... As long as you're well connected to the powers that be .
With the success of CHEWING THE FAT and STILL GAME BBC Scotland had a couple of well deserved smash hits on their hands and in their haste to follow this up they executed anyone muttering important concepts like " Quality control " and replaced them with pretentious sycophants
BBC Scotland have mirrored the Soviet Union . If CHEWING THE FAT and STILL GAME were the television equivalent of Lenin's New Economic Policy then they've shot all the kulaks and replaced them with LEGIT , GARY'S WAR and LIMMY'S SHOW . I'm finding it difficult to work out what show's worse but this one might be the deserved winner
LIMMY'S SHOW is highly surreal , and highly , highly unfunny . Apparently Brian Limond ( Limmy ) was discovered via his own website and had a highly successful podcast , so apparently he got this gig because someone liked his " Glesga patter " . That someone must be the only person in Scotland taken by Limmy's humour in that case . To give you a clue how bizarrely esoteric the sketches try this one :
Two rockers listen to Mahatten Skyline by Aha . The guitar rift breaks in , the picture freezes and Limmy walks in to the picture : " Right next time you're in a pub toilet , take out a pen and write " Benny Havey RIP " on the door . If you're too young to go to pubs scratch " Benny Harvey RIP " on your school desk . Who's Benny Harvey ? No idea "
And if you're waiting for a resolution or even a punchline to any of the above you'll have a very long wait
BTW if anyone from BBC Scotland is reading this looking for some hot new talent who will appeal to both the proletariat and kulaks alike drop me a line
