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On this evening's Now Show Mitch Benn (yay!) sang a very good song which was pure Jake Thackray. Let me assure younger readers that once upon a time Jake was very attractive to the intellectual sixth former. Now, I appreciate the French influence and it's clear that Mitch has listened to him lots.

Poor nice-but-dim Marcus Brigstocke treated us to another of his tedious anti-religion rants. If I were not a believer, I would ignore Dawkins and all his boring acolytes and read Stevie Smith's anti-church poem How Do You See?.

Current Mood: slightly amused
Current Music: Archers theme

I love The Now Show. Punt, Dennis and Benn are brilliant. I love the running gags: 'I can see, I can see perfectly.' 'Come on, Tim!' For me, it's unmissable. But. Every week they give a slot to Marcus Brigstocke, who is fast going down the Jeremy Hardy slope to boringness. Brigstocke created the Giles Wemmbley-Hogg series, which I found both funny and, at times, affecting: Giles is awful but there is a touching innocence about him which gave the programmes depth. On TNS, though, Brigstocke seems to lose his sense of humour. This evening's little talk, on racism, was so unfunny, so full of soft targets, bad history and political naiveties that I began to wonder if perhaps the poor boy isn't really very bright. Goodness how sad.

I am really looking forward to HIGNFY this evening!

Current Mood: cross
Current Music: You were Right, Badly Drawn Boy