It proves – if it were needed – that comedians shouldn’t try to be serious. As the aliens say to Woody Allen in ‘Stardust Memories’ -- “We like your movies, especially the early, funny ones.”
A few years ago, on Radio 4’s ‘The Now Show’ Marcus Brigstocke did a very funny routine about the smug, pompous and self-indulgent people who buy organic food – but now he, too, has discovered “the environment” and his monologues have turned it to a hectoring harangue about the evils of supermarkets, airlines etc – stuff that more up-to-date comics were doing 10 years ago.
The “Crap at the Environment” nitwit – whose name escapes me – simply repeats everything we already know about the climate change scare but with the childish enthusiasm of discovery. As Gore Vidal said of George W Bush, “When he reads his speeches, as for the first time, his voice fills with wonder at the discovery of each new idea.”
But, like a child, the comedian only has a very superficial grasp of the subject. In Tuesday’s excerpt from his book he is ashamed for eating New Zealand lamb because it has been transported across the world. If he had done some research before becoming an eco-warrior he would know that New Zealand lamb is far more energy efficient and less carbon intensive than lamb raised right here in Britain.
No doubt future excerpts will tell us of his conversion to organic produce and that he wants to live in the country – even though it is very well established that organic food causes twice the greenhouse gas emissions of traditional food and city living is much more energy efficient than living in the country.
For all the good it will do, I have complained to the relevant BBC department – with a block ‘select’ and ‘copy’ into an email from the above paragraphs.
Feel free to do the same at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/make_complaint_step1.shtml
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