Tim Burgess’s Piers Morgan takedown was the subtlest burn and all the better for it
It’s not the first time Tim Burgess has taken aim at Piers Morgan with supremely satisfying results.
You might remember back when Morgan’s exit from Good Morning Britain last year prompted the Charlatans frontman to remember this tweet from eight years previously.
Wow @Tim_Burgess – 56k tweets for 68k followers.. no wonder you can’t sell a bus ticket these days! Night, buddy.
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) November 9, 2013
Which he then used to devastating effect.
Night buddy x https://t.co/F5vukKnhX0
— Tim Burgess (@Tim_Burgess) March 9, 2021
His latest takedown is less spectacular but only marginally less satisfying for it, coming after new figures showed the ratings for Morgan’s new Talk TV show have fallen 80% in a week.
Here’s how their latest exchange began.
How’re those viewing figures doing @piersmorgan? 😉 https://t.co/F5vukKnhX0
— Tim Burgess (@Tim_Burgess) May 4, 2022
A lot better than your last three album sales 👍 https://t.co/YtVQ5XaNMk
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) May 4, 2022
But Tim is an artist, fame is a by-product of what he does. But you, you don’t ‘make’ anything. No-one plays you at their wedding. No one turns to your work to soothe their soul. Twitter followers etc just don’t mean to artists what they mean to you.
— Shaparak Khorsandi 🌻💙💛 (@ShappiKhorsandi) May 4, 2022
🤣🤣🤣What a load of old cobblers. https://t.co/nb9PHAG6b6
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) May 4, 2022
Man, just take a seat for a damn minute. You trade on division and picking on others, you use follower numbers to attempt to belittle people, you shout about ‘snowflakes’ when you have a fragile ego. Let’s not forget that some awful things have happened on your watch. Pipe down
— Tim Burgess (@Tim_Burgess) May 5, 2022
.. and you’re a pompous fading cliché-ridden old rocker desperately trying – and failing – to stay vaguely relevant by using my name to get Twitter likes, so we make a right pair. Pipe down yourself.
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) May 5, 2022
Ending this here. Just left a message on my answerphone for him https://t.co/jq5cS8Vcal
— Tim Burgess (@Tim_Burgess) May 5, 2022
Triumphant last word to the Charlatans man.
If you’re into pompous fading cliché-ridden old rockers desperately trying – and failing – to stay vaguely relevant…
(@piersmorgan)All shows sold out. A few left for @o2academyed pic.twitter.com/XS2QuNpRPf
— Tim Burgess (@Tim_Burgess) May 5, 2022
Boom.
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