Saturday, June 26, 2010 at 5:00pm

A comedian created the ‘Best Party’ and won 34.7% of the vote.  Now he’s the mayor of a city with 1/3 of Iceland’s population.

In his acceptance speech he tried to calm the fears of the other 65.3 percent. “No one has to be afraid of the Best Party,” he said, “because it is the best party. If it wasn’t, it would be called the Worst Party or the Bad Party. We would never work with a party like that.”

With his party having won 6 of the City Council’s 15 seats, Mr. Gnarr needed a coalition partner, but ruled out any party whose members had not seen all five seasons of “The Wire.”

Well, “The Wire” is the best TV show I’ve ever seen.