Tuesday, June 09, 2009

Terrible Middle Class Humour

Reading John O'Farrell's An Impartial History Of Britain Or 2000 Years Of Upper Class Idiots In Charge I am struck by a surfeit of terrible middle class humour. It's there on every page, sometimes more than once a page. It is too much to take.

In my lifetime, I have been bombarded with terrible middle class humour. Time and time again I have sat down to watch a tv show and there it is, terrible middle class humour, sniggering at itself, thinking it's clever, thinking it's funny.

I bought this book last year at a reduced price. I haven't felt so short-changed since that awful Bill Bryson one.

Now where's my Jim Davidson autobiography?

11 comments:

  1. Having an outside lav, tripe for tea and only one bath a week is nothing to laugh about.
    Sx

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  2. Oh dear - Poor Geoff.
    Why do you punish yourself like this?
    I quite liked 'Things Can Only Get Better' about his thankless (pre Blair) pursuit of a Labour victory

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  3. Come on Geoff, you'll be telling us next that you don't piss yourself watching "My Family".

    (That's the TV programme of course, not my family)

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  4. Scarlet - It is if you went to Cambridge.

    Kaz - This one's supposed to be informative, but most of all, funny. It was very wearing from page one.

    Rog - My Family is the tip of a very big iceberg which includes a lot of critically acclaimed and award-winning comedy.

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  5. which awful Bill Bryson one?

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  6. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid.

    Awful.

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  7. ah yes that one, also the one where he walks everywhere, that was boring.

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  8. It's all just an endless game of musical chairs featuring middle class twats exchanging 'witticisms'.

    I prefer bare knuckle boxing me.

    And ferret fancying.

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  9. Ziggi - America didn't want him so they fobbed him off on us.

    Garfer - Salt of the earth.

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  10. "It is if you went to Cambridge"....tea down the front of my shirt - a first!

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