His facial expression when the presenter was introducing 'him' is absolute gold! When I first watched it, I actually thought it was a skit - it being BBC, the animated facial reactions, the presenter trying to navigate his (non)-answers.
zdw 11 hours ago [-]
This seems to have happened about a year before "The IT Crowd" episode "Smoke and Mirrors" aired.
In that episode Moss, one of the IT denizens, goes to a TV studio where he is mistakenly put on a news program and interviewed about a war.
That gave me a good laugh on a Monday morning. Thanks.
londons_explore 4 hours ago [-]
There must have been some maintenance crew who had been asking for a bigger budget for months...
I wonder if they assisted the chairs downfall...
dude250711 2 hours ago [-]
Because of their composure, it almost looks like an intended format: you have 20 seconds to make your point before the chair collapses.
rchaud 9 hours ago [-]
One of the first viral videos in the early years of Youtube. This was at a time when the Internet was just small enough that a single video could organically circulate around the whole world and be universally appreciated for its ridiculous yet endearing nature, by adults and kids alike.
aaron695 4 hours ago [-]
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renticulous 1 hours ago [-]
Just goes onto show how fragile the trust network between humans is overall. Today, journalism is all about "trusted sources", "official sources", "my birdie told me".
GJim 32 minutes ago [-]
Oh dear.
If you bothered to read the story behind this, you would know the chap had the same name as the 'real' person being interviewed who was waiting in a different reception area. Our man got called forward by mistake, he was a quiet chap who didn't want to rock the boat and so (very amusingly) got interviewed by an unknowing presenter.
To claim this is about fragile trust, rather than a silly mistake, is bollocks.
I wish I could have seen Guy Kewney's face when he saw this. Sadly now passed, he had a charmingly irreverent sense of humor around Ziff-Davis UK back in the day.
fakedang 1 hours ago [-]
Well he didn't take it lightly and was very upset. They apparently did a pre-recorded version of his answers that the producers of that segment specifically told the night shift to air online, but the night shift didn't, which further exasperated him.
We're human supremacists. We would take risks to rescue stranded hikers, but not as much to rescue a stranded e bike. We eat animals but not humans. Humans are special to humans.
DoktorDelta 8 hours ago [-]
He didn't boil a lake in the process
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In that episode Moss, one of the IT denizens, goes to a TV studio where he is mistakenly put on a news program and interviewed about a war.
I wonder if they're related...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6Y2uQn_wvc&t=24s
I wonder if they assisted the chairs downfall...
If you bothered to read the story behind this, you would know the chap had the same name as the 'real' person being interviewed who was waiting in a different reception area. Our man got called forward by mistake, he was a quiet chap who didn't want to rock the boat and so (very amusingly) got interviewed by an unknowing presenter.
To claim this is about fragile trust, rather than a silly mistake, is bollocks.
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