The antidote to the election

I wasn't totally sure what reaction the last post would get, but my Friends list remains happily undiminished. In its place today, here's something related but much lighter - something that used to be a fixture for my family on Friday nights and that I've had to keep downloading to keep up with since moving here. Come to think of it, this series is now where I get most of my UK news from - and this was one of their best episodes ever. As if somebody decided the normal name for the programme just wasn't unwieldy enough, it's:

Have I Got A Bit More Election News For You (Series 39 Episode 5)

It's 45 minutes long but well worth watching, if you haven't seen it by now and/or are one of the people who have been following the election from outside the UK. I was particularly impressed with the performance of the only just defeated (the previous night) Lib Dem MP Osbit Lempik, who I hadn't really known about before this, but he seems wonderfully able to laugh at both himself and the madness of the entire election campaign. Indeed, like Paul Merton says, watching this was very therapeutic - "it's all over, now let's just take the piss out of the whole thing".