F-bombs away as Sessions launches Salmond diatribe
HE shot to fame with his often earthy and outrageous skits on improvised 1980s TV comedy Whose Line is it Anyway?
But now veteran funnyman John Sessions has pushed the boundaries of taste again with a foul-mouthed broadside aimed at Alex Salmond.
The Largs-born QI star branded the First Minister a t***, claimed he would not trust him to run a council and came out as an enthusiastic supporter of UKIP.
The former Jackanory host adopted a distinctly adult tone when asked for his views on the upcoming referendum.
The 61-year-old, who lives in
‘Don’t get me started about independence’
Wimbledon, said: ‘Don’t get me started about independence.
‘Would you want Alex Salmond as the head of the f****** council?
‘I think I’ll go and live in America if that t*** gets in.
‘People died for centuries to get these countries together and this guy shows up. He can’t understand why the Europeans are saying, “We don’t want you to fragment – stay with Britain”.’
The openly gay actor, who appeared in the Oscar-winning Martin Scorsese film Gangs of New York and played former Prime Minister Ted Heath in The Iron Lady, added: ‘What was his (Mr Salmond’s) latest one? There will be an extra £1,000 for everybody.
‘He has got to be joking. By the time you have changed the letterheads and the department names (after independence) Scotland will be in the red from here until eternity. It is just so mad.’
Sessions, a staunch supporter of Nigel Farage, added that he would like to see the Scottish and European parliaments abolished: ‘I voted UKIP and think that the European Union is the biggest money-wasting piece of s*** that ever drew breath.
‘I absolutely detest the idea of the EU. Who are those idiots to tell us what to do? It goes right to my guts.’
The comedy actor’s favourite political moment of recent years came when the UKIP leader confronted EU President Herman Van Rompuy, telling him he had ‘the charisma of a damp rag and the appearance of a low-grade bank clerk.’ Sessions, added: ‘It was nectar to my ears.
‘I thought, “Thank Christ! Those arrogant suits”.
‘Nothing is more guaranteed to create problems between the European states than this absolute, wholesale waste of money.
‘The amount of money that is p***** away on all that nonsense, we could feed the Third World six times over.’