Jonny Greenwood and Coldplay answer Fox News's jibes at Radiohead

Jonny Greenwood and Coldplay have both answered The Greg Gutfeld Show on Fox News, which has made fun of Radiohead twice this month. It began on the 7 October broadcast, two days after Radiohead were named among the nominees for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Asked who would get in, the comedian and panellist Kat Timpf said Radiohead would and should, then admitted she did not like them.

The men she went for were strange, malnourished and sad, she said, and such men always liked Radiohead, so she had spent years pretending to like the band. To her the music was elaborate moaning and whining over ringtone sounds. The clip went round the music press from 16 October, and Greenwood answered by rewriting his Twitter biography around her words.

my life in the gush of boasts..........'strange, malnourished and sad' (fox news - spits three times)

Jonny Greenwood⁵

Timpf was back on the programme on 21 October. Radiohead fans were all very angry with her, she said, though she had meant it as a compliment. Greg Gutfeld then told viewers that Radiohead were a fine band who had taken everything from Coldplay. Like Radiohead is the poor man's Coldplay.⁴

Coldplay's Twitter account thanked the show on 24 October, in a post signed PH, the initials of the band's creative director, Phil Harvey. Finally somebody had the balls to say it!⁶