8 comments

  • ebbi 2 hours ago
    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.
  • rchaud 41 minutes 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.
  • sxzygz 2 days ago
  • zdw 2 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.

    I wonder if they're related...

  • rmason 2 days ago
    For those without a NYT subscription:

    https://archive.is/xZgBI#selection-505.0-505.55

  • heldrida 1 hour ago
    Related HN posted earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48074260

    A book was released…

  • ares623 47 minutes ago
    When a relatable guy starts making stuff up on live TV everyone loves it.

    But when my chatbot does it, everyone gets upset! Make it make sense.

    • recursive 28 minutes ago
      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.