Mark Steel
Posted Fri May 19 09:00:54 BST 2000 by Jon
A spin-off of the J.Lecoat strand:
From amazon.com, a review of M.Steel's autobiography, by a reader in Cleveland:
Steel is a Brit who fancies himself a comedian of the radical proletariat. Alas, he's really just a not-very-funny guy with a chip on his shoulder. He is so in love with his self-image that he cannot see his own failings. Case in point: He declares that Americans think the city they live in is the same as the whole world, proving this by citing Chicagoans who failed to laugh at a joke based on the fact that all the north-south streets in the city's grid system have names and the east-west streets all have numbers. Well, aside from the simple truth that the joke wasn't very funny, perhaps Chicagoans were silent because they were too polite to point out that he was wrong; most east-west streets don't have numbers. Gee, Mark, perhaps if you weren't so parochial and presumed that the few streets you saw represented the whole city... Need more proof? Consider the story in which he pats himself on the back for beginning a gig on the day Margaret Thatcher resigned by shouting "Well, she's f...ing gone." Gosh, Mark, what biting social satire.
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Posted By Anonymous on Fri May 19 16:04:03 BST 2000:
Yes,I do agree with that one.Mark steel is from the Jeremy hardy line of "comediens"-right on,SWP politics and jut a slight step up from undergraduate reasoning.Armchair pilgers.
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Posted By subbes on Fri May 19 22:01:01 BST 2000:
But Jeremy Hardy has nice hair.
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Posted By Jon on Fri May 19 22:20:04 BST 2000:
That doesn't excuse him.
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Posted By subbes on Fri May 19 22:32:24 BST 2000:
But it's hair!
it's nice!
...I'm shallow.
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Posted By Jon on Sat May 20 10:12:23 BST 2000:
Actually, I saw J.Hardy once and he was good. He's boring when he overdoes the politics, which is why his journalism is tedious, though sometimes worthy.
M.Steel is Hardy without the humour, ie. a complete waste of time and space.
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Posted By Jon on Sat May 20 10:13:41 BST 2000:
Looking at it again, don't you think that amazon review was propbably written by an ex-pat. Briton? Why would an American want to read Mark Steel's autobiography anyway? Why would anyone?
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