What could possibly have stopped this one getting on? Apart from the usual lack of jokes, crap ending, etc...
MILES:
A Commons committee has backed Chris Patten as next chairman of the BBC Trust. Always nice when MPs use the word "trust" in their recommendations. Patten, whose most famous achievements include losing his seat at a general election, giving Hong Kong away, and being a second world war general (superbly played by George C Scott) will be under pressure to freshen up the Beeb, especially given his admission that he doesn't watch or listen to that much of the corporation's output. To examine the implications, I'm joined by the BBC's irrelevance correspondent Anna Anananas for this week's 60 second interview.
F/X60 SECOND INTERVIEW TICKING STARTS AND CONTINUES IN BACKGROUND
MILES:
Anna, what will Chris Patten's appointment mean for the BBC?
ANNA:
Can I stop you there Miles?
MILES:
Not for long, this is the sixty-second interview.
ANNA:
That's just it. Lord Patten is likely to want to reduce repetition in the BBC's output.
MILES:
Reduce what?
ANNA:
Repetition.
MILES:
Repetition? I see. But how is this related to my sixty-second interview?
ANNA:
Because this is your sixty-second interview.
MILES:
I know, that's why we have the tick-tick tick going on in the background all the time UNLESS IT'S ACTUALLY IN MY HEAD MY POOR HEAD WHAT IS IT WITH THAT TICKING!?
ANNA:
No, you've misunderstood. This is your (EMPHASIS) 62nd interview.
MILES:
I'm sorry?
ANNA:
This is the fourth series of Newsjack, and until now there have been 61 sketches involving you interviewing an expert or a correspondent. Most of whom have been female, often with quite unusual surnames.
MILES:
Really?
ANNA:
Yes. Probably. And I'm the 62nd.
MILES:
Oh dear - does this mean we'll be in trouble with Mr - I mean Lord - Patten?
ANNA:
Probably not. He doesn't listen to Radio 7, even the repeats.
F/X:TICKING STOPS
MILES:
Anna, thank you. And thank God that ticking's stopped.
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