Cabbie gets mistaken for online music expert

MoP · May 2006

I stole this from ConceptArt.org, but it's too hilarious to miss, go to this thread:

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=67959

Read the article, then watch the video ... his expression is priceless!

steady · May 2006

ROFL i saw a .gif of his surprise expression on 4chan, didn't understand it until now haha

Prs-Phil · May 2006

WHAHAHAHAHA brilliant, the way he also moves on with the "good morning" and her brain must of been mistaken with a coffee that a trainee left standing around.

Daz · May 2006

Oh man, that was freaking awesome. His face after hearing Kewneys name is priceless. It's a look of utter surprise, fear, panic and realisation (oh fuck, that's the name of the bloke I was meant to pick up) all in one. I just keep re-watching that bit over and over! Ahah thanks!

MoP · May 2006

Yeah Daz, I did the same about 10 times (then showed my flatmate the same amount of times) ... pissing ourselves, it's hilarious! His facial expressions there will never get old

Daz · May 2006

I wanna make morph targets of them!!1

Malekyth · May 2006

ahaha ... that guy fuckin' rocks. I wish I had that kind of pluck, especially after the initial flush of terror. Awesome link!

MoP · May 2006

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4774429.stm

Guy Goma is his name, he's not a taxi driver at all, and was there for a job interview.

Apparently when he was asked if he was Guy Kewney, he said yes and was taken to the studio ... I guess if the guy's first language isn't English, and maybe if the production assistant was speaking quickly, it's easy to hear "Are you Guy Goma?" instead of "Are you Guy Kewney?".

Still, he did a good job in the situation

spacemonkey · May 2006

haha!

thats great!

Tulkamir · May 2006

Wow... that was the best expression ever.

Mark Dygert · May 2006

He must have thought it was part of the interview process, hahaha wow.

Scott Ruggels · May 2006

Poor guy but he nailed the interview. :-)

Scott

Rick Stirling · May 2006

As an aside, and dragging this thread back from the dead...

About 4 or 5 years ago when I was working at Ubisoft we were at ECTS (a shite UK version of E3). We were at the Ubisoft stand and were demoing games - I was supposed to be playing Worms Blast, but at the least minute I was given Battlerealms. Now, the games we were supposed to be playing we'd had in the office beforehand, but I'd not even HEARD of Battlerealms.

About 5 minutes after I started a Korean news crew turned up, and while the presenter did his part to the camera, he'd point at the screen. This was natural enough, we've all seen this at ECTS/E3.

What wasn't that usual is that he then shoved his microphone in my face and asked me in broken english to explain the game and demo it.

Fuck.

I read out the blurb from the poster and clicked on some units and smiled. I got the universal hand rotate signal for "and more please!"

Fuck.

So I ended up learning to play a game and explaining it (when I say explaining, I mean making it up (thankfully I can talk shit fairly well)) whilst being filmed and interviewed by a guy who was rather...energetic.

This lasted about 15-20 minutes.

The Ubi PR people looked on in horror, as did my boss and my producer from the studio - not because of what I was saying, but because I had a dire hangover, pink hair, and a Dexters Lab Tshirt on proclaiming "No Girls Allowed".

Kevin Johnstone · May 2006

oh fuck me that was funny, tears streaming down my face here

r.

Marine · May 2006

he was on jonathon ross, got cheered

Renaud Galand · May 2006

OMG, he's my new hero !

And yeah, I'm pretty sure that his first language is french

What do you think Pior? Sounds like a familiar accent isn't it

Leech · May 2006

This guy needs his own show.

Daz · May 2006

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OMG, he's my new hero !

And yeah, I'm pretty sure that his first language is french

What do you think Pior? Sounds like a familiar accent isn't it

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He's from The Congo, so yes.

Jelmer · May 2006

lol daz, nice image swap =] Screenshot time haha

swampbug · May 2006

Nice stunt DAz, lol.

Mister Sentient · May 2006

Daz pulls ultimate internet viral marketing stunt

blankslatejoe · May 2006

hahahahah!!
luckily some of us weren't leeching his bandwidth.

Cabbie gets mistaken for online music expert

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