The Comic Strip, Part 32 - Now if there's a smile on my face, it's only there trying to fool the public

"Red Nose of Courage" - April 9, 1992

Another political one. This time the focus is on John Major.


Turns out that he was moonlighting as a circus clown.


It is nice to see a move away from the "Hollywood" version of political figures and actually work to capture them. The scenes where young John Major has been banished from the circus and finds his way to an office supply store is both completely absurd but somehow rings completely true, much like the action hero histrionics ring totally (and deliberately) false.

In the meantime, let me see if I've got this straight: At the time this was taking place, the opposition leader was Neil Kinnock. In this version, as the two opponents are supposed to fall in love, the opposition leader has to be turned into a woman. The easy way out would be to just call this character "Nellie Kinnock." But what they do instead is take Kinnock's wife, Glenys Kinnock (who was also a Member of Parliament at the time), and make her the unmarried leader of the Labour Party who then gets to have an affair with John Major. I'll bet the Kinnock house was a happy one the night this was broadcast.