User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Reference Desk/@comment-4139960-20131130010054/@comment-9435571-20131130080329
From Tardis Wiki, the free Doctor Who reference
"I just think Russell puts enough ham on the plate that it's hard to take him seriously"
I think he's just making fun of the fact that an aristocrat is pretending to be a "common man" using a more common name as a pseudonym.
