How do you ridicule someone so willing to laugh at himself?
FEW POLITICIANS like to be made fun of. Even fewer can stomach a character assassination. It takes a singular statesman to announce a leadership bid mere days after the premiere of a satirical play labelling him “one of the most divisive politicians of our time”.
If the play’s first act is toothless satire, its second is rip-roaring farce. History repeats itself—another maddening interview with the BBC, another sex scandal, another leadership bid—now with clownish exaggeration. The plot dissolves into incoherence: in one scene Johnson, Blair, Thatcher and Churchill perform the hokey-cokey; in another, Johnson gets into a televised punch-up with Gove.
Perhaps the play disappoints because Mr Johnson is not the “perfect subject”, as the playwright claims, but rather an impossible one. Trying to skewer him is the equivalent of trying to nail jelly to a wall. The politician knows that ridicule cannot hurt you if you’re willing to laugh at yourself: from
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