Dan Rhodes - When The Professor Got Stuck In The Show
This is hilarious, keep proper belly laughing at it.
It's about a fictionalised and 'thrice-married' Richard Dawkins getting snowed in at a vicarage with his 'male secretary'.
If you like Barney Farmer's The Male Online, it'll be well up your street.
Has lots of puerile jokes, especially with the place names ("The trouble is, it can be a bit of a tight squeeze getting into Back Bottom; the road there is tricky at the best of times, who knows what state it will be in tomorrow? Still, if I can get the four-wheel drive as far as Front Bottom I should be able to navigate the ridge that separates the two....")
It also has one of the most perfect description of many cantankerous male Urban 75 poster/social media commentator:
"he had been a self-diagnosed depressive, a redundant divorcee-in-waiting who rarely left the house. He had spent his days hunched over his computer wearing makeshift pajamas, and sometimes not even those, as he wrote comment after comment on Internet news sites.
He had been quite the expert on a range of topics: climate change; library closures; Iran's nuclear capability; infant nutrition; aspect ratios; press regulation; immigration; taxation; arts funding; assisted suicide; hacking; fracking; twerking; Pussy Riot; truancy; US fiscal policy; human rights; Vince Cable; free schools; Katie Hopkins; drone strikes; Operation Yewtree and more than anything, religion. He specialised in an absolute conviction that there was no such thing as God and at the first opportunity he would launch assaults on anybody who was not as devoutly atheistic as he was. Orphaned, and now abandoned, he was at one with all the misery of the world. The idea of eternal life horrified him and he had been drawn, inexorably, to nothingness. He needed to know that one day there would be an end to the pain and, while he waited for that day to come, word bombs flew from his bedsit on to the Internet".
