Great Moments In 21st Century Television

I'm at the La Jolla library, next to the Bs in fiction. Apparently, Glenn Beck is a published novelist. That sort of makes me want to quit writing altogether.

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For the purposes of the following joke, let me clarify a few things. This quotation is from the first episode of Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle called "Toilet Books", wherein comedian Stewart Lee talks about the history of literature and publishing and the condition the business/profession is in today. Lee derisively reads from radio DJ Chris Moyles's second volume of autobiography, which the author himself states is about "nothing" and is just a "toilet book" full of pointless anecdotes. Lee also makes fun of comedian Jeremy Clarkson, the host of the popular BBC program Top Gear, because Clarkson is a reactionary figure who is often making sexist, racist or otherwise bigoted remarks, yet still has like twenty books published. Enjoy.

"Apparently the eighteenth century polymath Thomas Young was the last person to have read all the books published in his lifetime. That means he would've read all the Shakespeare and all the Greek and Roman classics, and all the theology and all the philosophy and all the science. But the same man today, a man who had read all the books published today, would've had to have read all Dan Brown's novels, two volumes of Chris Moyles autobiography, The World According To Clarkson by Jeremy Clarkson, The World According To Clarkson Two by Jeremy Clarkson, The World According To Clarkson Three by Jeremy Clarkson... His mind would be awash with bad metaphors and unsustainable reactionary opinion, and one long anecdote about the time Comedy Dave put pound coins in the urinal. In short, the man who had read everything published today would be more stupid than a man who had read nothing."