Jim Davidson gets stuck in an eco protest and bags his biggest audience for years

It was the Elephant and Castle rather than the jungle, but that didn’t stop the comedian showing his celebrity side

Swirling reality currents this week, in which not only is Noel Edmonds entering the jungle, but Jim Davidson has been caught up in an eco-protest. Though their deeper meanings remain tantalisingly obscure to me, these news curiosities feel significant. Or at the very least, the buildup to a Victoria Wood digression which ends: “Ooh, that reminds me – I must get the Christmas gammon.”

We will begin with misunderstood yesteryear funnyman Jim Davidson, who is finally back on the BBC! BBC London News, to be precise, after a climate protest blocked traffic up round the Elephant and Castle. As the camera crew sought to interview drivers, who should wind down the window of the car at the very front of the queue, but former Up the Elephant and Round the Castle star Jim Davidson. (Listen, I just type this stuff.)

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