It's not because I think "Assistant Producer, Jo King" is a funny name. I'm fine with Jo King.
It's the amount of effort the person reading them out goes to, to avoid running the syllables together without drawing too much attention to it. It's like you can hear his little brain working across the airwaves, going: "not too fast, not too slow, a bit of a gap, but not too much of a gap."
Every week I'm on tenterhooks waiting to see what slight emphasis he'll be going for this time to avoid anyone anywhere in the kingdom thinking for a moment that one of the GQT team is called Joking.
But what calamity do they imagine might happen if we did?