I think Brooker said it bestHe looks like Nicolas Lyndhurst playing a french policeman
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Marxist Pig Better Red Than Smeg,
Mon 30 Nov 2015, 21:58,
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"The thing about Syria's president Assad is he's a sort of accidental despot.
He was training to be an opthomologist at the Western Eye hospital in London when his brother was killed in a car meaning he had to go home and inherit the family business of iron fisted bastardry.
It's basically a rags to wanker story. But despite being roundly condemned as horrible and ruthless, he's sort of awkward and gawky looking - the least physically terrifying villain since Count Duckula. In fact I can't quite work out which non-threatening thing he most looks like. He's a bit like Lord Percy from Blackadder or Nicholas Lyndhurst playing a French postman.
Sometimes he looks like he's played by Odo off the entertaining Deep Space 9"
(He was training to be an opthomologist at the Western Eye hospital in London when his brother was killed in a car meaning he had to go home and inherit the family business of iron fisted bastardry.
It's basically a rags to wanker story. But despite being roundly condemned as horrible and ruthless, he's sort of awkward and gawky looking - the least physically terrifying villain since Count Duckula. In fact I can't quite work out which non-threatening thing he most looks like. He's a bit like Lord Percy from Blackadder or Nicholas Lyndhurst playing a French postman.
Sometimes he looks like he's played by Odo off the entertaining Deep Space 9"
blugg (it's all gone horribly wrong),
Tue 1 Dec 2015, 10:56,
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