Did you hear the newly-rediscovered Harold Pinter sketch on today's The World This Weekend?
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They performed it in full.
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Yes, on a news programme!
Even some of the resident lefties on Twitter didn't think that was right.
Even some of the resident lefties on Twitter didn't think that was right.
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Written in 2008, and obviously mocking George W. Bush, they got Jon Culshaw from Dead Ringers to perform it in the voice of (Alec Baldwin) Donald Trump.
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The joke is that the US president is so stupid that he orders a nuclear attack on London when he meant to launch it on Paris. Why? Because he thought London was in France because he's stupid. D'oh! And then, because he's stupid, he puts things right by nuking Paris.
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Even some of the resident lefties on Twitter didn't think it was funny.
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And it wasn't funny. It was a sketch even the producers of Dead Ringers would have rejected as being too obvious and juvenile and leaden.
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And yet here it was.
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And here was President Donald Trump being mocked on BBC Radio 4.
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And 'arold's widow, Milady Antonia Fraser, was on hand to pronounce that it made her laugh every time she heard it.
Well, I must try out some of my jokes on her. She's obviously easily amused.
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Well, at least it's got us talking. (Aside) About how rubbish it was.
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