legrandefromage":38jojq3u said:
It reminds me of the Andrew Sachs Radio 2 saga. Russell Brands' show was the only listenable thing on the entire network at 10pm on a saturday night. 3 people genuinely complained until the Mail got hold of it and blew it all out of proportion.
You're on a sticky wicket, there.
Whilst I, on occasion, enjoy Brand's humour - even when he's sending himself up, trying to enter the political narrative... that whole episode was senseless, and without any merit. I mean, FFS, it wasn't even funny.
You've only got to read their comments afterwards, to get that they realise, with hindsight, they went too far - that was all about their ego, rather than pure humour - that's what they lost sight of, and I suspect that's what the whole furore, if it did any good, made them realise.
And here's the thing - once the people trying to be funny, become rather arrogant with it, they go beyond pure mirth, and it becomes as much about their ego - which is that nugget of self-realisation that seems beyond some of these so called funny guys, they've become sold on their own-hype, they have lost that sense of reality from where their previous sarky-ness has evolved into pure excess of ego.
But the biggest tragedy? People who blithely say that JC and the help are just telling it like it is, and it's the hand-wringing, Grauniad reading, vocal minority that disproportionally spoil it. It's just so stunningly naive. You can be reasonably sure that Clarkson himself doesn't buy into a lot of the bobbins he spouts - it's all for effect, not being blunt - it's his demographic "apes" that incorrectly attribute their controversial-for-effect schtick as down-to-earth, un-politically-correct, plain-speak.
Who was it, now, who compared Top Gear to Last of the Summer Wine? I'm seeing some foreshadowing, there, with Compo, Foggy and Clegg.
