Jaqui Smith has turned into a huge source of amusement. Firstly, she seems confused as to where she lives. Secondly, she seems to think that the taxpayer should pay for her and her family’s TV. Thirdly, she employs her husband (looking something like a cross between a sex offender and trendy college lecturer) to work for her which categorically isn’t nepotism. Fourthly, most amusingly, her husband watches porn on her expense account. That she is borderline incompetent isn’t the issue here, nor is it the corruption and stench of her dealings, it’s how funny and ludicrous she now appears. This one will run and run.

Stewart Lee’s comedy vehicle was plodding along as an exercise in mediocrity until this latest episode. The latest one is VERY funny. Even the linking sketches are far better than normal and there is a pleasant sense of absurdity running through that was missing in the two previous episodes.

The new South Park is also good. The global economic downturn seen in purely biblical terms. Only just not how you thought it might be. When South Park is good, it is very, very good. And makes comparisons that seem utterly ridiculous at first but are so well done they become obvious by the end of the show.

And this marks my 200th post, apparently.

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