61 / Go John Safran, you beast!
There is not much original television around … then again, look no further than John Safran’s Race Relations. The man gives a totally new meaning to the term, ‘having balls’ … goodness, does he have balls.
His show is about, well, race relations. He’s a bit at odds with being a Jew and tries publicly, on television, to come to terms with his jewishness and the fact that he’s attracted to women of other faiths. Or something like that.
Back to his balls. In the last episode he interviewed David Irving, the British Holocaust denier. My god does he have his way with him. Irving is an idiot, a bigot, a vile, truly repugnant person. Safran asks him, “so what about the grandmother telling their grandchildren about how she narrowly escaped the gas chamber while all her relatives were murdered?” Says Irving, “well, they’re all lying, or at least they’re delusional … they have implanted memories from going to the movies too much.”
Safran manages not to throttle him then and there. Instead he announces that this was the first part of the interview, soon to be resumed … he’ll just go and have a pee. Once out the door he jams it shut with a broom, proceeds to a gas bottle and pipe he had brought along, lowers the hose into the interview room, opens the gas regulator and shouts at Irving, “I’m gassing you, Irving, and when I’m done, I will tell everyone it didn’t happen!”
Can’t wait for the episode when Safran gets himself nailed to the cross in the Philipines.