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]

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.

[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)

[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.

[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

[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.

[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.

[mortingtonbear.livejournal.com]

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

[draegonhawke.livejournal.com]

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

[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.

[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.