Wrong 'Guy' Interviewed on BBC - May 18, 2006

In a monumental live-on-air blunder, the BBC wrongly interviewed an unsuspecting job applicant about the court ruling in the dispute involving Apple computers and The Beatle’s Apple Corp.

The wrong ‘Guy’, Guy Goma of the Congo, was plucked from the lobby of the BBC and mistaken for computer expert Guy Kewney. Goma was at the BBC waiting to be interviewed for the recently vacated position of game show host Guy Smiley.

As the interview began however, Goma smoothly answered questions in such an incoherent way that everyone immediately assumed he was an actual expert. BBC Producer, Guy Lullable, said, “I don’t even know what he said but it was brilliant. He managed to say nothing for five minutes and get away with. He’s better than Blair.”

Job offers have since been pouring in - from tobacco companies, The Home Office and Enron. Goma even received a letter of admiration from former Whitehouse spokesman Scott McClellan, who was said to be in awe and speechless.

Goma was reflective about his sudden success, “You can see everything. Walk and touch people. But it is an easy way. Anyway. Exactly.”

Until today, the press had wrongly identified Goma as a taxi driver. An unnamed spokesman for the Press Association said, “We apologise for the mistake. We meant minicab driver”.