Here's a letter responding to a review in the LRB of a book about British comedy.
Letters
Can't you take a joke?
Jonathan Coe describes my friend Roger Law, the artist, caricaturist and satirist, as 'one of the puppeteers behind Spitting Image' (LRB, 2 November). To my mind, that's like calling Paul McCartney a 'guitar technician'. Roger, who can take a joke better than the next, nonetheless abhors in- accuracy and has asked me to tell you that he 'fùcking hates puppets'. He and Peter Fluck used grotesque latex homunculi to scandalise the bourgeoisie, piss off the pompous and give the rest of us a good laugh. Highly skilled puppeteers played a vital role, but the mind boggles at the pro- spect of Roger Law, a 6'5" giant, crash- ing about under lights on a Sunday night with his hand up Margaret Thatcher. He's bigger than that.
John Kelly
