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Uploaded by on May 1, 2008

The second best signoff by a reporter ever - Tuipoloa Evan Charlton.

Comes second to John Stewart :-)

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Aired 1 May 2008

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  • Definitely one of the worst inflections I have ever heard on a reporter/commentator. By that, I am alluding to his commentary not the way he says his name. Comical and very annoying...

  • I thought I was the only one who found this funny a few years back.....how great to find it immortalised on YouTube (until TVNZ complain anyway)

  • He's ramped it up about 100 times for SBS.

  • Yea you're all wrong. Tuipoloa is his chief title, given to him from his Samoan family. His given name is Evan.

    It is not 'meant' to be pronounced as he says it. It's literally how it reads. The a at the end does not need the extra ''aaaaa''. I think he just got into a habit of that or something. Or maybe dats his 'mark' you know?

  • You can't get a job in SBS if you don't have an ethnic name. just as well he has ''tuipolooooooa' before the rest of his boring anglo name "Evan Charlton':)

  • The reason he says it with a long o is because that is actually how his name is said. It's Samoan, and Samoan has both short vowels and long vowels. Long vowels can sound strange to native English speakers.

    He's not doing it to be a dick!

  • Speaking with one of the presenters from the TVNZ netball coverage at a press conference last year, she said it was his tribal name or something like that.

    The first part anyway.

  • haha!

    it's what sets world news australia apart...

    they owe it all to tuipolooooooa

  • Haha, um mate that's the kiwi accent you're talking about. ;)

  • He does it on SBS all the time.

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