Stopped laughing yet?
Or still can't get enough of that, edgy, provocative, experimentalism that is modern British comedy?
This witless line would probably make older women in any audience feel insulted and uncomfortable.
It was said on BBC 2's show Mock The Week on Wednesday. And it was said about the Queen.
One of the comedians on the panel came out with this pearl of comic genius when asked to come up with something in response to 'What the Queen didn't Say in her Christmas Message.'
Coming during the Ross/Brand storm, it has gone by without so much as a whisper. But it shouldn't be allowed to. I would urge you strongly to complain.
As we at the New Culture Forum said this week, the cultural establishment has, over the past decades, been remarkably successful in setting a tone of public discourse which brands public feelings of disgust, anger or violation as simply the ravings of the provincial and reactionary.
This brand of cultural nihilism - because that is what it is - makes those who feel affronted easy to mock.
Or, as was said on Newsnight this week by a defender of Ross, they can be written off as, quote, 'Daily Mail readers and people like that.' The arrogance is astounding.
But as we have seen this week, ten, twenty or thirty thousand people bothering to complain starts to have an impact - especially when such complaints are made to bodies like the BBC, which rely on those same people to stump up the money for their very existence.
I would say that such a comment about the monarch would strike most of us as being, at the very least, low in the extreme. In which case, don't let it pass. Make a complaint today.
