It’s easy to blow stuff out of all proportion, but there’s no way that this business should be carrying on 10 days or so after the fact.
As it is, both Brand and Ross have been caught up in the media circus and both suspended while the BBC’s Director General has ordered a full enquiry.
This is pretty much what happens when you get paid too much (to such an extent that people resent you for it and your apparent lack of any discernible talent) and make a series of jokes at the expense someone described on this very site as comedy royalty.
Sachs is – it should be noted – 78 years old. This is pretty old, and he is part of a different generation to both Ross and Brand. Given the formers’ role in a recent Dad’s Army anniversary celebration, however, one would expect him to show due deference instead of winding up the younger culprit into making matters worse.
Whether or not Fawlty Towers star Andrew Sachs and his granddaughter Georgia Baillie are 100% innocent in the shape and size of the resulting – delayed – media storm isn’t really relevant, although I daresay we won’t be forgetting about the Satanic Sluts and Voluptura any time soon.
It is telling however that Jonathan Ross is at the centre of a BBC storm that is being reported on quite viciously by BBC News, just months after his obscene salary was published as cuts were made to BBC News staff and programming…
As for the strength of feeling felt across the country on this matter – the BBC News “Have Your Say” page is down as I write this. Say no more.
And as far as Voluptura and Manuel and Wossy and Booky Wook Brand are concerned, Quintessential Comedy is going back to focussing on the comedy, and not the fallout. They’ve all had far too much attention here.
Although not as much, I imagine, as Ms Baillee’s Bebo page.