The country has erupted because a couple of comedians took a joke too far on a radio show. A radio show that was pre-recorded and available for moderation, I might add.

It took the top slot on Sky News and co, prompting me to wonder if there really was no other news available. Everyone’s bored of the financial crisis. The US attack on Syria has been forgotten. But Brand’s tasteless remarks about Andrew Sach’s granddaughter is now the top most newsworthy story. No news is indeed good news.

I would like to point out that although you don’t go around telling her grandfather in a lewd way, Brand did have a relationship with this poor woman that probably involved sex. She now claims her life is ruined. She must be gutted. I can’t even remember her name and can’t be bothered to look. Don’t worry, love, you’ll be forgotten in a couple of short weeks. It’s certainly lucky she knew someone at the Sun newspaper through whom she could tell her horrific life destroying tale – presumably in case some people didn’t know her or what she’d been through. Is she not now destroying her own life? Is this suicide? Is the newspaper going to get dragged through the courts for assisted suicide?

Brand has resigned – perhaps this is the best outcome for him as his semi-notorious reputation is now resident in the Halls of Notoriety – right up their with Johnny Rotten (John Lydon) and Freddie Starr. Lydon, formally of the Sex Pistols, is a property developer and can be seen advertising butter on television in case you’d forgotten about him.

Ross is the subject of an emergency meeting at the BBC to discuss his future, whilst being currently suspended from working. I hope he is on full pay whilst this enforced. He has a family and might well have a mortgage or two or three or four to pay. It could create another credit crunch if he goes down. His £6m a year salary will probably crop up during the executive’s discussions, I would assume.

Has the world gone mad … again? Brand is a rude comic, always on the edge. Ross is a bit more polished but has always been risqué. If you found their material offensive, you wouldn’t listen to the programme, would you? That’s probably borne out by the one or two complaints at the time of the broadcast, which (given subsequent publicity) has now risen to 30,000 or so. I would guess that 29,998 of those did not hear the original broadcast. If no one has said anything, no one would have known or cared.

“It’s license payers money!” they scream. Yes it is, but I don’t remember signing a legally binding contract with the BBC for them to produce only material that I like. The stuff that I don’t like – which is most of it – I don’t watch. The fact I have to pay for the license is only a fact and is the law. It’s an unfair law in my opinion, but a law all the same.

It was offensive (to Sachs senior – I suspect the young lady was glad of some publicity at first) and it did cross the line. The BBC should’ve intercepted and stopped the programme being broadcast. They didn’t. Should someone have reviewed it before it went out? Yes, of course. The two comics apologised. That should be it. The rest is just bored news hacks stirring up news where there is none. Turn it in. It’s boring.