布朗化身蘇珊大媽 英首相在美人氣大漲
Gordon Brown's profile in America was given an unlikely boost when he was transformed into Susan Boyle on The Daily Show.
The Prime Minister bore a striking resemblance to the Britain's Got Talent runner-up in a montage made up for the popular comedy current affairs programme showing him clad as the singer.
Wearing a brown top and a string of beige beads, he had Miss Boyle's hair superimposed over his own to complete the picture.
The host, Jon Stewart, feigned shock at the resemblance between the Prime Minister and his fellow Scot.
Comedians in Britain have already drawn comparisons between Miss Boyle's down-to-Earth look and the premier's own unvarnished style.
But the joke could prove to benefit Mr Brown.
Although he was recently invited to address a joint session of both houses of Congress on the global economic crisis, he is generally considered to be less well known in America than his predecessor, Tony Blair.
Miss Boyle is already a household name in the country after shooting to fame overnight when clips of her first Britain's Got Talent appearance became a YouTube sensation.
She has since appeared by satellite on many of the major US chat shows.
Mr Brown is a fan of Miss Boyle's music and telephoned both Simon Cowell and Piers Morgan to check on her health after hearing that she was being treated for exhaustion following the talent contest's final.
自從在《每日秀》節目中搖身一變成爲蘇珊•波伊爾後，英國首相戈登•布朗在美國的人氣意外大漲。
在這檔喜劇時事節目中，英國首相布朗被套上了歌手蘇珊的外衣。在這幅合成照片上，布朗與這位“英國達人”亞軍驚人地相似。
在照片上，布朗身穿波伊爾小姐的棕色上衣，戴着米色珠項鍊，髮型也跟她一樣。
主持人喬恩•斯圖爾特在看到首相與他的蘇格蘭同鄉之間如此相似時假裝被嚇到。
在這之前，英國的喜劇演員已經對波伊爾小姐的實際面貌和首相的原本模樣進行了比對。
但這個玩笑卻讓布朗受益匪淺。
儘管最近他受邀在美國國會參衆兩院聯席會議上發表了有關全球經濟危機的演講，但總體上看，他在美國的知名度還是不及前任託尼•布萊爾。
自從首次亮相“英國達人”的視頻在YouTube網站引發大熱之後，波伊爾小姐一夜成名，並在美國家喻戶曉。
從那以後，她已通過轉播在出現在美國多檔大型電視訪談節目中。
英國首相布朗也是波伊爾的粉絲。在聽說她在決賽後精疲力盡入院後，布朗還曾致電西蒙•考威爾和皮爾斯•摩根（譯者注：“英國達人”評委），詢問波伊爾的健康狀況。
Vocabulary:
runner-up: 亞軍
montage：the technique of combining in a single composition pictorial elements from various sources（蒙太奇手法，使用不同因素混合或聯合而成）
feign：to represent fictitiously; put on an appearance of（假裝，裝作）
down-to-Earth：實際的
