All Posts Tagged With: "Andrew Sachs"
Brand New
Russell Brand (unlike his masters) has redeemed himself with a fulsome and thoroughly convincing apology to Andrew Sachs and the Satanic Slut. He must have been under a lot of pressure – in the video footage on the mediaguardian site he seems to have lost weight, with something Edvard Munchian about his elongated visage. And, just as puzzling, his beard has grown substantially in the couple of weeks since his misdemeanour. Has he refrained from trimming his stubble in an act of self-deprecation.
Whatever… he’s apologised and resigned, and that’s laudable.
How not to treat a Man well?
There’s no question that Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross need their arses spanked for mobbing up one of the stars of the greatest British comedy of all time. But if not literally – how?
The BBC can’t take them off air for good; quite apart from difficulties with contracts and irritating though Ross’s ego can become, there’s no doubt that large numbers of licence-paying punters enjoy him. Perhaps some kind of ritual public humiliation for him. Maybe he should stand in a set of stocks in Trafalgar Square (or outside Broadcasting House) while passers by are invited to pelt his visage with sponges soaked in low-grade Vin Ordinaire.
