Funny TV and Radio Presenter Quotes (UK)

Jon Snow (presenter/interviewer): "In a sense, Deng Xiaoping's death was inevitable, wasn't it?" Expert: "Er, yes." (Channel 4 News)

Beethoven, Kurtag, Charles Ives, Debussy, four very different names. (Presenter, BBC Proms, Radio 3)

"Cystitis is a living death, it really is. Nobody ever talks about it, but if I was faced with a choice between having my arms removed and getting cystitis, I'd wave goodbye to my arms quite happily." (Louise Wener (of Sleeper) in Q Magazine)

Listener: "My most embarrassing moment was when my artificial leg fell off at the altar on my wedding day."

Simon Fanshawe (radio presenter): "How awful! Do you still have an artificial leg?"

Talk Radio Interviewer: "So did you see which train crashed into which
train first?"

15-year-old: "No, they both ran into each other at the same time." (BBC Radio 4)

Presenter (to paleontologist): "So what would happen if you mated the woolly mammoth with, say, an elephant?"

Expert: "Well in the same way that a horse and a donkey produce a mule, we'd get a sort of half-mammoth."

Presenter: "So it'd be like some sort of hairy gorilla?" Expert: "Er, well yes, but elephant shaped, and with tusks."

Robert Kilroy-Silk (talk show host): "Did you mean to get pregnant?"

Girl: "No. It was a cock-up."