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Nesrine Malik on the dreadful state of UK's so-called satire

Started by Shoulders?-Stomach!, October 11, 2020, 06:20:47 PM

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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/oct/11/spitting-image-british-satire-powerful

I know this is initially about Spitting Image which we have a thread for, but it goes on to expand at length about how there are no longer daring, challenging programmes or enough genuinely anti-establishment comedians in mainstream UK culture.

Fambo Number Mive


greencalx


Fambo Number Mive

Is there any modern satire which isn't written by the comfortable? There's no anger in British satire. Compare something like The Onion which is often quite biting, and not just against Trump.

Jumblegraws

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The Skewer, which Malik promoted on her Twitter account subsequent to writing that article, does a good job imo. Probably helps that it his an open door policy for submissions, so despite being put together by Jon Holmes, it's mostly made up of outsider ideas.

gilbertharding

This article is five years old, and, depressingly current:

https://newhumanist.org.uk/articles/4919/the-strange-death-of-british-satire

Suggesting the problem is that satirical tone has been coopted, made ubiquitous, and therefore neutered. That's assuming satire ever served a useful purpose.