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Fucking hell, the BBC can't even make The Wright Way look good in its advert, who the fuck decided to commission another Ben Elton show?
— Mark (@Markd88) April 27, 2013
@eclectic_blue Think that's bad? Try "The Wright Way" on BBC1. Ben Elton written, outdated shite.
— James Hodges (@Hodges777) April 29, 2013
In fact, I get the feeling everyone has been very nice to each other this past week not because of the sun, but simply because all of their excess hate-energy has been projected at 30 minutes of not-great TV.How not-great is not-great? Well, there's a scene in which a man – Mr Wright, the lead character – accidentally wets his crotch on the sink. You know, like in that 80s Hamlet cigar ad and that 90s film with Robin Williams. And then he dries it on the hand-dryer.Then there is a joke about erections. And there is a woman who takes too long in the bathroom. Anyone who writes this off as a light and harmless sitcom trope is missing the point, because they genuinely do take far too long in the bathroom – a huge well done to Mr Elton for being brave enough to finally point this out.If anyone sees Ben Elton near a typewriter, please report to the authorities. #wrightway
— Tee My Guest (@TeeMyGuest) April 27, 2013
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What makes it even worse, everyone has decided, is that it is the product of a war criminal. No one can actually remember Ben Elton advocating an attack on Iraq, but it seems like the sort of smug and poisonous thing he'd do, doesn't it? Palling about with Andrew Lloyd-Webber. Sucking up to Brian May. Leeching around, scumming it up with all his crass friends in high places, betraying his Marxist principles, turning his back on the 80s. Ben Elton has sinned against who he was and no one is in any mood to forgive him for this flagrant act of personal growth. Because, truth be told, they've just been waiting several years for him to screw up so conclusively that there could be no slipping the noose.
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