Posted in Spain, satire on Aug 9th, 2007 No Comments »
Following on from the furore caused by the cartoon of the Spanish crown prince fucking his wife from behind, and in the process earning a potential €2,500, the Barcelona-based magazine, El Jueves, printed a much-needed rectification.
“This is the cover we wanted to publish!”, the cover screams blissfully. It shows a prince bee with his […]
Posted in aesthetics, Spain, satire, Art on Aug 8th, 2007 4 Comments »
Satire is a funny old game.
A couple of weeks ago the Spanish government announced a new pregnancy incentive. It guaranteed a payment of 2,500 euro to the parents of every new child born in the country. The Barcelona-based satirical magazine El Jueves (Thursday in Spanish) decided to comment. The result was the above cartoon, which […]
Posted in satire, TV on Jul 3rd, 2007 4 Comments »
There’s a new one-off special of Armando Iannucci’s The Thick of It on BBC4 tonight. According to the listing “the career of spin doctor Malcolm Tucker (Peter Capaldi -pictured) is hanging in the balance.”
Those looking forward to the second series have to wait the outcome of Chris Langham trial, unfortunately.
The clip below suggests […]
Posted in satire, Film, TV on Jun 15th, 2007 No Comments »
Chris Morris has always been a bit dodgy. Well, to be more precise he’s always been several types of dodgy, but most are the good type rather than the bad.
In the current lexicon of British satire I suppose he’s considered ‘edgy’, always pushing out the margins of what is acceptable, although part of […]
Posted in satire, politics/Ireland on Apr 30th, 2007 2 Comments »
I watched the second part of “The State of Us” with a couple of friends last night. We couldn’t really find the words to review it, so we made a video tribute instead. Enjoy.
Posted in satire, Irish election, politics/Ireland on Apr 23rd, 2007 2 Comments »
Almost all TV critics, when under whelmed by the first offering of a new series that they expected to be great because of the pedigree of those involved, will tell us that they would prefer to restrain their full fury about its lack of worth until after more episodes have aired.
‘The series needs to […]
Posted in satire, Fine Gael on Apr 10th, 2007 No Comments »
Why is there no decent political satire on the telly anymore? Is it that our politicians are so laughable that they do it for us?
Well, it seems that its all moved to YouTube.
The Politicalthicko says: “I’m Enda Kenny and I’m Deadly….. in a Knife Fight”.
Via VoteTube
The Beautiful Relationship
Via Memex […]
Posted in satire, Media on Apr 3rd, 2007 No Comments »
I got a nudge from Jim that Dublin Opinion was mentioned in the Irishman’s Diary in today’s Irish Times(Sub Req). Of course, he told me that it was a reference to the 1930’s ‘humorous’ magazine and not our piddling blog, but I had a look out of interest.
The article is about Blather, written […]
Posted in Middle East, satire on Mar 30th, 2007 3 Comments »
A third letter has been written by Faye Turney, the female lead sailor belonging to the 15 strong British crew currently residing at the pleasure of Mr Ahmadinejad in Iran, the Guardian reports. British tabloids have barked in horror at her being ‘forced’ to wear a headscarf while appearing on Arabic TV telling an international […]
Posted in satire, Ireland on Mar 12th, 2007 5 Comments »
This is all so true, alas.
Donagh adds, for good measure:
Brian and Peter discuss Irish drinking habits
