‘‘PEOPLE LIKE COLDPLAY and voted for the Nazis. You can’t trust people, Jeremy.”
Super Hans, the crack-addicted dispenser of violence and wisdom in the noughties sitcom Peep Show and the Tory cleric, Jonathan Swift, might not be obvious bedfellows. True, they both share a profound talent for the scatological: Hans memorably compared the act of giving birth to “frogs coming out an arsehole” whilst one of Swift’s most popular poems reaches a denouement when he realises that “Celia shits!”
Both loved ecclesiastical politics; Swift’s career as
