GUIDO WISDOM PASSES AWAY.
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THE BLOGOSPHERE WAS TODAY MOURNING THE PASSING OF ITS MOST FAMOUS SON, MR GUIDO WISDOM, BUT NOWHERE MORE PROFOUNDLY THAN IN ALBANIA.
He was like a safety valve, said,Albanian Ambassador, Mr Spicy Sausage, the authorities tolerated him and his mad antics, his tottywatching and his readers' bad languaging. It was a totalitarian system, you see, said His Excellency, Mr Sausage,, and Guido Fawkes played his part by helping fool the people into thinking that they had a voice, a champion, when in fact he was just a cheap entertainer, about as much threat to the system as a spicy sausage, said Mr Sausage, that's why they let him ramble on, pretending to be a journalist. Without people like him, you see, people might have taken to the streets against the terrible tyranny of NewLabour, The ToiletCoalitionists and all sorts of riff-raff. Sir Guido was a real help to the system and he will be sadly missed, for a day or two.
9 comments:
Heh!
Norman Wisdom will just be as funny dead as he was when alive.
When one listens to the "tributes" that have oozed out of all the sycophantic mouths today it is obvious that most of the owners of those mouths had never witnesses his unadulterated drivel.
The bastard son of Arthus Askey and Charlie Drake. Only the English laugh at such pap. Well, and the Albanians it would seem
Tea hits screen. Compare and contrast this to Mrs Dale Cardigan trying to do innuendo about barges...
There is a key difference between Norman and von Fawkes. The former never had any pretentions to be the mouth of the mob. And shouldn't be mocked by such a comparison.
Also, the sophisticates mocking his humour obviously were not alive nor experienced the austerity of the 40's and 50's where a little slapstick helped numb the basic necessities of survival.
@Mike - pre-fuckin-cisely. Thank you.
I don't think he is being mocked,mr mike, we have always, here, and elsewhere, doubted the impact of the political blog, worrying that it is no more than a safety valve for people who would otherwise be throwing rocks and thus a perhaps unknowing arm of the state. Wisdom, it seems was one of the few Westerners tolerated on cinema screens behind the Iron Curtain as we used to call our NewGangster Friends in the USSR and acceptable to our enemies abroad in the same way that Colonel von Fawkes has become to our enemies at home.
As for the sophisticates, I think it's ok for people not to like Wisdom, I heartily detested him, a child in the 'fifties, without deprecating, then or now, the sacrifices of my elders, I think it' ok, too, for people to like him.
It is the state's absorption of what starts as rebellion which I lampoon.
I do agree with you, however, that Wisdom never sought to be a mouthpiece of the mob, although, to be fair to von Fawkes, it is the type of mob he runs which appalls me so, were his mob like we, here, it would be very different. Just a matter of all those dead Lebanese kids, really.
Ishmael - just when I think I understand something, a wise man gives me pause. Bollocks - now I've got to think again....
Yes, mr caratacus, me, too.
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