'Say 'Mr Fawlty' to the camera now Manuel!'

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Right then, to start 2009 I suggest we look back at 2008 and one story in particular that grabbed the world’s attention; Ross and Brand make offensive remark on radio horror. The nation – or the Daily Mail offices – was gripped by the lewd remarks made. Lots of people listened – two people complained – and then a week later someone at the Daily Mail overhears a recording of the show and bang! the moral high ground has been taken. The crusade to rid the world of anything remotely rude – don’t fart in the park or we’ll shoot! – had begun. Tens of thousands complain, with the majority not knowing exactly what about, extracts from the conversation take up pages 3 – 12 without saying that they were never broadcast. Poor Andrew Sachs who thought the whole thing had been privately apologised and accepted and moved on from was faced with hundreds on photographers and reporters screaming ‘Say ‘Mr Fawlty’ to the camera Manuel!!!’ camped outside his London home. Interviews with old Grannies queuing up to see ‘I’ll sit and watch anything if it’s warm in there and I get a cup of tea’ were shown saying ‘Sack Him!’ ‘Sack both of them!’ Poor Mable behind her is nodding in agreement before asking who Russell Ross is when her teeth fall out into Dolly’s puddle of wee. Yet the Mail move on by saying that this is what’s wrong with modern Britain – knife and gun crime in tandem with Ross/Brand shame, I kid you not. Once the BBC – who were more startled then a rabbit in headlights – had drawn their sword on the pair, the crusade carried on by waiting for the duo’s next move to dismantle the Mails own land, Brand went to the USA to make another film – ran off spontaneously to make a pre arranged film – and Ross who hosted his annual Halloween party for his neighbours and their kids – Ross sticks two fingers up by hurriedly arranging £700billion party horror.

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t mind Ross or Brand, there ill-advised phone call should never have been broadcast, but apologies were graciously accepted and an acceptable punishment in-house would have been better then the trial by meadia. Remember the person in the centre of this was his granddaughter, whose silence was only broken when The Sun waved some reddies under her nose and we discovered that she is actually a money grabbing local bike – no wonder Andrew Sachs wanted everything to be kept quiet. But the final comment has to be about the Daily Mail, who as someone once said are not so much a newspaper but ‘an idiot's guidebook issued in bite-size daily instalments’.

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Selby