Handforth beats woke comedy hands down Handforth's has struck a chord not just because of our boredom - it is an exposition of the national character at its most petty 20 February 2021 • 5:04pm Wednesday nights just ain’t what they used to be. Last week, I along with thousands of others, tuned in to a long-awaited public spectacle. Not a coronavirus press conference, bullfight or football match, but the latest instalment in the Handforth Parish Council saga. The original video is beyond parody: suffice to say that I ended up pulling an abdominal muscle from hysterical laughter. It offered the full English of slapstick and audio-visual farce – low quality cameras, spluttering mics, random background noises. Within hours of its emergence, it was trending and – like a Cheshire version of Kim Kardashian’s bottom – it was threatening to “break the internet”.