The last hurrah of a one-time comedy bandit
March 20, 2007
Anyone who managed the heroic task of watching through Paul O’Grady to the more saucy bits of Comic Relief last Friday would have noticed a budding satirical comedian in the making. Call me blind for not seeing the gag, but I found Tony Blair’s sketch with Catherine Tate to actually be quite amusing. It is hard to imagine a Jacques Chirac or Bush doing anything of the sort, not to mention any of the other Prime Minister we’ve had in the past; John Major was terrorized by Spitting Image’s pea sketch for Christ’s sake. But if this is part of the final farewell tour that (courtesy of a leaked document from D street) will leave us wanting more, did Comic Relief play into a retiring PM’s publicity hands?
P.S. Highlight of the night has to be Jonathon Ross’s accidental quip to Fern Cotton about her sounding common. No stage school in the country could teach someone to hide a face that drops that fast.
Tim
Well, Blair did hone his act with an appearence on the Simpsons. He was certainly better than Lucas and Kay in a waste of my Friday night, why didn’t I just go to the pub?
Catherine Tate is never funny. She is so unfunny that she was upstaged by Tony Blair, who, by the way is a prime minister and not a comedian. Well maybe he is a comedian, y’know iraq and all…. oo get me and the crap satire.
Not being able to secure a dignified legacy in any aspect of his political life Tony Blair turns to the comedy world (if Miss Tate can be included in that) to repair his tarnished image. And Jiminy Cricket the British public have only gone and swallowed his comedic load with relish! An illegal war, bovvered? Cash for questions, bovvered? A relationship with the United States that is the envy of every S&M bordello in Soho, bovvered? Apparently we’re not; as long as he can deliver a catchphrase so tired it’s wearing a pair of stripy M and S Pj’s and a holding a cup of freshly brewed Ovaltine. If comedy really is the new rock and roll it’s just made the same mistake as Brit-Pop a decade previous, and if that was anything to go by then I’m afraid the only way is down.