Tabloid imitates art

From the Mail on Sunday,

Captain Darling: I'm as British as Queen Victoria!
Captain Blackadder: So your father's German, you're half German, and you married a German!

From Blackadder Goes Forth,

His wife is Spanish, his mother Dutch, his father half-Russian and his spin doctor German. Is there ANYTHING British about LibDem leader

One of these is comedy; the other is deadly serious.

Sad ain't it?