Satire is wounded

Is this the real life? Photograph: Getty

There are times, Brian May playing God Save the Queen on the roof of Buckingham Palace in 'homage to Jimi Hendrix at Woodtsock', for example, when life seems so absurd that it defies satire. It satirises itself. Chris Morris couldn't have made it up.

This is one such moment.

Crazy Frog meets Harold Faltermeyer at the top of the charts.

Tom Lehrer famously apocryphally said, when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace Prize, that Satire was dead. Things may not be that bad here, but when Crazy Frog is the nation's most popular piece of music we can say safely that it is gravely wounded.

Updated 16:00 Ouch, said satire again when it heard about a new Channel 4 show putting OCD sufferers in a house together.