4334 days ago
If you had asked me to put a face to the name Jimmy Carr two days ago I would have failed miserably. But now, at last I know, what that annoyingly smug man who is always on the telly is called. I have learned something new and completely not worth learning. I have also learned that Mr Carr tells jokes about bankers avoiding paying tax whilst at the same time uses clever accountants to avoid paying tax himself. I have also learned that Mr Gary Barlow (hitherto regarded as some sort of saint in celeb land) plays the same game.
As far as I know Mr Barlow has never offered his views on ones fiscal duties and so he is no hypocrite. For Mr Carr I think that the case on hypocrisy is pretty much a slam dunk. But so what? I find it amazing that someone as annoying and not that funny earns as much as he appears to do but given my belief in market forces who am I to argue?
4337 days ago
The world is made more amusing my events that are conjoined but not connected. That is to say they happen one after another and have a link but there is no causal interaction. And so we come to my encounter yesterday with the loathsome slug that is Mr Russell Brand.
At Watford Gap, heading south on the M1 late yesterday afternoon, I felt like a coffee and needed fuel. As I waited for my Starbucks I glanced at the front pages of the Red Tops and saw that Mr Brand had enjoyed a heated exchange with chat-show host and annoying professional Irish camp leader Mr Graham Norton. I did not read on regarding both men as symbols of all that is worst about our celebrity obsessed age. Q. Brand and Norton agree to a fight to the death, who wins? A. Everyone.
