I love S.M. Krishna

I have always loved comedians. For a brief fleeting moment they take us away from the mundane to the fanciful, and give us a reason to smile. Amar Singh brightened up my life two days ago when he, in a classic slapstick situation that would have turned P.G. Wodehouse green with envy, dropped his trousers in full view of the cameras. The cameraman, not wanting to miss this God-sent opportunity, struggled to focus not-too-successfully on THE spot.

But, as I said some time back, We are not alone. I loved Ronald Reagan. That he was a professional actor before he plunged into politics was a great help. Look how he went to Argentina and, at an official banquet held in his honour, profusely and effortlessly thanked the President of Chile for having invited him to his wonderful country!

Another Ronald - Ronald Rusmsfeld, the American Secy of Defence - had us in splits when he said "Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns — the ones we don't know we don't know.” Lovely American defence strategy, that was.

I also loved Sen Ted Stevens of Alaska. Try to decipher this: "They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the internet. And again, the internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes. And if you don't understand those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material."

But my all-time favourite comedian is George W. Bush Jr. Listen to this excuse to invade Iraq: "I heard somebody say, 'Where's (Nelson) Mandela?' Well, Mandela's dead. Because Saddam killed all the Mandelas."

And now, we have our very own S.M. Krishna who joined the immortals by reading out the speech of his Portuguese counterpart at the UN Security Council. I mean, we always knew that these guys would grab anything of value; but to grab someone else’s speech – that surely is a first. Who said politicians are dull fellows!