“Any suggestion that RTÉ or Kevin Bakhurst has given up on comedy is simply incorrect,” is one of those perfect statements to the media that seems self-evidently true, if only because it is, in itself, quite funny.
Reading it – and this might be a niche response – I immediately pictured the population of Montrose, from the director general to the mouse spotted sauntering across the RTÉ canteen last March, collectively flagging under the pressure to rustle up some comedy and deciding it’s easier to just reject the very concept of laughter instead.
This probably hasn’t happened. I find it hard to believe, in any case, that the debacle-prone broadcaster isn’t a bastion of black humour and survivalist in-jokes, if only off-air, safely away fro
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