Boxing Clever: the real cruelty in I'm a Celebrity is...
Ant and Dec in I'm A Celebrity? Get Me Out Of Here!
Here’s an idea for a reality TV show. Celebrity I’m a Celebrity Get me Out of Here. Rather than fading soap-stars and sexting addicts, we’d have four episodes of watching Ant and Dec buried in a pit of snakes. I, for one, would watch every last second.
Watching during the week (Virgin Media One and Virgin Media Player) m a de me wonder how A nt and Dec have got away with it for so long. U ntil a friend told me that The Inbetweeners was his favourite c omedy because it reminded him of his schooldays in England and that r eminded me of the golden truth: the Brits are much crueller than us. I don’t mean in the Cromwell slaughter sense of things, although that might be part of it too. I just mean they’ve always had a crueller sense of humour on the other side of the Irish Sea. That’s the reason they make better comedies than us — because you have to be cruel to be funny.
