It can’t have been good news for Piers Morgan that in the week CNN chose to debut his new show in the US, another Brit, comedian Ricky Gervais tanked horribly and very publically at the Golden Globes. Whatever the faults and foibles of tinsel town, whatever the vulgarities, idiosyncrasies and sheer egotism, Gervais’ descent into the gutter clearly outraged many who were there – and they can’t all have been suffering from a sense of humour failure. Welcome then to below the belt, needlessly vicious, British humour. Sure it doesn’t have us all rolling in the aisles here, but as with our tabloids and low grade political class, this is the common language of dumbed down Britain. Continue reading →