It's hard to be funny...when you have to be "clean"

I love Mae West. She used her brain in spite of her body. And surprisingly sharply too. The reason I mention her is because her type of woman seem curiously lacking on television these days, particularly on ITV. The usual suspects presented the news last night. One older or less attractive man, one nymphets who spent her time responding to the older, less attractive man and showing off her ribcage and a weather forecaster who should be a skinnier version of the nymphet. Seriously though, someone needs to get those girls some cream cakes. The weather girls are dangerously underweight with an overdose of make up and heads that wobble around when unsupported like a famine victim. Most of them cannot be considered attractive by men and many look like heavily made up brooms in wigs. It’s quite terrifying that ITV is so heavily pursuing the route taken by its American counterparts.

Its programmes are terrible too but you do get the feeling that it’s in someone’s portfolio as a ‘loss leader’ like value cereal. So cheap someone will buy it but also so bad that no one will really enjoy it. Sometimes when you flick through you imagine people slumped on their sofas watching
‘Family Celebrities Getting Us Out Of Wishing We Were Watching Coronation Street, Emmerdale and Heartbeat while being Framed in Naughty Blunders With Club Reps, Tricia and Trevor McDonald Tonight.”

It does get on my nerves because it could do so much better!