The breakfast host seems to court listeners who once complained about the PC brigade but now prefer to decry the woke mob
Radio: The Breakfast host seems to court listeners who once complained about the PC brigade but now prefer to decry the woke mobseemed mainly populated by dyspeptic males of advancing years – aka grumpy old men – who would hold forth on the follies of modern society and the general decline of civilisation.
“I think it is one of the trappings of authority and see no bloody harm in it,” Kelly says before delivering her coup de grace on the topic: “What is even the point of this rubbish?” Ultimately, the whole argy-bargy is predicated on a flimsy premise: an article written by their Newstalk colleague Simon Tierney. It underlines the stagey nature of such on-air indignation: when Kelly finally chats to Tierney about how to address teachers, the conversation is deflatingly affable. Coleman plays the role of the voice of moderation but isn’t immune to an outbreak of the why-oh-whys himself.
Yet in much the same way that both admirers and haters of the Daily Mail are never disappointed by the paper’s red-faced rants, so the duo’s theatrical impatience with contemporary foibles is all part of the package, continuing to enliven proceedings on even the dreariest news days. And, it’s worth emphasising, Coleman and Kelly do also cover the news in zippy fashion, from breaking stories to broader issues.
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