Guy Goma — 'The Wrong Guy' — gets big

Just up, his website: guygoma.com.

If you're one of the six people left on the planet who hasn't yet heard of this 21st-century Chauncey Gardiner (above), now you can remedy your shortcoming.

His site's got a link to the now-legendary interview that put him on the map.

But maybe you don't have time to fool around visiting websites and all while you're at work: you're important, a legend in your own mind, as Dandy Don Meredith memorably said of his Monday Night Football broadcasting partner Howard Cosell.

OK.

I feel your self-importance.

Here's a direct link to the video.

Now take a chill pill already, eh?

As Edgar Hilaire Germain Degas (yes, that Degas — actually Dugas, but I really don't have time for this kind of nonsense, I'm a very, very busy man) once remarked, "Some forms of success are indistinguishable from panic."

Ring a bell?

Or was that the clue phone in the background?

Hard to tell, what with all the excitement at your place.

As if.

As regards TV commentary by talking heads, screenwriter William Goldman once said of Hollywood, "Nobody knows anything."

That goes for BBC television as well.

And don't even bother wondering about the U.S. networks, dead companies walking all.

Long story short, by Dan Mitchell in the May 26 New York Times:

The Wrong Guy

In retrospect, it seems inevitable that Guy Goma — the man accidentally interviewed by the BBC last week in a case of mistaken identity — would become an Internet celebrity.

The BBC hauled Mr. Goma onto its soundstage and started asking him about downloading music.

He had no idea what was going on, but he answered well enough.

The interviewer thought he was Guy Kewney, a technology journalist, but he was just a guy who was there looking for a job.

The video has been passed around the Internet, and is featured on a new site, guygoma.com, dedicated to the incident and to Mr. Goma's job search.

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Here's a link to a May 16 BBC story about its own goof; on the page is a link to the video that's made him a household name worldwide — except in the six households referenced in the second sentence of this post.