Albeit A Parliament Formed Of Board Game Pieces Rather Than Actual People.

[rionaleonhart]

My constituency's gone Conservative. I feel as if my vote somehow exploded in the ballot box and burnt up four thousand Lib Dem votes. Blast. Should have realised that was a risk

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[zeitheist]

As I was walking through London Victoria yesterday I spotted a stack of Evening Standards with an ad for the alternative election night on the front; have you seen it? It features a scarily airbrushed Charlie Brooker and David Mitchell (and Jimmy Carr, but lovely as he sounds I wasn't focusing on him). David Mitchell is holding a baby and looks rather scared; Charlie just looks like he's loathing Mitchell/the baby. I literally squeaked "rionaleonhart!!" and ploughed through several people to grab a copy.

Jimmy Carr being a friendly chap is oddly cheering. My mum maintains that he's smarmy and unpleasant, so this is valuable evidence to my counter-argument!

Mitchell made a joke that didn't really work, and then, after a moment, exclaimed, 'Don't give me that look, Charlie! It's late!'

Even if I'm not fully aboard the Good Ship Brooker/Mitchell, this is still sort of lovely.

[rionaleonhart]

I didn't see the Evening Standard, but I do know the picture of which you speak! It makes me want fanfiction in which the three of them accidentally kidnap a baby and don't know what to do with it. The airbrushing on Brooker is terrifying; he doesn't look real. (I'm very amused that it made you think of me.)

Many people seem to dislike Carr. I'm fairly neutral on him as a comedian, but he seems perfectly pleasant.

It makes me far too happy that Brooker and Mitchell are completely incapable of saying a few words to each other without bickering.

[zeitheist]

It makes me want fanfiction in which the three of them accidentally kidnap a baby and don't know what to do with it.

THIS WAS MY FIRST THOUGHT AS WELL. I actually picked up a copy with, if you turned out not to have seen the picture, the express intention of mailing you the ad with the words "AU IN WHICH BROOKER AND MITCHELL ACQUIRE A BABY" attached to it. But since you have seen it, I think I will put the ad on my wall instead. (Even though, as you say, the airbrushing on Brooker is horrifying. I was actually on the tube with a friend and she was reading her copy, and I suddenly blurted out "OMG Charlie Brooker looks like a haunted houseI think Carr is better when he's not recycling his old jokes; even my mum agrees that he's a lot more... personable, when he's just larking around on a panel show? He tends to tell a lot of straight-up jokes, which is good because his delivery is impeccable, but the problem with a lot of his jokes is that they don't really work the same on consecutive viewings because of the way he delivers his act.

[thesh_t]

[rionaleonhart]

A question we must all ask ourselves. I just want them to be in everything together. (As they've been on The Unbelievable Truth and the election night coverage this week and are going to be on So Wrong It's Right and You Have Been Watching next week, perhaps that's the direction in which they are heading.)

[inappropriately]

I saw you hug yourself with glee when David told Charlie not to give him that look. :D

[rionaleonhart]

I couldn't help it. They do such things to my heart.

[rionaleonhart]

I don't understaaaand. Evidently ten million people have made a horrible mistake.

(Seriously: the Conservatives have ten million votes. Labour have eight million. The Liberal Democrats have six million.

The Conservatives have 1.2 times as many seats as Labour.

Labour have five times as many seats as the Lib Dems.

OUR ELECTORAL SYSTEM MAKES NO SENSE.)

[rionaleonhart]

It's not that tiny! This is confirmation that the two of them are comfortable enough with each other for casual physical contact, which I don't imagine is a stage easily reached with David Mitchell. Awww.