Fragony on 16/5/2006 at 10:05
Just saw this on another site, has to be one of the funniest mistakes ever! His face at the start priceless :laff:
I hope he got the job :cheeky:
Para?noid on 16/5/2006 at 11:43
<img src="http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/8955/cabbiegif7nu.gif">
just... magnificent
Paz on 16/5/2006 at 15:27
Haha, I'll never get tired of that sneaky "yes, I'm about to wing this" look :D
The real Guy Kewney sez: "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." "
None of which makes this any less entertaining, but congrats to almost every media outlet for being so excited about a BBC error that they .. er .. immediately made an error.
Fingernail on 16/5/2006 at 15:30
What's more hilarious is how well he did to go along with it, and how the other satellite-linked commentator voiced his agreement with his "surprise".
I hope he got the job, he clearly has initiative.
trevor the sheep on 16/5/2006 at 15:46
He is a cabbie cos he is black yeah?
Fingernail on 16/5/2006 at 15:48
the word is coon not cabbie
aguywhoplaysthief on 16/5/2006 at 15:54
That look was priceless.
Fingernail on 16/5/2006 at 16:01
Check out the follow-up interview:
(
http://news.bbc.co.uk/)
They brought both the real and the "fake" Guys back to discuss the incident.
Vigil on 16/5/2006 at 16:01
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the word is coon not cabbie
Because mock racism never gets old!:thumb:
