Spitting Image would have gone down in history better if it had covered the Blair period just as scathingly.
True it had lost its funniness and the crew were falling apart but the lampooning during one government only makes one wonder about Enfield, Hislop et al. Blair could have been done magnificently over the war and as for Brown’s Bottom …
My favourite was Norman:
When comedians avoid one side of a question, seems to me that their legitimacy diminishes somewhat.
Spitting Image – written by (amongst others) John O’Farrell – currently Labour party candidate for the Eastleigh byelection.
Started well but soon most of us realized it was just more propaganda masquerading as satire.