Ten weeks after ending his 16-year BBC One Sunday TV show with the words, “You stay classy, San Diego” – the sign-off of caricature presenter Ron Burgundy in the movie Anchorman – Andrew Marr signed on to his new show on LBC by hailing “a day of horror in Ukraine and growing unease here in Britain.”
Anchorman fans will recall that Burgundy is fooled into reading a banned profanity from his autocue, and Marr’s publicity interviews might have led us to believe that he planned to deliberately hurl expletives at his LBC audience. The show, he promised, would “ruffle feathers”; he had left the BBC to “get his voice back” and “speak his mind.”
