…at 7p.m. I’ll be joining Cultureshock’s presenter Fionn Davenport and some other guests to discuss Political Satire. Whilst satire goes back centuries and was present in essays, cartoons, theatre and even poetry, today we seem to mainly associate it with television and web related content.
I’ve been watching a lot of it in the last few months but my addiction goes back to Spitting Image and Not the Nine O’Clock News.
Over the years I caught up on older stuff including TW3 and Halls Pictorial Weekly. Like many in the nation I was glued listening to Scrap Saturday at 10.30 on a Saturday Morning which was never ever matched by anything else in Ireland. Unfortunately I can’t find any of it on Youtube! I was fortunate not to find any clips of RTE’s poor attempts in Bull Island or State of the Nation.
Halls Pictorial Weekly
Spitting Image
Some of the best stuff the US campagin has been from Saturday Night Live – ok has been from Tina Fey!
We’ve had lots more from groups like Public Service Administration.
You can call in or text the show with your best bits and comments on your thoughts on satire in Ireland and elsewhere. I’ll be remembering Political Thicko and a few other web based Irish Satirists and wondering where the rest of ye are!!
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In the week where ‘satire’ over-stepped the boundary in the UK, it will be very interesting. Enjoy, enjoy!!
I would suggest RTE has been a been cowed about doing satire. If I recall, Hall’s Pictorial Weekly was trod upon once the Soldiers of Density got into power in 1977. They didn’t mind the critique of Richie Ruin while they were in opposition (ironic that they’ve ruined the economy twice since!)
Sounds like a great show. I still remember things like Scrap Saturday, various inpersonators on the Late Late and Nighthawks and so on right the way through to Langerland in its own way and of course SNL. An important part of it for me is it humanises the whole political process and hopefully teaches some politicians not to take themselves quite so seriously. Good luck tonight!
Don’t forget The Daily Show, which is starting to get quite a following in Ireland (among the politically interested at least) now that it’s on TV in prime time (More 4).
How could I forget the Daily Show for this blog post when I was waxing lyrical about it to the researcher earlier in the week – brain fog! Oops!