Barrister not questioned but questioned
Ah Joly. Never change. You’re comedy gold.
This headline, in The Times, is flatly untrue. I have not been questioned by the police. At the judges’ [sic] request, they contacted me with her question. There has never been, as this headline suggest [sic], any police investigation.
Got it. He has not been questioned by the police, the police have merely asked him a question. Glad we got that straightened out.
You see, the police weren’t really questioning him, they were just passing along a question from the judge, so it totally doesn’t count.
“Look, it’s not as if the POLICE think I may have been in contempt of court. It’s only a JUDGE who thought that.”
He’s just helping the Met with their inquiries (dunno if he’s in London)…
He really is an astounding comic character. He has all the self awareness of Ricky Gervais in The Office and the pomposity of Captain Mainwaring in Dad’s Army, as well as Mainwaring’s ability to lead his platoon into a fine mess every episode. I wonder if he has the same long-suffering underlings in his employment?
Hahaha how did I not think of The Office?
Also a healthy dash of William Shatner in Boston Legal.
I don’t know Boston Legal. I do like William Shatner though so will catch it some time.
Dad’s Army came to mind because Captain Mainwaring would come up with some hare-brained suggestion and Sergeant Wilson, terribly, terribly gentlemanly would say, “Do you think that is wise, sir?”
So when Jolly Morning has a brainwave to sue Elon Musk, I imagine an underling saying, “Is that what we do, Joly? Is that really us?”
Shatner’s character in BL is a relentlessly sexist reckless conceited charismatic clown/shark. James Spader is the junior version of all that plus a verbal genius. Entertaining stuff.