Time Trumpet

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Anyone else watch this? Thought it was brilliant, very Brass Eye/The Day Today-esque. The Blair/Cameron duet on "Changes" was particularly good...
 
Brilliant. The actor played Beckham very well, and Jamie Oliver was hilarious visually. Agree about the "changes" thing.

Shows like this tend to be hit and miss, but I reckon 90% was right on the money.

I will definitely be tuning in next week.
 
Because of the Day Today/Brass Eye etc link I probably went into this with expectations too high. Parts of it (I also enjoyed the "Changes" bit at the end) were hilarious but on the whole I was disappointed
 
Of course the usual crazy stuff from the lads, but the older versions of Charlotte Church, Beckham and Jamie Oliver were very good.
 
A big disimprovement last night. I was fierce disappointed. The Brown Blair succession thing was funny, but I was seriously underwhelmed by the Ant and Dec stuff, as well as the bacon stuff, which is getting less and less funny as time progresses.

Interestingly enough, next week he shows Blair being shot by terrorists and al-Qaeda flying a plane into the Houses of Parliament.
 
Hmmm.... I wonder if it will be shown, or we'll get one of those hand-wringingly pious voices intoning 'in light of recent events... ' or, in light of this week's non-events, fortuitously.

Meandering, as an elderly old crone does, somewhat off-topic now, but does anyone else find all those nannying, caring warnings before scenes of puppies crushed by their 35-stone owners more sickening than most things you'll ever watch? "Contains some scenes which viewers might find disturbing/distressing/idiotic... " Oh, for God's sake - it's just a bellowing kid covered in jellyfish bites at Bude, not a public dismemberment.

And as for the film ratings now - 'contains mild violence' - what's that, a tweaked ear? Or just a broken arm if it's Tarantino?

I can't help but feel that one day I'll be nannied caringly to death in Boots the Convenience Store Which Used to be a Chemist, with endless voice-overs exhorting me to eat five tons of vegetables a day, ask impertinently if I've had my flu jab (thanks, but it's entirely my business if I want to die of respiratory failure), and to slather myself in radiation-defying petroleum-based goo. "What was that?" I shall wonder in alarm, concerned I may have missed vital information on preventing night cramps - missing my footing on their vertiginous escalators and plunging to a fragrant death amid the Special Offers in the perfumery department.

Enough already with the insidious messages of imminent mutilation by safety razor, of unseemly demise lurking in every packet of peanuts which "Make Contain Nut Traces!", toothpaste which advises strongly not to eat it (and there I was, desperate for a Colgate-and-cheese sarnie), and plastic bags which 'may cause suffocation' if worn closely as facial adornment. The relentless note of hysteria permeating Britain at every level needs all of the shooting-down it can get, if not by ground-to-air missile, then by effective and very brutal satire. If 'Time Trumpet' can manage that, it'll be doing a better job for the health of society than any amount of bleedin' obvious so-called safety messages.
 
Did anyone watch The F Word last week with Gordon's pigs getting slaughtered? That was a tad unpleasant.
 
I did watch the pigs getting slaughtered - I think it's good that people get to see what actually happens to their food before it gets to the supermarket shelves though, gruesome or not. I did remark at the time that the animal rights brigade would love that one though.
 
Time Trumpet was absolutely brilliant tonight. Masterful satire from Ianucci and truly hilarious at the same time.

Tesco going to war with Denmark
Rape an Ape
Rape a celebrity ape
Princess Diana theme park

All brilliant bits, I imagine there will be some brass eye style complaints about the Diana sections though.
 
Does laughing at the Terrorism Awards, including Osama Bin Laden's nomination for the Jumbo Jet that chopped the head off Big Ben, mean I'm going to hell?
 
Started watching it and unlike most of his stuff I didn't like it so am watching House instead. Hugh Laurie is excellent.
 
I missed the last couple of weeks but yesterday was a big improvement on the first episode - absolutely hilarious. Tim Henman had me in stitches and the whole terrorism spoof was brilliantly done (especially the 'dropping buildings on planes' bit) - although I'm sure there'll be a scathing editorial in the Mail before long (if one hasn't been written already)
 
Originally posted by Happy Jack@Aug 25 2006, 02:13 PM
although I'm sure there'll be a scathing editorial in the Mail before long (if one hasn't been written already)
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I think thats the reaction he's probably trying to provoke, the fact he is satirising publications such as the Mail would make the whole thing rather ironic.
 
Originally posted by gamla_stan@Aug 25 2006, 03:18 PM
Tescos war with Denmark
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Oh dear, that's SOOO funny! I've missed all this - no telly here [it's kaput] and I haven't been abe to watch any for weeks, so thanks for the link. I *really* loved the 'Military Wing of the Labour Party'

Iannucci used to write a satirical political column in The Telelgraph which was great; but he gave it up after 'New' Labour had been in power for about three years, on the grounds they were beyond satire, and no parody he could invent was as bizzare as the actuality. Glad he's found his voice again!
 
Originally posted by Headstrong@Aug 25 2006, 09:27 PM
Iannucci used to write a satirical political column in The Telegraph which was great; but he gave it up after 'New' Labour had been in power for about three years, on the grounds they were beyond satire, and no parody he could invent was as bizzare as the actuality.
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Er, not quite. He moved to his weekly column from the Daily Telegraph to the Observer where he remains a regular.
 
Oh good, I'll check it out. The Observer has got much better lately so I've been told - ie more broad-based, and some interesting columnists have joined

I was just reporting what Iannucci wrote when he signed off in the DT.
Made sense to me... :P

[And don't blame me for the last 9 years, I NEVER voted for the Blairite Succubus Party]
 
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