British ‘umour
TV sometimes can suck and suck bad. Yesterday was no exception, but I luckily came across “Don’t watch that, watch this“. It was on BBC2, I think.
The tele was on, as it sometimes is, because no-one had got the guts to switch it off and do something more entertaining - like going to bed. I was staring into the void, when Sir Cliff Richard came on - normally he’s spectacularly boring (to be fair he’s like a uncle who was cool when you were a kid but you now pray never comes round to visit), however someone decided to bleep out a number of the words as he was singing, e.g. “She’s a **** woman”. At first I thought someone was making a political point about free speech - a ‘hot political topic’ recently (an oxymoron, if ever there was one) . Slowly, as I continued to watch I learned the whole point of the programme was satirical. Several dull political speeches, as well as interviews had been reedited to make the speakers look like the pumped up egos they really are. What came as supremely twisted and cruel was bleeping Cliffs lyric, “Isn’t it funny how we don’t **** any more”. To get the joke you have to understand how insipid the lyric is normally while having a mind like a sewer. That’s me all over!
Update:
Here’s a site where you can download or stream the first series.
