It is being dominated by mocking comedians, moaning pundits and manipulating politicians all talking about who is insulting whom, who will and who won't be in the chamber for the speech, who may or may not be punished for not showing up, who will get an electoral advantage from the appearance, and who won't.
He then followed up his comment by mocking the comedian's original tweet. .
But the right-wing will have its say, too – not least in an upcoming BBC documentary called Holy Offensive?, in which ex-MP Ann Widdecombe investigates "why Christianity is such ripe material for mocking by comedians".
X Factor's Simon Cowell has called Russell Brand a "hypocrite" and mocked the comedian's call for revolution.
Brand uses chapstick, something a real chap would never do, and Farage mocked the comedian's "personal make-up artist" in a column he wrote after the event.
Bachmann's fear-mongering was roundly mocked by comedian Stephen Colbert and harshly condemned by the largest newspaper in her home state of Minnesota.
She tells the story offhand and without a hint of sentimentality; her grand finale mocks comedians who wring tears to win prizes.
$1,600: This game-show host has been mocked by comedians for decades and made to look like a fool on national television in front of his family.
In recent years, though, Mr. Castro, now 77, has seemed more and more of an anachronism -- someone mocked by comedians and caricatured by editorial cartoonists.
The accusation sparked a heated, intense back-and-forth clash, leading an exasperated and red-faced Mr. Romney to shout: "Are you just going to keep talking or are you going to let me finish?" Perhaps mindful of having been mocked by comedians as practically comatose in previous debates, Mr. Perry, who has fallen precipitously in the polls in recent weeks, appeared anything but sleepy.
In 1978, he decided to keep a lower profile and moved to Malibu Beach in the US - where he shed much of the weight that had seen him routinely mocked by comedians like Freddie Starr.
