TOO EARLY FOR SEASON’S GRATINGS : The BBC is under pressure to issue yet another apology for a broadcast mishap after they broadcast altered footage of the Three Wise Men visiting Baby Jesus.
While the broadcasting of the actual video footage of the nativity is not itself controversial, and has become a British tradition since it was first beamed out to the nation over two thousand years ago, sharp eyed viewers noticed a new member of the cast this year.
“Boris Johnson is there now,” a media analyst revealed to LCD Views, “holding a bus made out of empty wine crates. Apparently a gift to the messiah? Not sure it’ll sit too well next to the gold and myrrh to be honest. There’s little people painted down the side. One of them is screaming.”
How Mr Johnson came to be inserted into the archive film is only too clear.
“The BBC are saying it was an error in the editing suite. But that seems a little unlikely. You don’t just find video of a failed Churchill tribute act shoving a poorly made wooden bus into a cot, before necking the wine, boring Jospeh half to death about Theseus in a wool shop and then topping it all off by getting into a fight with a camel and falling asleep amongst some frightened sheep.”
It’s likely a qualified apology, of the “I’m sorry, but” kind will issue forth from the fortress of Broadcasting House some time today. But I think we all know what really happened there.
“I’m surprised they thought they’d get away with it after that special BBC current affairs edition that showed Boris Johnson beating Edmund Hillary to the top of Mount Everest. They didn’t hurt his prospects in the polls at all. Whatever the BBC is up to, what people see is what they recall.”