If you have not yet, please watch SBC being given the Charlie Chaplin Britannia Award For Excellence In Comedy at Saturday night's Britannia Awards.
Here's Deadline's summation:
[One BAFTA exec told me later that they were up until 3 AM just trying to clear all the legalities of Cohenâs acceptance bit which involved presenter Salma Hayek on stage with someone rolled out in a wheelchair she very believably identified as Grace Collington, an actress she said appeared with Charlie Chaplin in 1931â˛s City Lights at the age of five. âAt 87, sheâs the oldest surviving actor to have worked with Chaplin in a silent movie,â she told the audience as the woman sat there. When Cohen came up to accept his award from them, âCollingtonâ warmly presented him with one of Chaplinâs famous canes. He then proceeded to push her off the stage and she landed face down, motionless and apparently dead on the ground. âGrace Collington is the oldest, sorry, was the oldest⌠I dedicate my award to her. Itâs obviously a tragedy, but on the bright side what a great way to go. Sheâll probably make the Oscars In Memoriam section⌠Anyway tonight is not about her, itâs about me,â he said as the limp body was carried out of the ballroom to rollicking laughter of the sort you rarely hear at these events.
Because comedy should always be judged democratically, a poll.