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I can't believe Solon was nominated let alone won: she egotistically performs every monologue in a different accent even though she can't actually do any of them accurately, her delivery is hideously laboured, but above all, she resorts to shock value for every singlejoke. After making homophobic gags in the first two pieces the third consisted entirely of a rant against the Chinese - not because the country has a poor human rights record or consumes too much oil, but because the Chinese have 'small feet' and are all 'crouchy tigery, hiddeny dragony'. I'm sorry but that's disgustingly racist. I can put up with and indeed relish any amount of offensive humour so long as it's funny, but when it's just empty attention-seeking it's intolerable.
Bee, November 2005
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