Small Icicle in Hades - Biased BBC

Small Icicle in Hades: "On this week's Now Show Jon Holmes took advantage of Marcus Brigstocke's absence and actually did a segment mocking climate change alarmism. Hard to believe, I know. A sop to the show's critics, perhaps?

Another interesting little point. Brigstocke's replacement for the week was Paul Sinha whose routine was based - with stunning originality - on a Daily Mail article. However, he referred to it only as 'a major national newspaper'. Has criticism of lazy right-on comedians using the words 'Daily Mail' also hit home?

The story in the Mail was about a naughty word nearly appearing on Channel 4's Countdown. For Sinha it was an opportunity to use another tiresome comedy cliché, namely the 'Have you seen those crazy comments under right-wing newspaper articles?' bit. He riffed off a comment on the Mail's website from Doreen in Dorset who had written of the near-scandal: 'More evidence of how moral standards have fallen in Brown's Broken Britain.' If you look up the post by 'Doreen' you'll see she also adds: 'When will they scrap the awful licence fee TAX?' This is clearly someone taking the piss out of Daily Mail readers. There are other comments like it, such as 'Dave' in Maidstone: 'Another idiotic waste of taxpayers' money by Jonathan Ross and the BBC.' One wonders what percentage of comments on the Daily Mail website are actually written by crappy comedians stuck for things to joke about.

A better comedian might have questioned why so many newspapers covered this non-story (Guardian, Telegraph, Sun, Mirror) rather than take the all too familiar - and clearly fake - Daily Mail readers' comments route.

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