Where the hell is the satirical TV!!!!!?????
Discussion
At such a time in British political history as now and there is not a single satirical show on the TV.
I've only just realised this when I imagined a Spitting Image puppet sitting on a floating duck island or ranting about his house looking like Balmoral.
OK, we have HIGNFY, which is superb, but it just isn't the same.
I want to see closing puppet songs of MPs singing 'Gordon is a Moron' or Michael Martin 'I Will Survive' or Steen 'Lives in a House, Very Big House'.
This is the golden age of political ridicule and there is nothing. Nothing at all.
How difficult would it be to make a few puppets, get Coogan et all back into a studio and put together some truly excellent abuse. It's not as if airtime is remotely expensive now. Producers and Directors will work for food.
This whole country seems to have gone into an unrecoverable stuper over the last 10 years.
I've only just realised this when I imagined a Spitting Image puppet sitting on a floating duck island or ranting about his house looking like Balmoral.
OK, we have HIGNFY, which is superb, but it just isn't the same.
I want to see closing puppet songs of MPs singing 'Gordon is a Moron' or Michael Martin 'I Will Survive' or Steen 'Lives in a House, Very Big House'.
This is the golden age of political ridicule and there is nothing. Nothing at all.
How difficult would it be to make a few puppets, get Coogan et all back into a studio and put together some truly excellent abuse. It's not as if airtime is remotely expensive now. Producers and Directors will work for food.
This whole country seems to have gone into an unrecoverable stuper over the last 10 years.
- June 2010 will see a return to satirical TV 
Puggit said:
Labour have a tight grip on the TV channels - no denying it.
What a load of balls.Brown and his cronies rightly get loads of abuse on HIGNFY - one of the funniest recent ones I saw the best p*sstaking was from a Labour MP....Austin Mitchell iirc. So they don't even have a tight grip on their own MPs.
Dara O'Brein doesn't hold back on his show either (the name escapes me)
Edited by Disco_Dale on Friday 22 May 14:11
Disco_Dale said:
Puggit said:
Labour have a tight grip on the TV channels - no denying it.
What a load of balls.Brown and his cronies rightly get loads of abuse on HIGNFY - one of the funniest recent ones I saw the best p*sstaking was from a Labour MP....Austin Mitchell iirc. So they don't even have a tight grip on their own MPs.
Dara O'Brein doesn't hold back on his show either (the name escapes me)
Edited by Disco_Dale on Friday 22 May 14:11
(Or so it seems, at times…)
Don said:
Bring back Spitting Image. The stuff they could do with the current situation would be just fantastic...
Unfortunately Spitting Image, like a shedload of 80s & 90s satire, was highly idealogically driven - I just can't see them turing on ZNL which enticed the luvvies to crawl up it's backside with Cool (or should that be Kewl?) Britannia.Wait until after the next election (if there ever is one) and it'll be back like a shot.
Spiritual_Beggar said:
Where's Chris Morris when you need him 
Writing a tongue in cheek mockumentary on Terrorism.Taken from IMDB
Film4 has gone where many others have feared to tread and funded Four Lions, Chris Morris' satirical and no doubt incendiary take on Islamic terrorism in the UK.Morris, the satirical genius behind Brass Eye, Blue Juice and The Day Today and a man who once persuaded Phil Collins to appear on telly in a T-shirt with 'Nonce Sense' emblazoned on the front, is promising to show "the Dad's Army side of terrorism" with a script that follows the path of four teenage Muslims into indoctrinated jihadis.Peter O'Hanraha-hanrahan Deirdre Steed, who helped secure funding to cover its £4 million budget, describes Four Lions as "a funny, thrilling fictional story that illuminates modern British jihad with an insight beyond anything else in our culture. As Spinal Tap understood heavy metal and Dr. Strangelove the Cold War, Four Lions understands modern British jihadis."The shoot for Four Lions is scheduled to start this summer.
chris watton said:
Disco_Dale said:
Puggit said:
Labour have a tight grip on the TV channels - no denying it.
What a load of balls.Brown and his cronies rightly get loads of abuse on HIGNFY - one of the funniest recent ones I saw the best p*sstaking was from a Labour MP....Austin Mitchell iirc. So they don't even have a tight grip on their own MPs.
Dara O'Brein doesn't hold back on his show either (the name escapes me)
Edited by Disco_Dale on Friday 22 May 14:11
(Or so it seems, at times…)
mouseymousey said:
Don said:
"Vegtables, Ma'am?"
"They'll have the same..."
Bring back Spitting Image. The stuff they could do with the current situation would be just fantastic...
It did come back in the form of Headcases on ITV. As with most things though, it wasn't as good as the original."They'll have the same..."
Bring back Spitting Image. The stuff they could do with the current situation would be just fantastic...
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