Oh, who wants to hear about the Oscars, or the funny sh*t that Gaddafi’s been saying now? Yeah, well get with the now, it’s all Charlie Sheen we want now! (Seriously why? But that’s for another time)

At the beginning of the year, Channel 4 embarked on a new adventure into the world of topical comedy affairs with various people on the 10 O’Clock show, with which they would battle against the goblins of the news world to burn the one true ring in the lava pool of lies. While telling jokes probably.

The thing was, the programme didn’t get off to a flying start with various comments made by those with various devices attached to the interweb, mainly about how bad it was with the over the top audience, bad set comic set pieces, and not living up to the standards set by the American Import, the Daily Show with Jon Stewart.

Jon must have called the controller of Channel 4 a rude name as he have been removed from More 4’s schedules (Oh yes, real prime time TV scheduling here) and then put back it seems, which unless you had watched it on a late night after having your arse waxed for a bet while drunk, lived in America long enough in order to have heard of it or googled it as what I had to do the first time it was mentioned, would you even care?

Given that the 10 O’Clock Show has been fighting on, weighing 700 stone and wheezing while smoking 12 cigarettes at once given the lashing it had from the first week, the production team will have had chance to iron out some of the “niggles” as it were, instead of doing something more interesting like seeing what objects we can hold in our folds of fat on our bodies, let’s see what’s changed between then and now.

Charlie Brooker, who at first seemed amazingly uncomfortable starring to the cold dead live lens, perhaps in fear that someone was going to sneak up behind him, basically has settled into his familiar Screenwipe role, pouring over the week’s news for us while spitting bile from every hole in his body, which is really what he does best.

His onscreen demeanour seems to have improved as time as gone on, suggesting that the early jitters have begun to dissipate, and the material presented is a great improvement over the Sarah Palin piece presented in the first week.

Jimmy Carr remains the main guy doing set piece jokes in a variety of costumes, while cool and calm at all times and occasionally allowed to push the envelope back to his happier filth level, continues to labour the majority of time through jokes so badly written, Adolf Hitler’s speech at Nuremberg had more laughs. You only get the feeling that if he was allowed to go further, that he would get a better response, though not to Poland, we all know what happened there.

Lauren Laverne is still about as the token woman / regional interest object, and basically it seems that while she has tried to do better pieces than the god awful WNN segment, which was supposed to liven up news about Sudan by turning it into celeb gossip, complete with American accented tw*ts, such as discussing our libraries closing and what Egypt had to look forward to when it became a democracy, which basically was get s**t on all over again, but this time choosing who did the dump.

But she still labours too much with very weak material and frankly still comes across the last person to be picked for the football team after the guy in the wheelchair and the goalkeeper with no arms.

Finally we have the bloke off Peep Show and that, David Mitchell who wears a suit and could speak clearly, and therefore completed the ensemble. His material has been the most entertaining and informative, and he’s not really tried to do anything different since the first episode, in keeping to monologues about having a p*ss in public toilets and seemingly being under the impression that all people used to be able to go to universities for free. In what country they went for free is another question.

All in all, it has gotten better but still there is vast room for improvement.

The debates actually come across as annoying shouting contests where it’s always 2 different people on the popular side vs. 1 useless bast*rd who has been hand-picked to be as stupid as possible defending the evil forces of government or bankers, who feature on the programme regularly as easy win targets. One still feels nothing is answered during these one-sided affairs as they are always brought to an end way before we can arrive at any conclusion, so what’s the point?

When Bob Crow, the RMT Union Leader came on, it effectively became a platform for him to come across as a “very reasonable man” who was about to announce he was going to run for Mayor of London (or overlord of Earth for those in whatever wing press he kept going on about).

The original set-up for Bob coming on was about the government spending money drawing up plans against union strikes, it went completely away from that and seemed to be yet another waste of a good opportunity for dialogue about union strikes and do they work, considering that Bob Crow not only was responsible for leading people out on the Tubes Strikes towards the end of last year and achieved nothing except contempt from the travelling public.

And to put myself on the “left/right/27 degrees north” wing press he laments, he also embodies the song “Who ate all the pies?”, I love the bankers he hates and Big Bob is a c**t. What the hell, I couldn’t think of any clever way of ending this bit.

And finally, please, oh please, stop the Bankers-In-Need mock appeal. It’s just not funny any more, yes the high class bankers are still making money hand over fist at our expense, and yes they are greedy little snivelling tw*ts.

But instead of sneering at them from afar, why not go to their lair and do it all right in front of them, and really stick it to them, just like I did, when in New York, I actually went to the New York Stock Exchange and yelled at passing people in suits entering “it’s all your fault” before being asked to move on by a polite obese security guard who you could outrun just by walking.

Ok, it lasted about 30 seconds and nothing was changed by one lazy nutjob. Hey, I was on holiday and it was on the list of things to do.

But as the presenters here have Channel 4 to back them up, let’s see Jimmy Cartwheel and Lauren Laundrybasket go to Canary Wharf with a picket line outside of Barclays, shouting we will be moved for less than 1% protest movement tax or have on the big executives to justify all that has happened, and when they were going to treat us all to a nice dinner out and then we shall see some truly changing television, if that is what they are going for.

Otherwise, please, just shut up about it all.

Join us next time where we shout “Hold Me!” at passing strangers while wearing nothing but thongs.