Adur & Worthing's new recycling policy.

This week's Harald has surpassed itself with it's choice to blindly promote the local council in whatever pathetic venture they try to promote, and as usual the only thing they are promoting is themselves.

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Yes, it appears that the council's recycling policy now includes the recycling of shit 70s jokes instead of consigning them to landfill where they truly deserve to be.

The only thing funny about this pair's "act" is that they believe it's funny. Now if this was a character comedy about a couple of old farts who think they're funny when in fact they are just living in a past that never was, that might work, but sadly these two are the real life "Smashie and Nicey" or "Crème Brulee" of the comedy world.

What is funny, is that they seem to think that they are similar to "Morecambe and Wise", well, there are two of them......... No, sorry can't spot any other similarities I'm afraid. These two are more like the embarrassing drunk relative at a family wedding, who seems to believe that the awkward laughter they receive is somehow a sign of their "obvious" comedy genius, when in fact they are still telling the same "jokes" that you never found funny in 1978.

Talking of 1978, I did actually laugh when reading this story, as when it claims that Mendo is using "material...gleamed from constituents' letters", I assume that he hopped in a time machine back to 1978 and plagiarised material from someone like Jasper Carrot (possibly, I think that he did these originally along with the "real" insurance claims) who wrote these jokes the first time around.

Suggesting that people may have heard these "jokes" before is an understatement, as a quick Google search suggests.

Yes, at least 16,400 people have "heard it before", I wonder if they're recycling the one about the man next door's "unsightly erection" or the one about the kid next door who's constantly "banging his balls against the wall"? They were part of the original script if I recall correctly.

The idea of a stand up comedy duo who don't actually write any material and rely on thinking that they are funny, rather tan actually being funny, is a nightmare, and I suggest that anyone booking them make sure to search the audience for tomatoes before they go on, although if Mendoza's history of violence and abuse is anything to go by, I expect that they may well make front page news when a heckler is punched or racially abused.

All that said, there is still room for comedy in politics, I spoke to Dennis Skinner the other week, and the man is a comedy genius (as well as a very well respected politician), check out some of his quotes, you won't be disappointed, and it's all original material too, shot straight from the hip.

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