Because fact into doubt won’t go My Mother was a huge influence on me and my TV habits and tastes. She would let me stay up and watch things that she thought I might like or buy videos unprom…

The Day Today – The satire of news which will continue to be relevant for as long as news programmes think they’re more important than God.

I wrote this as part of the start of a project I’m writing about stuff that has had a massive influence on me - Chris Morris programmes definitely have. For a programme that is that is roughly 30 years old this hasn’t dated very much to my mind… whether that’s a worrying thing or not is moot but it’s still extremely funny!

  • HeartyBeast@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Very nice write up. I still have fond memories of Chris Morris performing Nirvana’s advert for sanitary products.

    One thing worth saying is that The Day Today borrowed very heavily from ‘On The Hour’ - a BBC Radio 4 series where the characters - Alan Partridge, Peter O’Hanraohanrahann etc originated as a satire of radio news.

    Worth a listen.

    It’s the thin end of a very complex wedge.

    • HipPriest@kbin.socialOP
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, I love On The Hour as well. I don’t think it’s dated quite as well (there’s definitely bits where you have to be able to remember what pre-Matthew Bannister Radio 1 was like to get the joke) but it’s still definitely got its moments. I can’t remember the context but Steve Coogan as a minister from the 1950s shouting “Three big arses on a bench!” makes me laugh a lot…

      I didn’t realise for years that the original official release had Stewart Lee and Richard Herring’s contributions taken out and it wasn’t the full thing just a compilation - the originals are all out in nice unedited packages now!