I must say that I agree totally and wholeheartedly with this Guardian article: I’m spazticus has to be one of the funniest things on tv at the moment, and my full respect must go to channel four for airing it. And I’m not just saying that because I’m a disabled man…at least, I don’t think I am. I find myself wondering if I’m being objective, whether I unconsciously feel obliged to laugh given that it my own subculture which is at last on tv. I don’t think so: any way you look at it, there were moments of utter genius on last night’s programme. It laughs with us not at us. I especially liked the ‘money for a disabled person’ sketch, although I must say that I find the actor in it, simon Stevens, a bad choice for this programme. Stevens is something of an outsider in the disabled community; his views are seen by many as discriminatory and damaging. He has written (here for example) that he thinks that the disability movement has been hijacked by those he calls ‘fake disabled people’, those he sees as having less profound impairments. Thus I have real reservations about him being on this show, but that is just a minor qualm about an otherwise great programme. I’m spazticus smashes the taboo: it is at last okay to laugh at cripples.