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.
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