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In the UK: Wednesday 20th, 10pm, More4
Aha! The much heralded 30 Greatest Political Comedies! No, really, it was. Okay, I’m lying, it wasn’t.
I mean let’s face it, if you were the More4 marketing department, would you bust a gut in the run-up to Christmas, promoting a list show voted for by MPs? No. Me, neither. I’d be off with Tiggy, Mimzin and the other PR girls, drinking cosmopolitans at that super new bar that’s just opened near Victoria.
So it snuck out last night with the stealth of Jack Bauer, a knife clenched between his teeth, throwing a terrorist’s body overboard to cover his tracks. Hosted by two Thunderbirds puppets with uncanny resemblances to Michael Howard and Charles Kennedy, the show listed, surprisingly enough, the 30 political comedies that MPs felt were both the closest to real life and the funniest. Ranging from the election night sketch in Monty Python’s Flying Circus to Yes, Minister and The Thick of It, the shows got hyped by various sitting MPs, journalists and broadcasters, strung out on speed and intravenous drug-using Dutch prostitutes.
See? That’s what happens when you watch shows about politicians. They rub off on you and you start lying every five seconds.
David Ten-inch?
Doctor Who
Film
US TV
We’re now up to part three of I, Davros, a potted biography of the inventor of the Daleks and the universe’s least politically correct villain. Cos, you know, those disableds are all evil cos they’re not like everyone else, you know, and they wish they were.
Not at all offensive, no.
Anyway, we’ve already had his slightly twisted childhood in Innocence, his slightly more rational 20s in Purity, and now, in Corruption, we’re up to his halcyon days, running the elite Kaled scientific corps.
Power’s going to his head though.
We’re now up to part three of I, Davros, a potted biography of the inventor of the Daleks and the universe’s least politically correct villain. Cos, you know, those disableds are all evil cos they’re not like everyone else, you know, and they wish they were.
Not at all offensive, no.
Anyway, we’ve already had his slightly twisted childhood in Innocence, his slightly more rational 20s in Purity, and now, in Corruption, we’re up to his halcyon days, running the elite Kaled scientific corps.
Power’s going to his head though.
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