I always grew up thinking that Spitting Image was cutting edge political and cultural

[Monty92]

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.

[redgunamo]

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.

Blame Tony Blair. His election exposed this once and for all.

[Ash]

Your world has changed now, innit. Bantering off the parents is no longer so funny when one is also now a parent.

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?

[Sir C]

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.

:shrug: Standard lefty 'humour'. (Not funny.)

[Burney]

:shrug: Standard lefty 'humour'. (Not funny.)

I quite liked the song about South Africans.

[redgunamo]

Didn't they come up with a rather amusing brand of dog food though?

:nod: Chunky Lumps.

[Monty92]

I quite liked the song about South Africans.

This is the clip I watched.

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

[Burney]

This is the clip I watched.

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.

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.

[Pat Vegas]

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.

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?

[Burney]

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?

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.

Weren't the Clive James thing and the Tarrant thing pretty much the same? Both late Sunday night and laughing at Japanese gameshows?

[redgunamo]

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?

He'd been on the way out, with cancer, for some time, last I heard. That was a while ago though.

[redgunamo]

There were four channels. People were much more forgiving when we only had four channels.

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 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.

[Ash]

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.

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 ****.

[Yesterday Once More]

They would have a field day now, though. Trump, Corbyn, Boris.........they couldn't fail to be funny even with crap scripts