steve coogan and the case of the missing sense of humour

Did anyone see the Steve Coogan '60 second interview' in the Metro this morning?
Good old Steve decided to use it to have a pop at Liverpool, Liverpudlians and - to a lesser extent - the Liverpool Echo.
Well, I suppose all publicity is good publicity!
And of course, he's entitled to his own opinion.
Even if it is a bit rich.
Some of you may remember that Steve brought his comedy show to the Echo Arena in October.
I missed the show, but I am well aware it got less than glowing reviews from both the Echo, the Post and also from many of the people who had paid money to see it.
According to Coogan today (in a paper that is read nationally), that's because "Scousers hate Mancunians and the feeling's mutual" and Liverpudlians can't laugh at themselves.
Well Steve, may of them couldn't laugh at you either, and not simply because there were no big screens showing your face to those further back than the 15th row.
It could have had something to do with what the Echo reviewer described as your "wafer thin material" where "the quality of the writing let everything down."
Our colleague at the Post went even stronger, describing it as a "contemptible and almost woeful show" which saw an unusually high number of audience members walking out.
And one fan said he would "rather jump on plug sockets with angry wasps in my mouth than listen to that dross again."
Putting it down to the tedious and outdated excuse of Liverpool v Manchester rivalry is disingenuous and blaming the show's failure on the audience is plainly insulting.
The phrase "a bad workman always blames his tools" springs to mind.