Channel 5’s schoolboy error describing Ben Elton was a classic of the genre

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Channel 5 News invited Ben Elton on to talk about Matt Hancock, Suella Braverman and much else besides.

Very interesting it was too – it was great to see Elton at full effect again in C4’s recent revival of Friday Night Live – but it wasn’t so much what he had to say that got people talking, but how Channel 5 described him.

And just in case that’s disappeared by the time you read this – probably not, but still – here’s the important bit again.

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And the entire internet (well, the bit of a certain age) shook its head as one. Here are our favourite things people said about it.

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