and opposite reaction. and he wrote in the guardian, which was the paper i read and which had, what, in 2005, five million readers? it was pretty big because it was before it alljumped off the page, and he wrote this just utterly sneering review, one—star review, really snobby in that sort of guardian way, like, quoting shakespeare. i was like, "how dare you quote shakespeare at me? i'll quote shakespeare at you!" and just incredibly sneering and ungenerous, a thing that just says i'm terrible at myjob. it really, really threw me. and so, like, a year later, when i had to come up with a new show, i thought, "well, i'm going to take that guy down." so i wrote the song for phil daoust. # ding, dang, ding dang dong # this ends my phil daoust song # # everybody sing along # la la la la la la la # i hope something you love catches on fire, # phil. # ding, dang, dong, # i've written you this special song # to show how far i've come along