Fury at Channel 4 comedy over ‘D**okay of the Year’ Braverman stunt
Ex-minister Suella Braverman has been pranked by a Channel 4 comedy programme into accepting its D**okay of the Year award in particular person.
The former residence secretary was duped by a pair of YouTube jokers, Josh and Archie, who had been employed by The Last Leg to pose as constituents with a fictitious firm.
Ms Braverman, who has taken a hardline place on stopping small boat migrants crossing the Channel, attended what she thought was a naming ceremony for a vessel on the River Wallington in Fareham final week.
But when she unveiled the plaque it as an alternative named her because the winner of the award, which was put to a vote of the programme’s followers of X, previously Twitter.
The phase mocking the previous senior minister is because of air at 10pm tonight, Channel 4 confirmed. It declined to remark additional.
An ally of Ms Braverman mentioned: ‘It may have been a bit funnier.’
The former residence secretary was duped by a pair of YouTube jokers, Josh and Archie, who had been employed by The Last Leg to pose as constituents and set her up for the puerile joke.
The Last Leg is likely one of the channel’s hottest reveals. It is hosted by Adam Hills, Josh Widdicombe and Alex Brooker and first ran alongside the channel’s protection of the 2012 Paralympics.
It has run the D**okay of the Week competitors for a decade.
The phase mocking the previous senior minister is because of air at 10pm tonight, Channel 4 confirmed. It declined to remark additional.
Josh & Archie have greater than 1.5million followers on their YouTube channel. They have beforehand carried out pranks towards targets together with Just Stop Oil, whom they surrounded with a counter protest by individuals carrying t-shirts saying ‘simply cease pi**ing individuals off’.
In a press release the Youtubers mentioned: ‘We knew Suella favored boats, and photocalls, so we hope she is going to forgive us for organising this ruse which was actually all about celebrating her and her award.’
The Last Leg is likely one of the channel’s hottest reveals. It is hosted by Adam Hills, Josh Widdicombe and Alex Brooker and first ran alongside the channel’s protection of the 2012 Paralympics.
Australian Hills was born with one foot and Brooker had a leg amputated as a child, main them to explain the present as ‘three guys with 4 legs speaking concerning the week’.
It has run the D**okay of the Week competitors for a decade. The inaugural title went to Vladimir Putin and the winner has all the time been a right-wing politician or commentator, and normally a senior Tory minister. Viewers additionally named David Cameron D**okay of the Decade.
The channel’s comedy programmes have earlier kind for sending up Tory politicians. In 2018 two, together with former chief Iain Duncan Smith – had been duped into discussing a faux cocaine-selling app.
Ross Thompson, Conservative MP for Aberdeen South, was additionally tricked by TV present Ministry Of Justice into speaking about ‘InstantGrammes’, which he was instructed helps Colombian kids.
The fictional smartphone app was mentioned to promote medicine with a proportion of the earnings getting used to assist children in a cartel’s ‘cocaine manufacturing facility’.
While Ross Thompson nervous that the app ‘makes medicine look cool’, Sir Iain tried to reassure viewers that GCHQ would cope with the menace.
The hilarious footage was harking back to the 1997 sketch on the Channel’s Brass Eye satire present by which the late Tory MP David Amess was duped into referring to fictional drug Cake as ‘an enormous yellow dying bullet’.
