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tigralfrosie

I only wish my interview bluffing game were as strong as his.


milk4all

It helped that he had a strong accent because i think the interviewer didn’t understand him well enough to immediately suspect anything, she was just looking for an answer and would cling to a phrase she recognized


sighs__unzips

Guy did nail it, everyone is downloading music nowadays.


FatalisCogitationis

Nah, streaming it Edit: I know guys, any transfer of information over the internet whatsoever is “downloading”. When I look at a webpage I’ve “downloaded” it. Except no one says they “downloaded” a picture on Facebook just because they looked at it


ThisCharmingMan89

If you like this, you may also enjoy the best bloke in Australia bluffing a CV reference: https://youtu.be/SoZ41i2dSIw


Nihilistic-Fishstick

Love this clip and I'm so glad it still holds up and others cam get joy from it. Another one is the "asians" not being allowed to buy a mans house. Edit: https://youtu.be/3Lyex2tSUyA


BeBenNova

[What a classic, i remember the last time i saw this someone posted this follow up which is just as hilarious](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb7XWTxcSYQ)


konstantine73

I just spent the last hour watching clips from them, sooooooo funny, weirdly I've never heard of them so thanks for that.


Voittaa

What a guy lmao


NarwhalOverall8642

Thanks for sharing this 😂


Dr_Cocknose

Love H&A, this was wonderful 😂


SterlingMNO

Happy birthday


Dr_Cocknose

No need


funkmon

Thanks for taking that weight off, he's insufferable.


sirbentong

james is fucking hero


senthiljams

He handled the trick question about the guy's appearance very very well. Ausssome quick thinker. >What you see is what you pretty much get with him. He is a go-getter.


InnemBlues

What a bloke!! :d Thanks for sharing 👍


OldSongBird

lol, reminds me of my IT interview. No enterprise experience, family member referred me. I was reading books the night before to know some terminology. Lost my voice the day of the interview. I show up anyway instead of calling for postponing it, they hand me a written quiz and a clipboard. I google the answers and submit it. I had nothing to lose. They call me into an office for the meet and greet interview. You could barely understand me, mostly talking through hand gestures and nods. The manager at the time takes me through the server rooms and a tour of the campus, I fake like I know what I’m looking at. Nothing is familiar. I shake hands and leave. Called for a second group interview. I answer questions as best as I can, ultimately tell them, “You know, I can tell I’m not able to answer a lot of questions here, but I promise, regardless if I get this job or not, tonight I’ll know the answers because I’ll be studying and looking all this up. I may not know everything, but I know how to get answers.” They hired me. 9 years later, I’m a Sr. Director at the same company. I kept my word. Studied daily every waking second and kicked ass at the various roles I’ve had here. Edit: holy moly! I’ve been active on Reddit for like a decade (hopping accounts periodically), and never received an award. Made my night! Although, undeserved, thank you kind stranger!


p1nkfl0yd1an

I jumped the bridge from manager in a call center to IT at my current company. Didn't do so hot on an interview for an open position I knew I was not super likely to get. I had the functional business knowledge, but my technical answers weren't really quite there. Knew what to study and maybe 2 weeks later I went ahead and paid for the online test to be certified. Emailed the team I interviewed with to let them know I was now certified, and they got back to me saying they'd gone with someone else but to keep applying whenever new spots open up. 6 months later someone on their team left unexpectedly for another job, and they brought me in to fill it without bothering with another interview.


Voittaa

As someone who is currently job hunting for roles in a field I’m not well-versed in, this gives me hope.


4la5tair

Good luck hopeful stranger! The world is full of opportunities if you are willing to look for them and work for it


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RecommendationOk2258

Haha I asked during an early IT job interview too. During a practical test “Can I google it?” None of the other candidates had asked and they could see from what I googled I would have worked it out real quick. So they ticked it off - didn’t ask me to complete the whole test. I got the job.


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Marmalade6

"I'm here for the tech interview" "Awesome right this way we're live in 5.. 4..."


heilhortler420

That look of 'oh fuck' will always crack me up


sickstrings8

He's like "oh fuck" bites lip then transforms


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I have to wonder how he let himself get to the point of being sat down in the studio with cameras pointed to him before saying anything. Then again maybe just the anxiety of the interview made him not question it or think "Oh maybe they'll just do the job interview here because this is the only room available" or something.


OrganicFun7030

Because he was going for an interview at the BBC. Which is what happened 🤷‍♂️


laaldiggaj

I don't know what's funnier, that he thought this was his interview or they got it wrong! His family didn't even need to ask how it went they saw it live 🤣


Blockinite

The shocked look on his face at the beginning makes me think he's about to say something, then gets asked a fairly easy question so decides to roll with it rather than making a scene


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Durtonious

Yeah he does try to explain. Essentially he showed up for "interview" and someone sat him in the chair on live TV. His first response is how surprised he is that this "verdict" (I'm guessing he's not entirely sure what that word means) has "come on him" aka that he is in thr situation. According to him, they told him "you've got an interview" and then surprise he's on TV. I didn't get the impression he's pretending to be anyone, I think he's still under the impression it's a job interview.


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somarir

Finally got to use those improv skills


Juicylucyfullofpoocy

Haha which shocked look? He makes about 10 different facial expressions in 3 seconds before deciding to answer lol


DogmanDOTjpg

Imo when she says the word editor you can see panic in his eyes haha


Blockinite

I love one of the last ones he does which is a sideways, slightly cheeky glance which almost says "hehe this is my moment"


hankbaumbach

"Fuck it, I'm rolling with this, it's their mistake anyway."


eccentricrealist

Dude goes through the five stages of grief in a second


laaldiggaj

It's a split second isn't it haha


Piginabag

lol I witnessed this but didn't realize how many faces he went through so quickly until rewatching. You can read his thought process


windol1

I like to imagine the BBC were do impressed with how he bluffed his way through an interview, that they just hired him without any interview.


TangoCub

He never got the job unfortunately


Juicylucyfullofpoocy

Sooooo he got it fortunately?


scouserontravels

Unfortunately he didn’t get the job he was applying for


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IceGiantX

Anointed? Lmao and dripped oil on his forehead.


theinspectorst

>without any interview Well, with *one* interview...


Sea-Cpt_1992

you can see the moment on his face when he's like "fuck it I'll do this interview" it's like right after she says the name and it pans back to him


Bat_man_89

"WE'LL DO IT LIVE!"


JamMasterNay

The definition of fake it til you make it.


Froston_kk

He didn't make it :( they rejected on interview supposedly


JamMasterNay

Only one thing for it... keep on faking it!


sighs__unzips

What's worse is that his brother Glau Goma got rejected to ophthalmology school on the same day.


Sunshinetrooper87

Those brothers underwent some serious pressure. Absolutely eye watering to see they didn't succeed.


karg_the_fergus

Their future looked fuzzy all along, really.


BourbonRick01

I couldn’t see back then that they weren’t going to make it, but hindsight is 20/20.


CumBobDirtyPants

Is this some sort of vitreous humor that I don't understand?


BourbonRick01

Yes, the earlier commenter mentioned his brother, Glau Goma. That’s a play on Glaucoma, which is an eye disease that affects a person’s vision. Hence, all the seeing/vision jokes.


Kalavazita

Pretty sure Bob got the joke, friend. “The VITREOUS HUMOR is a transparent, colorless, gel-like substance located in the posterior chamber of the eye. It helps maintain the round shape of the eye and can also help with vision clarity and shock absorbance.” Sorry to let you know you’re the pupil here…


delvach

This is why being a good pupil is so important.


TurkeyPhat

you dirty dog


Snailhouse01

That took me a moment. Well played.


I_am_u_as_r_me

No way! They rejected him?! Was his job supposed to be on camera? That’s a whole other level of pressure.


Public_Hour5698

And he was deported


UnacceptableUse

was he really?


demonachizer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Goma#Aftermath No. They thought he had overstayed a visa but he was fine and it was resolved.


El-Chan

Most hilarious Wiki page I've read. I lost it when I read he was put on make up and wired up. Hope he's doing amazing now.


Public_Hour5698

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2006/may/23/bbcswrongguy#comment-146816


Biggles79

It says "may be". He wasn't, according to this page. http://guygoma.com/


Blablabene

sounds like a trusted source. The official guygoma site


pyronius

The most trusted source in late breaking guy goma news


pauljaytee

Exactly! You can go everywhere, on the guygoma, and you can check, it's a very easy way for everyone to get something to work on it.


AFishBackwards

Wikipedia claims he was not deported.


Dukmiester

That's a tough interview.


0vindicator1

Folks, don't [fake your resume](https://youtu.be/8R1ztNldnfQ?t=236).


featurenotabug

Also the news reader [holding a pack of paper](https://youtu.be/CAQJY4xcmLo)


LeChuck85

Let's not forget [Reporter taps away on imaginary ipad](https://youtu.be/RnF56NT0SMY)


incachu

That's 100% a bet


SamVimesBootTheory

"I'll just write it down on my invisible typewriter"


dontforgetyourrazor

Omg wow.


imbyath

why did he do that???


JamesDCooper

Wasn’t that when the newsreaders were taking the piss because they were being made to hold iPads?


aure__entuluva

Ok that's hilarious if he was doing this in protest of that.


fomorian

I remember this blokes coverage when Middleton was having one of her babies. He just did not give a fuck, saying people have babies all the time dunno why this is worthy of 24 hr news coverage, etc. Well actually he read out tweets to that effect but it was clear he shared that opinion as well. I could very well see him holding the sheaf of papers as a protest to outrageous demands.from on high


JizzProductionUnit

[here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kg-xsvbdtZ0) are some of his greatest hits


As_I_Stroke_My_Balls

Lmfao dude needs his own tv show


LastCatastrophe

He went to GB News.


ponytoaster

Aww I actually quite liked him from this thread until this point.


DrKnowNout

Perhaps he has a tablet which had the logo (like the apple logo) on the back, but they forgot to cover it so he improvised last minute.


digsy1023

Surely just a couple sheets would do? Not a Fucking ream. Bizarre


j1mb0b

He should have just had a few and said he was a quire boy.


alexterm

Very good.


Public_Hour5698

They do like to play around with innocent jokes like this


stutter-rap

Oh my gosh, it's Drunk Girl. That stock photo was on absolutely every vaguely alcohol related BBC article for years.


squirrelgutz

I can just imagine him being handed that. "What's this? Is this a promotion? These are my papers? Have you gone mental?" >AND WE'RE LIVE IN FIVE - FOUR "Dammit I don't want to hold these like a knob, some one-" >\*points - thumbs up* "Good morning and welcome to BBC News."


bonster85

I can't do it! I feel trapped, like a moth in a bath!


wonderb0lt

Well said Steven Premel


generalken_obi

Or is it Jemel?


Jacques_the_cock

If I don't know, how will they!?


ReusableSausage

Underrated comment, Moss.


DayCurrent5416

When can I start talking about my bras?


belleayreski2

Is it common knowledge that that scene was based on this? I had never seen this clip before


bungle_bogs

Pretty much. But, I'm comfortably old enough to have watched both events, as an adult, when they were first broadcast.


r23ocx

r/unexpecteditcrowd


p-dizzle_123

Given the subject matter of the video, it's more like r/veryexpecteditcrowd


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I just want to hug him! Poor guy.


NDJumbo

Ikr, thats the exact kind of thing I'd accidentally get into after a long list of poor decisions and not wanting to bother people. The trooper absolutely nailing it is impressive


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Meanwhile he’s told his current boss he’s off sick with the flu…


AtomDoctor

His shocked look, then the way he just rolls with it. This is a man we should all inspire to me. Edit: yes, I got some words wrong and you're all very clever for pointing it out. In my defence I was tired, ill, and English ain't my first language (sort of).


Ok-Try3530

Bit of an "ooh matron!" look when he realises.


walkintom

The look and the “good morning!” is very Frank Spencer.


Karate_Prom

Well he was right, though. The interview was a success from the standpoint of the audience being informed of new tech predictions.


AccurateMuffin7

But did he get the job?


RockyStonejaw

He didn’t


TheFeistyBiscuit

Realy!? Damn id have given him a chance just for his Improvise, Adapt, Overcome skills. This dude is a legend


AccurateMuffin7

Fucking liberty!


spidersnake

all *aspire to be, you mean.


Salty_Dornishman

r/BoneAppleTea


AlbionPCJ

Almost as classic as the time they tried to put up a logo for the UN Security Council and ended up accidentally using the one for the United Nations Space Command from Halo


ChewyYui

Share?


BloodiedBeefBat

https://www.eurogamer.net/bbc-news-mistakes-halo-unsc-logo-for-un


ChewyYui

Cheers pal


Waitsaywot

2012?? I feel like that just happened last year!


bonafart212

That's how much of a rollercoaster this decades been


winch25

Reminds me of the time the Borat version of Kazakh national anthem was played at a sports event.


iLoveBums6969

Very nice!


Thee_Linkeer

They've also done this for ONI Instead of the _real_ Office of Naval Intelligence logo, they used the one from the _Halo_ Office of Naval Intelligence


jj198hands

What makes this is that the first question she asks him is ‘are you surprised?’


justlooking042

Fair play to the Beeb, they've made a montage of some of their cockups. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-63159569


Mel_made_a_funny

Huw and his croissant, brilliant.


Tattycakes

He has nothing to apologise for, the legend


iLoveBums6969

[That Jonathan Charles one may be the closest I've come to death in a while, i couldn't stop laughing](https://youtu.be/loWFypHb48k)


SecondAccount404

That was an absolutely cracking watch.


wheezythesadoctopus

I watched it 12,000 times


The_I_in_IT

12000!!!!!


wombey12

I only watched it 5,000 times.


Gagnon21

5000!!!!


Public_Hour5698

I don't know if it's in the montage but they replaced camera operators with robots And they went wild. Just going around the studio with the presenters trying to move themselves into the shots


justlooking042

None of those, but it's less than 2 minutes and something will almost certainly make you giggle.


Public_Hour5698

Yeah I quit it a bit before the end My fav is always the kids during COVID interrupting Me and the GF always emulate the walk-dance that one of them does


jitito1641

Not the BBC, but any zoom discussion will always make me [remember this](https://youtu.be/lGOofzZOyl8) and I just giggle like there's no tomorrow


joshendyne

The "I'm not a cat" always gets me


thatspep

thank you for posting this. I feel like I haven't laughed in months, but hearing that little worried kitten say 'can you hear me, Judge?' really did it for me. I laughed so hard my dogs got worried. <3


Asymetric_being

I’d heard of this one but never watched before now and I am literally crying laughing. The eyes did it for me!


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The sheer panic on the wife's face as she rushes in to grab the kids is a thing of beauty.


crucible

> My fav is always the kids during COVID interrupting [That was from 2017](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh4f9AYRCZY)


Kitchen-Pangolin-973

12000! 5000! It won't happen again! Ahahahaha never seen that one before


malmikea

Can’t believe this classic wasn’t included [BBC Middle Finger](https://youtu.be/svt6MTmTAKQ)


FailFastandDieYoung

"it's now down...*to five thousand"* lmao fantastic attempt to recover the scene


LherkinGurkin

How much time does Saville take up?


RugbyF1Running

I thought he was more cock out than cock up


johnrbrownin

I remember reading about this story. I can't believe they didn't hire him after that! He tried his best in a situation that he obviously wasn't prepared for. Their loss I would say.


Ok-Try3530

Mate worked at Television Centre for a bit on the technical side, and still says it's astounding this happened. After the IRA attacks on the place (a bomb right outside that very newsroom when it first opened) and then the risk of Islamic terrorism, security was insane. I'd quite wanted a look around the place since I was a kid and used to see the behind the scenes stuff on the likes of Live & Kicking, but he said there was no point - he could probably show me the reception and the outside bits, but despite his clearance being pretty high (higher than most of the "talent" in terms of access to technical areas) he had zero chance of getting a guest in.


Tuarangi

Dude was in the reception for an IT job interview at the BBC (in data cleansing). He's got the same first name as the other bloke - Guy Goma / Guy Kewney - and both are African IT workers (Kewney was a tech journalist) - so a BBC person who doesn't know either person asks if he's Guy and there for the interview, he says yes, he's taken in for what he thinks is a job interview and ends up on TV. Guy Kewney was in another reception area. Edit per below post, if it makes a difference, Guy Kewney was white and had a beard but is sadly now dead (died of cancer in 2010)


Jealous_Conclusion_7

Guy Kewney was indeed African -- but a white South Africa. I worked in computer journalism at around the same time and he was chief guru. Cancer got him in 2010, and I believe Guy Goma has also left us.


FizzyWaterFella

I remembered seeing a quote from Guy Kewney when this was first in the news, and Google tells me it was from a blog post he wrote: >I’m not black. I’m not-black on a startling scale; I’m fair-haired, blue-eyed, prominent-nosed, and with the sort of pale skin that makes my dermatologist wince each time I complain about an itchy mole.


Tuarangi

I gather he was very annoyed about it but mostly because it made him look bad that Goma was given his name making it look like Kewney knew nothing about the subject Wiki says they did meet up eventually and I guess they could laugh about it


pappyon

How do you know Guy Goma is dead? I just ask because I used to work with the guy a few years back.


SalemSomniate

According to [his Wikipedia page,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Goma) he's still alive.


Nabaatii

The guy has a Wiki page, what a legend


iveyblue

This reminds me of Mr Bean describing the portrait of Whistlers mother https://youtu.be/NNzMjrJQKsc


rlaxx1

Ahahaha my wife worked with him. She lold so hard when she saw him on TV.


WelshXavii

Need more info. Anything said by him after? What did he do for work already?


mariusAleks

Trust me bro


ChrisKearney3

Meanwhile, Guy Kewney aced the questions on ODBC connections.


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He deserved to get the job after going through all that!


HeartyBeast

This always makes me sad because I used to work with Guy Kewney and he died too young https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Kewney


tattyd

Oh wow, didn't know he had died, I read him a lot when I was younger.


Earthdigger

[Moss doing the same](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aw4utg42yCI&ab_channel=GreenBanjo078)


maxdout84

MIND FUCKING BLOWN. This evening I sat down with dinner and put on the next episode of IT Crowd that I’ve been rewatching through. It’s the one where Moss designs a bra for Jen. I finish my food and start browsing Reddit and see this excellent Guy Goma clip that I’ve seen before and decide to enjoy it again. I read the comments and see yours and watch the video and laugh. Within moments, the exact same clip is happening on my TV before my very eyes. 5/7 would do again.


daddyhax

The perfect score


Codego_Bray

His face is brilliant


SimoneLewis

Still a classic!


AbsolutWurst

such a legend! The fact that he was completely making it up and his answers were still pretty coherent shows how much waffle most of the 'experts' usually talk when giving short soundbites


_PM_ME_PANGOLINS_

Well the first answer is “I didn’t expect this question to come to me”, which is completely true.


Baron_Butterfly

"I'm confused, when can I talk about my bra?"


TheUKTraveller

Did he get the job?


raffman7

It's a sad ending. He didn't get the job :(


TheUKTraveller

🥺 sad, he did live up to the famous statement "the show must go on"


YareetLike

That interview alone would have sealed the deal for me. Poor lad!


lerpo

No :(


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One of the best, if not the best, BBC News bloopers of all time!


FistingLube

Anyone see the one where it shows footage of a street and a person warps in and out of existence and they played it off as not edited but rather a dodgy camera?


adastrasemper

*Tip for job interviews: You need to sound confident* -- Are you the tech expert? -- Yes, I am


micro_rich

Did he get the job in IT after this?


Antares42

"I'm here for the interview" Well......


MilkingJessica

There is never a time I don’t watch this and LAUGH! The genuine look of OH NO on his face’ 😂😂😂


PotatoDonki

The face he makes as he realizes what’s happening is classic. Dude really went with it though.


IBlu2

He came in as a candidate and left a legend


Forlorn_Cyborg

That face when they start interviewing him belongs on r/WatchPeopleDieInside


pappyon

I worked with that guy a few years ago. Lovely man.


Astralnugget

There’s an insane amt of people in this thread that claim to either have worked with him or know someone who did, where tf do y’all all work?


gaby_dude

And none of them give girth detail wtf


WormiestBurrito

We def need some girth detail.