satire.
Imagine my surprise when I caught an old clip online last night to discover that it was deeply unfunny, witless, light-weight, cliched ****e.
Amazing how long it took me to realise.
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satire.
Imagine my surprise when I caught an old clip online last night to discover that it was deeply unfunny, witless, light-weight, cliched ****e.
Amazing how long it took me to realise.
Your world has changed now, innit. Bantering off the parents is no longer so funny when one is also now a parent.Quote:
Originally Posted by Monty92
Blame Tony Blair. His election exposed this once and for all.
Didn't they come up with a rather amusing brand of dog food though?Quote:
Originally Posted by redgunamo
:shrug: Standard lefty 'humour'. (Not funny.)Quote:
Originally Posted by Monty92
I quite liked the song about South Africans.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
:nod: Chunky Lumps.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ash
This is the clip I watched.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
It's the horribly forced "turkey's voting for Christmas" gag at the end that really made me want to punch someone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1l1XGiXgo0
There were four channels. People were much more forgiving when we only had four channels.Quote:
Originally Posted by Monty92
Mind you, Spitting Image lost any point once Mrs T left office. The point about 'satire' in the 80s was that she was an easy and popular target, since even a lot of those who voted for her didn't much like her - plus you got the feeling she didn't give a flying one what anyone thought of her. That made her a perfect, non-polarising satirical target.
I always thought Tarrant on TV was a bit edgy when I was a kid. Then I'd watch Clive James. What happened to him?Quote:
Originally Posted by Monty92
Clive James is forever writing articles about how he's dying in The Observer, but singularly refusing to actually fùcking die. He's been at it about five years now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pat Vegas
Weren't the Clive James thing and the Tarrant thing pretty much the same? Both late Sunday night and laughing at Japanese gameshows?
He'd been on the way out, with cancer, for some time, last I heard. That was a while ago though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pat Vegas
I don't think they lost their point; I reckon they just bottled it. Tony Blair, and his administration, was ripe for similar treatment, after all, but as that would have forced them to show their true political colours, their hearts weren't in it anymore.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
It had that smug, sanctimonious git Ian Hislop at the epicentre too. I once knew someone who was at school with him. Said he was a ****.Quote:
Originally Posted by redgunamo
They would have a field day now, though. Trump, Corbyn, Boris.........they couldn't fail to be funny even with crap scripts