Alternate Personas
During actual or predicted bad weather, Carr "interviews" himself in the guise of Biff Buffington. Biff reports live from alongside the Massachusetts Turnpike during snowstorms, documents polar-bear attacks, and surveys empty shelves at local supermarkets and encourages listeners to hoard perishables, especially milk and bread. The segment satirizes media coverage, and residents' behavior, during major weather events.
Carr sometimes reports controversy involving U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry using a voice that purports to be Kerry's, but is in fact a closer approximation of Jim Backus' character Thurston Howell III on the Gilligan's Island TV sit-com--including references to Kerry's wife as "Lovey."
When reading news from the United Kingdom, Carr may pretend to be a correspondent named Gormley with a bad Cockney accent.
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Famous quotes containing the word alternate:
“Germany is a queer country: one can’t regard it dispassionately. I alternate between hating it thoroughly, stick, stock and stone, and yearning over it fit to break my heart. I can’t help feeling it a young and adorable country—adolescent—with the faults of adolescence.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)