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:
“It might become a wheel spoked red and white
In alternate stripes converging at a point
Of flame on the line, with a second wheel below,
Just rising, accompanying, arranged to cross,
Through weltering illuminations, humps
Of billows, downward, toward the drift-fire shore.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)