BBC Blooper of the Week

The deal is, Apple made a big breakthrough with the Beatles people where they'd start selling Beatles music over iTunes. So they were going to interview Guy Kewney, editor of NewsWireless.net

The trouble is, the guy's cab driver had a nametag with Guy Kewney on it for some reason. The BBC person goes out to the lobby, sees the nametag, and says "You need to be over here."

So Generic Cab Driver is placed in the studio and on camera. And when the interviewer says, "Guy Kewney is editor of the technology website Newswireless" the cabbie realizes what's just happened and this look of utter panic crosses his face that I've watched about ten times and it's still funny.

But then, rather than say, "Goodness, you have the wrong guy", he decides to just wing it. I don't think he's ever actually been in the same room as someone connected to the internet, truth be told. So, he answers these questions as best he can in an impenetrable French accent.

Priceless.