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Related: About this forumLast Century this was comedy... this century it is a video documentary...
In 1996 this was genius comedy - mocking the far right loons on the back benches! Today these comedy characters are literally running the county.
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Last Century this was comedy... this century it is a video documentary... (Original Post)
Soph0571
Aug 2019
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handmade34
(22,757 posts)1. satire is dead...
True Blue American
(17,988 posts)2. No,it is alive and well
Personafied in Trump!
harumph
(1,915 posts)3. History repeats itself - first as tragedy then as farce.
Myrddin
(327 posts)4. To be honest Soph
I think John Bird's character comes across as almost 'reasonable' when compared to the likes of Johnson, Rees-Mogg, Cash, the whole of the bloody ERG etc.
As you observed, now, the same 'swivel-eyed loons' are the government!
The UK is well and truly f*cked!