Alison Jackson, the film-maker renowned for making satirical (or often just straight sketch comedy) films with celebrity doubles has run up against a brick wall: apparently there is simple no one baleful enough to double for Gordon Brown’s ‘huge, bovine’ features. Jackson has been searching fruitlessly for six years, and does not appear to be too demanding – her George W. Bush looks like Will Ferrell (or is that the other way around). This will surely reinforce many people’s perceptions that Gordon Brown is simply not part of the human race.
One wonders whether the part could be played by a man with a cow head on – or perhaps even just a cow. It could be a whole new vein of political satire, replacing animals with humans. George Orwell did it in Animal Farm, why shouldn’t Jackson do it with modern politics? Answers on a postcard for equivalent suggestions, please.
Other people whom Jackson is having trouble identifying doppelgangers for include Lily Allen, Gordon Ramsay and Marco Pierre White. Are we to conclude that this triumvirate, too, is outside humanity? Allen is currently with child – could its birth herald the march of an alien boots over our fair planet? Could Ramsay and Pierre White be poisoning our minds through their culinary empires? Perhaps the invasion force is hidden inside Mercury, and is in danger of detection from Messenger. Stay tuned to this station.
If you look like Gordon Brown (if so, we have your number), open castings will be taking place at The Malmaison Hotel in Glasgow from 3pm on January 18, and at The Old Metropolitan Hotel in London from 3pm, January 21.
News hour, with Jerry Caesar 