Not so Comic Relief
With Comic Relief coming soon it seemed timely to air this:
Dad is relating a friend’s experiences during the last Comic Relief.
DAD: Well you know how busy Steve is, what with the magazine, the leaflet designs and everything? I mean he’s their only layout designer so he’s never short of stuff to do.
Anyway the editor of the paper thought it would be a great gimmick to invite all the local business people to appear with his own staff in a photo wearing their red noses for Comic Relief. Nice idea, wealthy people showing solidarity with the not so wealthy and all that. Trouble is about two hundred of them turn up for the photograph, but only about three have bought red noses and brought them with them. But the paper’s shelled out for food and drink and got all these people together so they’ve got to take the photo anyway.
So next day Steve is given the task of using his computer to Photoshop red noses on all the tight bastards who wouldn’t shell out for an actual plastic one. That’s the photo that appeared in the local paper. And that’s the kind of people who were being photographed.