Second Life On Channel 4’s Richard & Judy
Adrienne Haik of virtual-world services firm Metaversatility passes on the YouTube clip above, an interview on Channel 4’s Richard & Judy show with three Second Life residents: Fizik Baskerville (aka Rivers Run Red’s Justin Bovington), Slim Warrior (aka musician Leo Wolff) and Errol Mysterio (aka author Tim Guest who’s written a book about his Second Life experience). It’s nothing much new, but it’s an interesting 10 minutes. Fizik perhaps overstates SL’s current economic power (and refers to Rivers as “the content-creation company for Second Life”). Most interesting to me are the reactions of Richard and Judy, the show’s hosts. They do a great job of representing the mainstream wonder about virtual worlds, without being overly lurid. Richard, especially, has some learning to do: I love how he refers to his avatar at one point (toward the end) as a “program” and then soon after that as a “site.” The paradigm has yet to shift for some.
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I think thte comment that “Richard has some learning to do” probably can be directed at pretty much most of the things he does. The tv show is an intriguing double act. With Richard often coming out as the over enthusisatic, occasionally untactful one. I think that may appeal to the demographic, “oh my husband is an idiotic big kid too” :-)
(yes I am getting to see a lot more of R&J being of these last few days)
I was looking for the cringingly bad Ali G clip where Richard fanmously impersonated what is already a heavy parody created by Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat etc.)
It often features in the top 50 most embarassing moments in TV.
They are of course huge in the UK and household names so we cant know them too much :-)