Mr Gordon Brown’s Boys

The Labour Party last night strongly denied that its New Parliamentary channel sitcom Mr Gordon Brown’s Boys*, starring the 2 protégés of long-standing Labour comedian Gordon ‘Nokia-Chucker’ Brown – The 2 Eds – was looking like a ratings failure.

They claimed that the show has yet to bed in with the political sit-com audience who – they claim – are often slow to take to a new act. As one Labour sit-com script writer said:

Look at the problem the other channels had with William Hague, Michael Howard, Ian Duncan Smith, Charles Kennedy and Menzies Campbell.

It is rumoured that the scriptwriters behind the Labour Party’s new sitcom had been struggling to come up with a catchy name for its new star double act. Names thought to have been considered include:

Knob & Ed

Knob & Balls

Ed & Ed

The Teddy Boys

Eventually, the writing team settled on the name The 2 Eds, because they thought it captured the zany happy-go-lucky comedic nature of Miliband and Balls in a way that none of the other names could.

It is believed that the labour party hopes that The 2 Eds will be as great a success as other comedy double acts like: Mike & Bernie Winters, Hale and Pace, Major and Lamont, Little and Large, Foot and Healy, Blair and Brown or The Chuckle Brothers.

Ed Balls admitted in a break in rehearsals for their next news conference:

We would have like to use the name the Chuckle Brothers, but they wouldn’t sell it to us… not yet, anyway. I may need to go round to their place for a quiet word… then we’ll see.

It is thought that The 2 Eds want Mr Gordon Brown’s Boys to bring about a revival of the heyday of Labour sitcoms of the past such as the 1970s loony-left era of Michael Foot, Nuclear-free zones, union militancy and other such zany political idiocies. There is also a rumour that the new show will include songs from a Derek Hatton & the Militant Tendency tribute band.

However, Balls and Miliband have promised their show will include the traditional Labour Party comedy blend of total economic ignorance and inept social engineering as they stumble from crisis to crisis, mostly of their own making. Many Labour comedy fans hope they will continue with the Labour tradition of each episode ending with a slapstick sketch were the Labour leadership hurling fistful after fistful of tax-payers money at their latest cock-up in the hope that it will magically make everything all better… but it never does.

The Labour Party has claimed that it has learnt from the audience ratings failure of Gordon ‘Chuckles’ Brown which tanked disastrously after the original Del-Boy Blair sitcom Only Fools and Labour Voters had run out of ideas.

Fortunately for them, despite the failure of the 2 Eds to capture the interest of the political comedy audience with Mr Gordon Brown’s Boys, the Labour party still seems inexplicably popular, despite its appalling record during the Blair/Brown episodes.

Some critics have put this continuing Labour party popularity down to the sheer blandness of the other party’s jokers, with one critic saying:

The Conservatives are really suffering in the ratings because Cameron is so bland, nothing like Thatcher who everyone pretended to hate, but – in secret – really admired. After all the people of Britain have long loved pantomime villains, which explains why people these days actually know who Nick Clegg is.

The other reason why people don’t seem to be taking to the Tory’s Dave & Gideon Show is that those that do not understand economics are outraged by the savagery of the cuts, while those that do understand economics are dismayed by the timidity of the cuts.

(*With apologies to Brendan O’Carroll)