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CMJ corpses
By Will 4 months ago Leave a comment on this post
It’s not quite as side-splitting as Aggers’ moment with Brian Johnston, but Christopher Martin-Jenkins corpsing live on air is still too precious a thing to ignore. Have a listen, and here’s the run of events:
During the 52nd over New Zealand captain Dan Vettori faced England paceman Stuart Broad.
“Broad’s in, he bowls, this time Vettori lets it go outside the off stump, good length, inviting him to fish,” CMJ told listeners.
But then the trouble started. CMJ went on “But Vettori stays on the bank… and keeps his rod down, so to speak.”
At this point I am afraid to admit the laughter started amongst those of us in the box. And I can’t just blame new recruit Phil Tufnell, we were all guilty. Bill Frindall helpfully exclaimed “good luck” and after a few seconds CMJ managed to speak again.
“I don’t know if he is a fisherman, is he?” … the laughter continued but to be fair to CMJ he just went on regardless.At such a moment there is, to be honest, not much a producer can do - and I cannot lie, I know it was childish but I was laughing along as well. Anyway - you have a listen and I dare you not to laugh as well!
There was another great blooper from Radio 4’s institutional announcer, Charlotte Green, a couple of months back.
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3 Responses to “CMJ corpses”
May 17th, 2008 at 12.35 am
May 17th, 2008 at 3.41 am
Did you ask him if he was having the fish?
May 17th, 2008 at 6.37 am
I think he might have got away with it if Tuffers hadn’t been in the box…
