Mordor Productions, the production company behind the BBC’s Question Time programme, have hit back today at accusations they planted Sauron in the audience for last night’s episode from Chester.
The company has long courted controversy by accidentally finding failed UKIP and Conservative party electoral candidates repeatedly in its audience. Who then further surprise by banging on with Brexit bot tropes all show.
“They keep wearing false moustaches when they phone up to be included in the audience,” Anne Orc, head of casting for BBC QT told LCD Views, “and the regional accents they put on are something else. I’d love to know who their voice coach is.”
But it seems they’ve really got themselves into a fix now that an actual known dark lord of evil has appeared to shout and bellow about respecting the result of the advisory referendum, now proven to be riddled with illegality and fraudulent.
“How were we to know it was Sauron?” the Mordor Productions rep demanded, “was he wearing that giant eye when he emailed for inclusion in last night’s show? No. He was wearing a giant, spiked helmet. We’re as much the victim here as British democracy and BBC credibility.”
Approached for comment on what now appears to some, but not us, the dodgy track record of the show’s production team, in terms of audience plants and balance, an imaginary voice from the BBC’s commissioning team responded,
“Please send all your enquiries to 55 Tufton Street where a dark money stooge will be happy to set up a straw man. Anyway, what the actual did you expect when you allowed us to ‘out source’ a key plank of our democratic experience? Of course it was going to be instantly corrupted. That’s what outsourcing is about. If you don’t like it. Change it.”