You would think that it would be obvious to people that an article or a page is satire and not actually true, but as we’ve seen over the years, people are easily fooled on the Internet. Facebook has been a hotbed of users sharing satire posts like they’re the real deal and so now they … Read more
The Mash Report, the BBC show which was accused of left-wing bias, will not return for another series. The broadcaster said it is ‘very proud’ of the programme but will be axing it ‘in order to make room for new comedy shows’. The show, a satirical take on the week’s news which featured Nish Kumar … Read more
Spitting Image: U.S. Election Special Rating: American Nightmare: Trump’s Breadline Kids Rating: The adverts used to supply the wittiest, most entertaining moments of an evening’s viewing. Leonard Rossiter spilled Cinzano down Joan Collins’s dress, a man with a comb-over found happiness in a cigar . . . it was telly stardust. But the advert that … Read more
Spitting Image: U.S. Election Special Rating: American Nightmare: Trump’s Breadline Kids Rating: The adverts used to supply the wittiest, most entertaining moments of an evening’s viewing. Leonard Rossiter spilled Cinzano down Joan Collins’s dress, a man with a comb-over found happiness in a cigar . . . it was telly stardust. But the advert that … Read more
Exciting Times Rating: Naoise Dolan W&N £14.99 Very few authors are able to write snappy one-liners, which have to be as compact and forceful as poetry, but here’s a young novelist who’s a virtuoso. Her narrator, Ava, is particularly acerbic when talking about an entitled young woman called Victoria. With Exciting Times, her first novel, … Read more