recreate the skits when we were kids - we loved "die tote Maus" and "das Fruehstucksei"...

CalhounSq said:

so cute

I didn't realize it was so easy to just get on the air like that!

BBC Interviews Wrong Man as Expert
By DANICA KIRKA, AP

LONDON (May 15) - The BBC interviewed the wrong Guy.

The network has apologized to its viewers for a studio mix up that resulted in a man mistakenly appearing on live television as Guy Kewney -- an expert on Internet music downloads.

In fact the man was Guy Goma, a Congolese man applying for a technology-related job with the British Broadcasting Corp. Goma followed an employee to the studio after a mistake at a reception desk, the corporation said late Monday.

The BBC said it apologized to viewers for any confusion.

The case of mistaken identity occurred on May 8 -- the day Britain's High Court awarded Apple Computer a victory in a lawsuit against Apple Corps, The Beatles' commercial arm.

In a reaction piece following the verdict, the BBC News 24 consumer affairs correspondent Karen Bowerman ostensibly welcomed computer expert Kewney.

After she introduced the apparent expert, there was a moment when Goma winced. He scrunched his face in panic and tried to open his mouth as if to explain.


"Were you surprised by this verdict today?" Bowerman asked.

"I'm very surprised to see the verdict come on me because I was not expecting that," he said in a heavy French accent, blinking in the studio lights. "When I came, they told me something else."

Nonplussed, he pressed on, growing more confident in his punditry as the interview progressed. He gamely delivered his opinion on the future of music downloads and cyber cafes following the landmark verdict.

Meanwhile, the real Kewney, who was waiting to be taken to the studio, looked up on a monitor and found another man in the interviewee's chair.

"What would you feel, if while you were sitting in that rather chilly reception area, you suddenly saw yourself not sitting in reception, but live, on TV? A bit surprised?" Kewney wrote on his Web log.

Kewney, who could not be reached for comment Monday, said on his blog that he was amused at first -- but then thought that viewers would think he did not know his subject, hurting his reputation.

Kewney and other media outlets originally reported that Goma was a cab driver -- though the BBC later said the reports were inaccurate.

Producers apparently realized by the end of the interview that something had gone wrong -- and, after they had gone off the air, asked their "expert" if there was a problem.

"He said: 'Well, it was OK, but I was a bit rushed,' Kewney wrote on his blog.

Goma told the BBC his interview was stressful, but added he was prepared to return to the airwaves. He said he was "happy to speak about any situation," the BBC reported. Officials at BBC declined to comment on whether he would get the job he was applying for.


5/15/2006 16:50:21


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I've been laughing at that for the last two days.


That poor man!