I suppose we couldn’t consider ourselves truly Web 2.0 without being able to dump some videos onto YouTube, so now we have a page (or is it a ‘channel’?) over there for that purpose.

(For some reason, someone decided 18 months ago to set up a user account called ’stopboris’, upload nothing, watch only 52 videos and then never log in again for at least the past year, so unfortunately we’re stuck being called ’stopboris2008′. It’ll do.)

The Stop Boris channel includes some good clips from elsewhere on YouTube in the Favo[u]rites section, plus any videos we upload ourselves.

First up on that front are two clips from tonight’s Bremner, Bird and Fortune from Channel 4.

The first highlights the lack of deep substance in Boris’s campaign: Boris Boris Boris.

The second features the regular middle-class dinner party characters discussing the Mayoral election.

I don’t like the homophobic stuff around Brian Paddick in that latter video. I’m sure they’d defend it as ironic or as representing the homophobia inherent in the middle classes or whatever, but it seems that the only laughs you could get in that part of the sketch would come from laughing with, rather than at, the homophobia. On the plus side for Brian, if the best satire they can manage against him is that, I suppose he can’t be doing anything particularly bad in his campaign!

The Boris material is better, anyway, but hopefully there is better still to come in the remaining two programmes before the election on 1 May.

And on a related note, Have I Got News For You? returns in the nick of time at 9pm this Friday on BBC One, giving them two weeks to try to put the monster they’ve created back in his box. Given Paul Merton’s comments in the Guardian last year that he didn’t think Boris would be any good at being Mayor (culminating in "Boris can’t look after his bike properly – how’s he going to look after London?"), here’s hoping the topic comes up.

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