Hot Seats! Hot Seats, Yeah!

[rionaleonhart]

(Riona and housemate Rachael have returned from a trip to the supermarket. Riona checks the Internet.)
Riona: Rachael!
Rachael: What?
Riona: While we were out, David Cameron became Prime Minister.
Rachael: Oh, God! This is what happens when you leave the house!


Had to crack up at Charlie Brooker's response on Twitter: LEAST SEXY PRIME MINISTER EVER

It's not the outcome for which I was hoping, and Cameron still terrifies me, but I do find it hilarious that the media have been portraying our political turmoil as a massive Cameron/Clegg slashfic (this manip was on the BBC website, apparently). And, as was pointed out on the Alternative Election Night, a Conservative government means these are going to be a great few years for satire (a Conservative-Lib Dem coalition probably even more so. Are Cameron and Clegg going to be living together at Downing Street, thus making the running of this country into a ridiculous sitcom? I do hope so). Every cloud has a hilarious lining!

(Here is a video on the BBC site of Clegg arriving at Number 10. Is it just me, or is Cameron's body language incredibly, creepily possessive?)


Anyway, you already knew that David Cameron was Prime Minister. To continue the entry's theme of 'Things You Already Knew': SO IT TURNS OUT THAT I WAS IN THE ROOM WHEN CHARLIE BROOKER WET HIMSELF ON LIVE TELEVISION. I can't believe he actually wrote about that in a column. That's amazing. It would have been a great fact for Would I Lie To You?

Also, in case you're interested but somehow missed it, the first episode of Charlie Brooker's new Radio Four panel show, So Wrong It's Right, aired yesterday. The panel were David Mitchell, Victoria Coren and Rufus Hound; you can listen to it here if you're in the UK. My favourite part, predictably, is about seventeen minutes in, when Mitchell gets shirty with Brooker for calling him 'smartypants' and then comes up with an entire bitter reality TV premise in response to it; this was recorded over a year ago, so I'm delighted Mitchell and Brooker had chemistry even then. I want Mitchell, Brooker and Coren to be on everything together. (They're all on tomorrow's episode of You Have Been Watching, incidentally: ten o'clock on Channel Four.)


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Comments

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

Have you seen the demented Apple Daily videos? This one has Brown and Cameron dragging Clegg into bed (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KP61tuLcVEA), and also features Simon Cowell with hearts in his eyes at Cameron. It's genius, I want those people to do our upcoming election.

And is tomorrow's You Have Been Watching the one with the puppet?

[inappropriately.livejournal.com]

No, this is the Bastard Special; the puppet one is the Children's TV Special. This is the one with David Mitchell advertising "Kiddytips".

[rionaleonhart]

That's absolutely bizarre and sort of brilliant.

Mr Fuggles is probably going to be on next week's episode, I imagine. I do so hope they keep the snog in, although I suspect it's unlikely.

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

It's like a game of the Sims 2, really.

[inappropriately.livejournal.com]

So Wrong It's Right made my evening yesterday so much better.

"You wouldn't call me that in real life."

I can't decide whether your sitcom idea would make things so much better or so much worse for the country.

[rionaleonhart]

I loved it! But I hope that since then their relationship has developed to the point at which Brooker does casually insult Mitchell in real life, because their mutual mockery is such a part of my headcanon.

[inappropriately.livejournal.com]

A year is a long time, so I imagine (and hope) that this is the case. The comfortable-ness of The Unbelievable Truth is slightly lacking in So Wrong It's Right; again, a year is a long time.

Thinking about it, Brooker seems tentative about insulting him, which suggests he doesn't get to do it very often and wants to be careful about where the line is. Although he is like that with everyone when he's not in full Screenwipe-persona mode, so I don't know.

OH GOD HELP ME I AM OVERANALYSING

[rionaleonhart]

I love that they seem to be more comfortable with each other every time they appear together. From tentative insults to perpetual insults to playful shoving! ♥! They are wonderful.

[th-esaurus.livejournal.com]

I was in a bar and a man suddenly yelled DAVID CAMERON IS PRIME MINISTER! DRINK WHILE YOU STILL CAN!!!!!

(Charlie Brooker seems like a very insecure man pretending to be a very confident man via the medium of sarcasm. I like this.)

(P.S. YOU NEVER REPLY TO MY CHARLIE BROOKER EMAILS, ARE THEY NOT SEXY ENOUGH FOR YOU ]8)

[inappropriately.livejournal.com]

(Charlie Brooker seems like a very insecure man pretending to be a very confident man via the medium of sarcasm. I like this.)

You've got it in a nutshell. He is excellent.

[rionaleonhart]

(That is a spot-on description of Brooker.)

(Oh, I'm sorry! I enjoy the e-mails, but my present university panic (TWO DISSERTATIONS AND TWO ESSAYS DUE IN FIVE DAYS AUGH) mean that I'm even more prone to thinking 'I'll reply to this later' and then completely failing than usual. Whoops.)

[rionaleonhart]

...I thought for a moment there that your Matt Smith icon was my brother Joseph, incidentally.

[th-esaurus.livejournal.com]

YOU THINK YOUR BROTHERS LOOK LIKE EVERYONE.

[rionaleonhart]

LOOK, I CAN'T HELP IT IF EVERY MAN IN THE WORLD LOOKS LIKE EITHER ONE OF MY BROTHERS OR NEIL PATRICK HARRIS.

[wanttobeatree.livejournal.com]

But do your brothers look like Neil Patrick Harris?

[marginaliana]

That "smartypants" exchange was just about the most ridiculous and adorable thing I could have hoped for from the two of them in the same room together. My tinhat makes me read this as them just getting together at that point, and then now that they've been together for a while, they're ramping up the public flirtation in preparation for coming out.

[inappropriately.livejournal.com]

My tinhat makes me read this as them just getting together at that point, and then now that they've been together for a while, they're ramping up the public flirtation in preparation for coming out.

Great minds think alike.

[rionaleonhart]

It was lovely! I think I'm being only slightly biased when I say that, with the obvious exception of Webb, Mitchell's interactions with Brooker tend to feel more personal than those he has with anyone else on panel shows.

[kerrypolka.livejournal.com]

Are Cameron and Clegg going to be living together at Downing Street, thus making the running of this country into a ridiculous sitcom?

OMG someone make this happen

Someone make this happen right now

[rionaleonhart]

I shall exercise all my political force!

[loz]

I think I'm terrified most by the notion that Thatcher was in any way 'sexy'. I mean, I know there are people who say she was, but, um, I like to pretend those people don't actually exist.

[rionaleonhart]

Oh, come on, who doesn't want to be dominated by Lady Thatcher?

[loz]

I already was, thanks, and it scarred me for life. At times, it's made me one of those God-awful idiots who decide they don't like someone because they "support the wrong party". So, the answer there would be 'me!'

[missnoface.livejournal.com]

This is what happens when I don't pay attention to the news. I hate being at the heart of Tory Town.

[rionaleonhart]

YOU DON'T PAY ATTENTION TO THE NEWS, AND WE ALL END UP WITH A CONSERVATIVE IN DOWNING STREET. I HOPE YOU'RE HAPPY.

My constituency has been Liberal Democrat since its creation, but turned Conservative this election. SIGH. And then, four days later, our new MP confessed his adultery. THIS IS NOT A GOOD START, MR GOLDSMITH.

[anewcitylife.livejournal.com]

...Oh, you've got Goldsmith. You poor sod, he right gives me the creeps.

[rionaleonhart]

Thank you for your sympathy. I was very unimpressed by the constant questionnaires coming through our door, cunningly hiding the 'tick here to no longer be harassed by the Conservative Party' option by sticking the box in the 'this is administrative stuff, to be filled out by people who aren't you, don't worry about it :D' section or by having a tiny space to tick, rather than a box, because having a box might tip people off to the fact that there was something to tick. HE IS CLEARLY A MANIPULATIVE ARSEHOLE, GUYS. I DON'T KNOW WHY YOU VOTED FOR HIM.

[missnoface.livejournal.com]

I KNEW I SHOULD HAVE VOTED FOR THE LOONEY PARTY. Obsessively pressing F5 never gets me anywhere. And when I do go "Oh, what is happening in the news today?" the words NEW PRIMINSTER 8D was a bit of a shock.

I had my brother pull over and rip down a "VOTE CONSERVATIVE" sign before this whole hoohar, but it did little good. I missed my chance to egg Cameron at my Sixth Form one year too; I could have been on the receiving end of one of his quips, damn it!

[mortingtonbear.livejournal.com]

Your comment about the creepily possessive body language video has now kind of made me slash the new government. WTF brain?

[rionaleonhart]

If you visit uk_lolitics (or indeed pick up a newspaper; everyone seems to be describing it as a marriage), you will find that you are not alone!

[draegonhawke.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the plug! As I said, your FList is win. ^_^

[rionaleonhart]

You're welcome! I hope you find the players you need.

[fireholly.livejournal.com]

No, that is not just you. Cameron has his hands on Clegg like Clegg's his wife and he's seen someone more handsome staring at her. Him.

[talcat.livejournal.com]

That's what I was trying to say!
He was very "Mine! Mine! Nick and number 10 are all MINE!!

[the-wanlorn.livejournal.com]

LOLING FOREVER AT CHARLIE BROOKER

[wanttobeatree.livejournal.com]

David Cameron's body language in that clip screams possessive with I think a hint of "teenage boy taking his date to the prom."

[darkest-alchemy.livejournal.com]

Your/your housemate's reaction to Cameron becoming PM is hilarious.
(my brother honestly did a proper double take when we heard about it yesterday evening. It was so sudden. Yet it seemed like they assumed everyone already knew but no one in my family had heard already, and I came online afterwards and even well after he got to Downing Street, Yahoo news still hadn't updated to actually say he was PM so I think loads of people were pretty shocked by the speed of it)

And I'm *really* trying not to start writing crackfic slash about Cameron/Clegg but it's bloody hard to resist when the media so obviously 'ship them. (My brother reckons Clegg will be sleeping on Cameron's sofa from now on).

[misskass.livejournal.com]

IS THERE ROOM IN YOUR HEADCANON FOR DAVID MITCHELL OCCASIONALLY DRAGGING AS AN AMERICAN WOMAN? http://community.livejournal.com/randompictures/8780582.html

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

Great, today at work they talked about putting me on TV (local news) and I immediately go read Charlie Brooker's "You will suffer unbearable terror and possibly piss yourself!" column.

That's going to make the anticipation fun.

And I'm going to spend the next several years envisioning the government of the UK in slashfic form. I think that'll be more pleasant than living through The Tories Strike Back.