I had a (nice) gig at Hull University on Sunday night, and returned to London on Monday early afternoon. Practically the first thing I saw as I got off the train was an Evening Standard billboard reading:
"DEADLY SKUNK FLOODS LONDON"
For a couple of seconds I thought I might have entered a B-movie! I half expected to see terrified people in masks fleeing from a massive Pepe Le Peu creature spraying his lethal gas around. It turned out to be about drugs, which was disappointing.
I immediately wrote it down as an amusing observation, and indeed got some good laughs from it at my gig last night. However, I was well aware that as a topical joke it had a very short half-life. Other, more well-known, people were bound to make the same kind of observation so if I mentioned it too many times I might end up being accused of stealing it. It turns out I was right. Oh well. Great minds think alike, etc.
There was another great headline yesterday on the front of thelondonpaper:
"TORIES LOSE £8.2m FROM INSANE DONOR"
I considered writing a joke about that, but then thought I'd just wait and listen to the News Quiz on Friday instead. Or read Private Eye next week.
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