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Tony on Comic Relief

 
 
Seth
00:40 / 19.03.07
We all know Blair's a decent actor, but who knew he had such great comic timing? And how do we feel about him leaving the terms *chav* and *pikey* unchallenged in a comedy sketch?
 
 
Alex's Grandma
02:03 / 19.03.07
Well I suppose Tony isn't *bovvered* really. His performance in that shit of a sketch may well be the most honest thing he's ever said to the British Public.

What a small man he was, in the end; history, presumably, is going to piss on his chips.
 
 
astrojax69
02:29 / 19.03.07
yeah, but like he ain't, you know, like, bovvered...

who is ross kemp?
 
 
Our Lady Has Left the Building
07:17 / 19.03.07
I suspect it's rather like asking the question 'how do you feel about all of Jimmy Carr's jokes?' Jo Brand described him as helping to turn back time by dipping his toes into the lake of political incorrectness and seeing what he could get away with.
 
 
penitentvandal
14:10 / 20.03.07
I thought it cast a shadow over the whole proceedings. That and Alistair Campbell being on The Apprentice. These are the guys who got us into the war in Iraq, on spurious grounds, breaking international law, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of British soldiers and thousands of Iraqi civilians. Blair kowtows to GWB, a man whose country will only fund abstinence-only AIDS education programs in the developing world, thus contributing massively to the AIDS epidemic in that country which Comic Relief struggles valiantly against. It just seemed a bad fit to me.

What I would have liked was for them to get Marcus Brigstocke to come out and say 'now we were going to have a sketch with Tony Blair in another of his lame attempts to get 'down' with 'the kids', but then we thought about how much of a human wankstain he actually is, so FUCK HIM, here's the fork handles sketch instead.'
 
 
Papess
14:32 / 20.03.07
[slightly ot]
Blair kowtows to GWB, a man whose country will only fund abstinence-only AIDS education programs in the developing world, thus contributing massively to the AIDS epidemic...

That just infuriates me. How disgustingly unrealistic. *grrrowls, gnashing of teeth*

Hypocritical f*****g idiots.
 
 
All Acting Regiment
14:58 / 20.03.07
Yeah, see, this is the problem with what may on the surface seem like a willingness, in a politician, to bow to the carnivalesque, isn't it? Makes them look like funny, everyday blokes...
 
 
Lurid Archive
15:41 / 20.03.07
Loathsome as Tony Blair is as a politician and leader of the UK....I thought the sketch was quite funny. The fact that the UK has a prime minister who can even attempt this sort of thing, never mind sucessfully, is something of a positive. It doesn't begin to weigh against the human tragedy in Iraq, of course.
 
 
Quantum
15:44 / 20.03.07
Hopefully it will act like Charles Kennedy's appearance on Have I Got News For You, a foreshadowing of calamity.
 
 
penitentvandal
22:15 / 20.03.07
I've actually submitted an e-petition to Downing Street requesting that Blair stop appearing on this kind of crap and just get on with his job.

Probably hasn't gone live on the site yet, but if anyone wants in on the action, PM me and I'll PM ya back when it goes up.
 
 
Alex's Grandma
23:01 / 20.03.07
The fact that the UK has a prime minister who can even attempt this sort of thing, never mind sucessfully, is something of a positive.

In what sense though? Catherine Tate's act is enough of a disgrace in the first place, based as it is on the idea of
a well-heeled, thirtysomething comedian mocking the already really tired out 'funny' situation with regard to the problem the English middle class has with 'chavs'. It wasn't that amusing on 'Little Britain', but at least they thought of it first. Here though, it's less good.

Granted, Margaret Thatcher would never have agreed to appear in anything like this, but on the other hand, I can't help feeling she might have made a better fist of US relations in recent years. Whereas Tony, in both cases, has once again demonstrated, graphically, why he was just too silly to be in the job he's been in for far too long.
 
 
Spatula Clarke
23:09 / 20.03.07
Thatcher requested a short Yes prime Minister sketch be written for her. And it was. And they only fucking performed it.

It's one of the most painful things I've ever seen.
 
 
Quantum
13:39 / 21.03.07
'Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was so taken by the Yes Minister series, that she wrote a sketch herself (together with her Press Secretary Bernard Ingham).'

In the news today, the Catherine Tate comic relief DVD has become the fastest selling DVD of all time on Amazon.com, according to my paper.
 
  
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