It's for this reason that I can't enjoy BBC Radio comedy, much of which, as Martin Kelner points out, is aimed at easy targets, from dubious politicians to self-obsessed celebs, but always the same ones over and over again, wheeled out for a cheap clubbable laugh.
There is no denying a tendency towards smugness. As Kelner says:
Jeremy Hardy on Radio 4's The News Quiz, for instance, is a funny man but there is something about his tone - maybe it is the approbation of the audience - that occasionally seems so self-satisfied that, even while you are laughing, you want to give him a smack round the neck with a sock filled with horse manure.
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A good point, goodfornowt.
Tell me, do you know if conservatives and/or accountants are now officially regarded as unpopular minorities? And bankers, what about them? A lot of my material at present is at their expense. I would hate to have such an easy target taken away from me.
One man's easy target is another mother's son.
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