Even with David Baddiel at the helm, Channel 4′s distant programme “A Stab In The Dark” was notoriously unfunny. Witness the young Michael Gove – about six and a half minutes in – interviewing a pretend robber as a group of badly dressed youngsters try to laugh along. Words fail me.
hat-tip: New Statesman
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