Iannucci, Hare, Bennett and Brigstocke ... Yes! I've made it. Thank you, David Aaronovitch for including me, the lowly host of BBC 4's The Late Edition, on such an exalted list of satirists and playwrights - albeit in a column that made about as much sense to me as the plot of Lost.
Much like the brightly coloured island drama, Aaronovitch's article (on politics and the extent to which comedians and satirists understand any of it) kept starting exciting and engaging ideas, and then ... oh, look over there: another half-finished, half-remembered, half-arsed idea. Who are the others, and what do they want, anyway?
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