David Mitchell has a snarky moment

David Mitchell, of Peep Show fame, had a lot to say about Sarkozy in his column for The Guardian on Sunday.

"Isn't Nicolas Sarkozy a funny fellow? All small and old and out of breath and falling over. Always struggling to keep up with his gigantic new wife: miserably champing on low-fat, chocolate- and cheese-free superfoods before dragging himself out for another exhausted scamper in the sweltering heat. But try as he might, he'll never be as tall or young as her. I wonder sometimes whether she's turning out to be quite as much fun as he imagined.

His desperation to come across as the youthful, fit, sexy, medium-height warrior-executive is so acute that last weekend it made him have a funny turn while jogging in the park and fall on his bottom.

I wish there was footage. Maybe he fell into a bin or got tangled with some shrubbery and lost a shoe. Maybe some kids' football strayed into his path and, in trying to pass it back to them, he toed it into his own face, staggered into a duckpond and had an undignified struggle with an angered goose. Maybe he slipped in a dog turd and skated along on it for several yards before falling face-first into a tramp's crotch. Anyway, after a little lie down in a helicopter, he felt better and now he's back to being in charge of France."

Snark or not snark? After all, The Guardian tells us comment is free.

1 comment:

  1. This almost feels like snark 'cos there's a sense of in-joke-iness about short men with tall women, and even a whiff of 'we know what them Frenchies are like'... but ultimately I think not snarky but quite funny.

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