Frost Too Boring For Politicians, Says Satirist

David Frost, who once said something mildly amusing about Harold Macmillan 47 years ago, has come under fire from a yawning satirist, after tiresomely and all-too-predictably calling today’s politicians and their coalition government “too boring for satire”.

“David Frost has filled my entire lifetime with his tedious droning on and on about how he single-handedly invented satire,” said Nev, the highly self-acclaimed writer, editor and reader of The Nev Filter, “Which does seem more than slightly unfair to pioneering satirists like Peter Cook, Richard Ingrams, Willy Rushton, Gerald Scarfe and the Roman poet Martial. And as for Frost’s entire boring body of work since 1963 – putting two men called Ronald in the same studio for the first time in history, founding London Weekend Rubbish Sitcoms, giving President Nixon the chance to lie his version of the Watergate scandal, changing the face of weather forecasting forever with the huge hair of TV-am’s Wincey Willis, forcing something called a loyd grossman through keyholes, sending people back to sleep on Sunday mornings with Snoozefast With Frost and ending up as al-Jazeera TV’s token infidel, all the while developing a strange, stop-start style of mumbling which has baffled speech therapists and audiences alike into a trance-like stupor – presumably the whole sorry tale has been one long anti-establishment dig of such exquisite subtlety that only an intellect the size of David Frost’s can appreciate it.”

“I’m sorry,” he suddenly shouted, after slumping sideways off his chair. “Where was I? I think I lost track of what I was saying after the bit about The Two Ronnies. That’ll be the insidious Frost Effect at workzzzzzz”

After a brief involuntary nap, Nev promised to anyone still reading that he – along with his struggling counterparts at Private Eye, Have I Got News For You, Mock The Week, Bremner, Bird and Fortune, The Daily Mash, The Daily Fortnight, Newsarse, Newsbiscuit, The UK’s Voice Of Reason and Stirring Trouble Internationally - would keep striving to find some obscure characteristic to ridicule in pretend-commoner David Cameron, principle-whore Nick Clegg and the plastic Miliband clones in the lean years to come.

“But if not,” he added reassuringly, “We can always share a chuckle over David Frost’s hilarious sense of his own importance.”