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A strange sense of humour 

Tuesday, 28th October 2008

Between them, Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand have managed to bring Left and Right together. James lays in to them at Coffee House. John Harris joins in at the Guardian:

Agreeing that too much TV and radio is getting ever more coarse and idiotic doesn't strike me as a sop to the authoritarian right. I don't understand why Jamie Oliver apparently decided his mission to save Rotherham from bad food meant he suddenly had to start liberally using the F-word, or why BBC1's Traffic Cops is such a swear-fest; it bothers me that so much TV - from Spa of Embarrassing Illnesses, through the X Factor and on to Channel Five's surreally sadistic Unbreakable - depends on humiliation and borderline misanthropy.

I think I know where all this started - in the early 1990s, when the sloughing-off of political correctness began to render generosity of spirit unfashionable.

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