I didn’t think I would post an entry today, but I just watched the first fifteen minutes of Michael McIntyre’s Big Show and suddenly felt compelled to say something. I had seen it advertised a few days ago and thought it looked interesting. Would somebody please explain to me why something so awful, so childish, so base is doing on British television, much less being screened as the highlight of bbc one’s Saturday evening schedule. In the quarter of an hour I saw, McIntyre had ‘borrowed’ some dude’s mobile phone and was going through it, embarrassing him in front of the entire nation. It was somehow supposed to be funny – McIntyre and his audience seemed to find it hilarious – but all I could do was cringe, before getting up out of my chair and turning the shit off. If this is the height of mainstream mass entertainment in the UK, then surely we have reached a new low.