THE GREAT BRITISH WAKE OFF!
IF you can say one thing about TV executives, it is that they are the most drearily unimaginative collection of numbskulls on the planet.
Once they stumble on a concept that is moderately successful, they’ll flog that particular horse to ribbons.
So, Have I Got News For You spawned the near- identical They Think It’s All Over and Never Mind the Buzzcocks.
And The Great British Bake Off led to The Great British Sewing Bee and even a Sky show about competitive woodworking – until they mistakenly enrolled a man covered in neo- Nazi tattoos.
Barrel
Now another Bake Off rip- off has been scraped from the bottom of the barrel – The Great British WAKE Off!
Amateur funeral organisers will compete to lay on a send- off spread for a recently departed person.
The rookies will each present sobbing relatives their plans for a buffet and entertainment.
And the winner is the one whose ideas most tickle the grieving loved- ones’ fancy!
A source close to the project said: “We thought that to cheer up the occasion, we have a comedian to perform at the wake.
“Each team will be given a comic to ‘ sell’ to the family. We’re thinking of pretty traditional comedians, such as Jimmy Cricket, Stan
Boardman and Tommy Cannon – who will surely be glad of the work after the tragic death of his stage partner Bobby Ball.
“We even may throw in someone like blue comic
Chubby Brown, just as a wild card!”
Last night a source at the National Society of Undertakers called the idea “tasteless beyond imagination.”