Alan B'Stard is a High Tory MP whose ambition is only excelled by his ruthlessness. If you know the New Statesman then you will know the animal that we are dealing with. Extremely funny but I doubt whether this will transfer well over to the US. This is not because of any bitchy complaint about "Americans don't get irony"(although a lot of that features) but because the series was so very rooted in its own zeitgeist of Thatcherite Britain. You laugh so much only because recognition of the series' targets hurts so much and if you weren't personally there then the less obvious gags will inevitably fall flat. Still, B'Stard is a creation of comic genius.
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