Not very funny Comedy Awards joke
Posted by Andrew Grant-Adamson on December 8th, 2007
There must have been a joker at the British Comedy Awards on Thursday night. The evidence is in the Guardian’s corrections column today. In the absence of any explanation of how their reporter came to write that the Turner Prize Winner, Mark Wallinger, was at the awards in a bear suit and introduced as “Muhammad”, we can only assume someone misled her.
I feel for the reporter. Once I was sent under duress to cover a rugby match and not knowing anything about the teams (there was no programme) asked for help and was given a string of invented names. No doubt the story was told with glee in the club house, but it did not seem funny to me.
And I wonder if Mark Wallinger finds it funny that Guardian Unlimited has not added a correction note to the original story.
December 8th, 2007 at 11:06 am
You write, ‘we can only assume someone misled her.’ There is another, in my view more likely, explanation. She wasn’t there. Or did you mean that?
December 9th, 2007 at 2:01 am
December 9th, 2007 at 2:01 am