From DollyCali over at the brand spanking new message board, comes this bit of BAFTAness:

In rather more comic highlight of the evening was Meryl Streep accepting Charlie Kaufman's prize in his absence, and reading out a statement from the writer that she clearly hadn't had a chance to scan beforehand.

Kaufman's speech, as spoken by Streep, largely consisted of him agonizing about whether he could write a good enough speech for Streep to deliver, and worrying that if he wrote a joke, it would fall flat, and then "It will be as if I had spit on Meryl Streep across the ocean and this after she has been kind enough to accept on my behalf."

Streep then found herself reading Kaufman's words about how great an actress she is, and then about how she is "maybe one of the most modest, nicest people ever."

In today's Daily Telegraph here in Australia, there's another brief quote from the speech:

"I would like to spank Spike Jonze. Sorry, I would like to thank Spike Jonze."