Fire up the engine, the clickbait machine has gone into overdrive. Mr S doesn’t spend much of his time watching America’s Daily Show for obvious reasons: life is short and sermons are best delivered on a Sunday. Yet, stumbling across Monday’s episode of the late-night satirical programme, Steerpike couldn’t help but reflect on the sheer crassness of its host Trevor Noah: a man who has done for comedy what Harold Shipman did for palliative care.
As predictable as he is tedious, Noah, inevitably, seized on the imagined ‘backlash’ which has – supposedly – greeted Rishi Sunak’s appointment to the premiership. In an achingly right-on monologue, accompanied by the hollow whoops of his vacuous audience, Noah stuck it to all those xenophobes shocked, outraged and appalled by a Hindu becoming a British PM.
In vain, did Steerpike await the evidence of such a ‘backlash’, which naturally served as the pretext for Noah delivering a ‘brutal’ slap down against his fantasy British bigots. Indeed, the only name that he offered up was, er, Tucker Carlson: an American (not British) fellow presenter, which perhaps hints at the true motives behind Noah’s obsession.
Having duly done his shtick railing against the racists – whoever they may be – Noah then used Sunak as a stick with which to beat the UK. King Charles was mocked for being ‘the King of Jamaica’ – colonialism amirite?! – despite successive governments of that democratic sovereign nation choosing to retain the monarchy over 60 years. Clearly, Noah knows better.
Outrage-manufacturing is one thing but hypocrisy is quite another. Having sniggered at Sunak’s success, Noah and his coterie of jejune fanatics then suggested that, somehow, Sunak isn’t actually Asian because his family hails from the subcontinent. Talk about outing yourselves. All this to hysterical applause from an audience that wouldn’t see the irony if it slapped them across the face.
Maybe Trevor ought to focus on fixing the jokes, before trying to play politics?
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