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Originally Posted by Mr_love_monkey
No offence - but were you even old enough to watch it??? 
To be honest I think we've been missing a political satire programme for quite a while - I think given the current political climate, it's just crying out for a return of something like spitting image.
Do we actually have any political satires these days?
Mark Thomas, I guess - but his series tend to be few and far between, though very good. Rory Bremner - same thing, and he's moved too much to prime time, so it's not adult enough... |
Bremner, Bird and Fortune is quite good, except when Bremner goes off on one of his own political rants. So long as it's satire, it's great, but sometimes I think he thinks he's a Lib Dem MP making a speech. Spitting Image went the same way in its later years, as far as I remember (and it was a long time ago!) Early on, it was very good at satire and side-achingly funny. Towards the end it was a bit wet round the edges so far as the witty scrptwriting was concerned, and had developed a sideline in these Bremner-esque poitical rants that were intended to make a point without even trying to be funny. In the context of a programme featuring latex caricatures of famous people, it just didn't work.
Of course, Spitting Image took a wider view of the week's news than does BB&F, which is largely about politics. I always thought their royal family sketches were among the best. And their songs were also memorable, from the completely bizarre (Chicken Song, anyone?
) to the rather blunt, like the anti-apartheid anthem,
(No I've Never Met) A Nice South African. 