SRHe's loving Engels instead
David Cameron , compared with Stu Richards
A Robbie Williams 'Angels' pun about a left-wing politician drifting from Marx to Engels.
“I followed very carefully his [Ed's] interview on Desert Island Discs, and I think it's fair to say, he he's no longer a follower of Marx - he's loving Engels instead.”
Prime Minister's Questions, House of Commons, 2013quote source ↗find on YouTube ↗
“he's loving Engels instead”
Club set, 2012quote source ↗find on YouTube ↗
Identical 'loving Engels' punchline about Miliband, but the pun is obvious enough that Cameron's writers could have reached it on their own.
- Premise 36/40
- Structure 22/30
- Punchline 30/30
- Premise36/40Same pun: Ed Miliband moving from Marx to Engels, told through Robbie Williams's Angels.
- Structure22/30Both go from Marx to Engels; Cameron hangs it on Miliband's Desert Island Discs interview.
- Punchline30/30The punchline is word for word: he's loving Engels instead.
Setup
Cites Miliband's Desert Island Discs interview
Setup
A club joke about Miliband and Marx
Turn
Miliband is no longer a follower of Marx
Turn
Miliband moves from Marx to Engels
Punchline
He's loving Engels instead
Punchline
He's loving Engels instead
In the words themselves
19% of the meaningful words are shared · longest identical run: “he's loving engels instead”. Shared words are highlighted in the quotes above.
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Context
When and where
Richards says he had performed the 'loving Engels' line in club sets for over a year. Cameron used it against Ed Miliband at Prime Minister's Questions in late November 2013.
What followed
Rather than complain formally, Richards wrote a parody song about the PM nicking his gag and a Chortle column on social media and plagiarism. A pun this obvious could easily have been reached independently by Cameron's writers.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: David Cameron by Lauren Hurley / No 10 Downing Street, OGL 3