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I am so happy to see Charlie show up on this blog. Roger Ebert and Charlie Brooker are the two people who shaped my intellectual personality the most during adolescence, which is quite, quite terrifying.
Cool, funny and close to the point.
But interesting thing is that this format remains unchanged for so many years already.
After all, Monty Python were mocking the very same thing several decades ago:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFiN7Zsz2zM
here is an IRATE COMMENT made without any sense of comprehension of the topic at hand!!! or editing for speling or grammar mistakes!!
Hilariously dead-on!
Brilliant. I didn't know you were aware of the genius that is Charlie Brooker, Jim. Are you aware of the British satirists Armando Iannucci and Chris Morris? They did a show called The Day Today back in 1994. It is the most accurate and hilarious satire of the incredible pomposity and self-importance of the news today. And still remains as relevant as ever.
I'm not aware of their TV work, but I know Iannucci directed the splendid "In the Loop" and Chris Morris (also the name of a great LA music critic I know) directed "Four Lions," a "jihadist comedy" that was just shown at Sundance.
I've found full episodes of The Day Today on Google Video. Morris's subsequent public interest satire Brass Eye is less overtly silly than The Day Today (and The Day Today's radio predecessor On the Hour), but brilliantly surrealist, and even more subversive. I think some episodes of that are on Google Video, too.
It's very very much worth seeking out.
That's just liberal humor again. We see through your obvious bias as you try to make our country a haven for fascists, islamists and commies, you elitist latte-drinking phony film critic who earns his living snobbing every movie real people like!
Now that's a typical blog answer in any blog involving politics, taste or whatever else related to life or vegetables.
The one thing he didn't mention is: interviewees suddenly muted in mid-sentence before cutting back to the reported.
I have to admit though, this clip probably wouldn't still be remembered if Linnman wasn't so hilariously deadpan as he tries to keep a straight face through the smell: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3712178515303087869#
No offense Jim, but that link at the bottom outlines something eerily similar to some of your posts (with little differences like you don't link to blogs you seek to curry favour with, because you really don't need to).
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