Noted British prankster Simon Brodkin hits Donald Trump where it hurts, and columnist Pat Kane reflects. (Feel free to share your own testicular puns through social media.)
“Why Serious Stuff Still Demands a Sense of Humour”
by Pat Kane
The National
February 4, 2017
So if you”™re going to prank Donald Trump by chucking swastika-covered golfballs at him, as he opens one of his tremendous courses, you should do it at Trump Turnberry.
According to the comedian Simon Brodkin, whose stage name is Lee Nelson and who perpetrated said stunt last June, he was slumped in custody when a Scottish sergeant noted: “You”™re that guy”.
“In that moment I realised I had an ally,” recalled Brodkin this week. “They loosened the cuffs so the blood went back to my fingers and asked if I wanted some Lucozade. Big love for the Scottish police.”
In next week”™s Channel Four documentary Britain”™s Greatest Hoaxer, Brodkin also relates that the Scottish police refused to let Trump”™s secret service people interview him. Instead they sped him to the nearest airport and told him to “get the hell out of the country”.
As the furore rises around Trump”™s potential state visit, the question of how modern dissent and protest is most effectively expressed comes to the fore. On this occasion, should it be a dignified boycott by political leaders (as all the Scottish political leaders did last June), and a protest action mutually agreed between activists and police? Or is Brodkin”™s kind of hoax the best way to get an oppositional message under the plates of the Great Narcissist?
Watching the enthusiastic Brodkin”™s preparations for his hoax – involving disguise, costume (a Trump Turnberry sweatshirt), bags hidden under hotel beds and the ludicrously easy detection of the Sunbed God”™s itinerary – you imagine this kind of prank will never be achievable again.
The scene where his goons are scrabbling around the grass, filling red Trump caps with Nazi-balls, is inordinately pleasing. But no doubt the full apparatus – human and technological – of American and British national security will be sweeping and detecting every clump of cells that gets anywhere near the man-baby. Read more.