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Posted by raveed on May-15-2006 19:28:

Dunno BBC interviews the wrong guy

quote:
Television networks have been known to put just about anyone on the air as an "expert." But the BBC elevated the practice to pure farce last week when, instead of interviewing NewsWireless.net editor Guy Kewney, they accidentally interviewed his cabbie instead. Kewney was supposed to go on air to discuss Apple Computer's victory in a trademark lawsuit filed by The Beatles' Apple Corp. over its use of the Apple logo in iTunes. But a producer grabbed the baffled cabbie, who was wearing a "Guy Kewney" name tag, and seated him in the studio. YouTube and other video-sharing websites featured the instant-classic clip, where the cabbie's look of horror was quickly replaced by a game face as he tried to answer BBC interviewer Karen Bowman's questions.







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the look on the guys face when they introduce him is gold


Posted by DJ_Ampz on May-15-2006 19:31:

Hell he did a good job at it lol. as best as could be. LOVE the face as they introduced him.

Ampz


Posted by jon jon on May-15-2006 19:32:

that guy is awesome, I love him.

the BBC were awesome at fuckups man seriously, I used to catch shit on a daily basis. Names/ job titles, typos ALL THE TIME. Fackin drunks in that country, innit


Posted by Sasha on May-15-2006 19:33:

LMAO


Posted by VERTiG0 on May-15-2006 19:34:

Saw this last night and nearly pissed myself. I feel so sorry for the guy though, he realizes what is going on as soon as the lady introduces him as that Kewney guy and yet continues to participate.


Posted by Goashem on May-15-2006 19:50:

man his company should promote him to a spokesperson. he did a great job.


Posted by *~LiSa-LoO~* on May-15-2006 19:52:

quote:
Originally posted by DJ_Ampz
Hell he did a good job at it lol. as best as could be. LOVE the face as they introduced him.

Ampz


Hahaha...hilarious


Posted by raveed on May-15-2006 20:12:

quote:
Originally posted by DJ_Ampz
Hell he did a good job at it lol. as best as could be. LOVE the face as they introduced him.

Ampz


True that. Hats of to him for trying to answer the questions thrown at him and not admitting that hes the wrong guy and embarrasing the channel.


Posted by loconet on May-15-2006 20:42:

He wasn't actually a cabbie. He was applying for a job at BBC. Hilarious nonetheless LOL.

quote:

OK, reset everything you've heard about my appearance on the BBC: they've found the "taxi driver" and (as I have constantly tried to explain to everybody) he isn't a taxi driver.

His name is Guy Goma - which goes some way to explaining why he (and the BBC receptionist) assumed that someone asking for Guy Kewney was asking for him.

And he wasn't there to pick up a fare, because he's not a cabbie. He's a Business Studies graduate, from the Congo, and he was there in reception because he was applying for a high level IT job with the BBC.

Apparently the unflappable Mr Goma assumed the whole thing was some kind of initiation prank. His own speciality is data cleansing, and (my source inside the Beeb tells me) was "a little upset that nobody asked him about his data cleansing expertise."

Once again, the Daily Mail proves itself to be hotter on this trail than anybody else, and a Mail reporter has been posing Mr Goma outside the White City headquarters of the BBC. A picture story will be in tomorrow's edition, apparently.

http://www.newswireless.net/index.cfm/article/2708


Posted by Izra on May-15-2006 21:01:

That guys face is awesome !! I love his eyes moving around, too funny !


Posted by adi26 on May-15-2006 21:09:


Posted by Jer on May-15-2006 21:36:

quote:
Originally posted by jon jon
that guy is awesome, I love him.

the BBC were awesome at fuckups man seriously, I used to catch shit on a daily basis. Names/ job titles, typos ALL THE TIME. Fackin drunks in that country, innit


For Queen and Country!


Posted by *~LiSa-LoO~* on May-15-2006 22:22:

quote:
Originally posted by loconet
He wasn't actually a cabbie. He was applying for a job at BBC. Hilarious nonetheless LOL.


http://www.newswireless.net/index.cfm/article/2708


Why was he wearing that gyu's name tag then.


Posted by loconet on May-15-2006 22:55:

quote:
Originally posted by *~LiSa-LoO~*
Why was he wearing that gyu's name tag then.


I don't think he was wearing the guy's tag. There seems to be a lot of confusion and misinformation regarding the story. His name just happens to be Guy as well. That is why the receptionist pointed him out to the producer. Two people named "Guy" waiting to be interviewed (about different things lol). The text I posted was writen by the real Guy J Kewney.


Posted by KaiLee on May-15-2006 23:50:

Hahaha the look on his face was priceless!!!

Even if he were the real Guy I wouldn't have been able to understand what the heck he was saying anyways


Posted by Cribby on May-16-2006 01:27:

roflmao, I feel sorry for the poor dude.



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