Justin, you're well out of order. He could never do a good Monkhouse impression.

>Justin, you're well out of order. He could never do a good Monkhouse impression.

Point taken, Jon: the memory can play tricks sometimes - but at least he wasn't trying to be "clever" and obscure. All that changed in about 1988, when he started to think that somehow he was a hell of a lot more significant than most comedy on TV. I remember reading some piece he wrote for a paper round about that time, when he pompously bemoaned the lack of decent satire on television, and started to yearn for the days of TW3 (much of which was actually dull and smug, rather like...you've guessed it). I suppose my original point (which I've strayed from, admittedly!) was that at least at the beginning, he appeared to accept he was just a common or garden impressionist, if not in the same league as Yarwood, but about the same level as Eddie Large or Paul Squire. I got a bit carried away, though. Sorry, Jon.

I ended watching this, because I saw the opening cedits and I thought it might be a zany, wacky political documentary with Andrew Rawnsley in it. Realising my mistake, I switched to the HIGNFY repeat. This featured a moment where it was revealed that Peter Kilfoyle MP (one of the guests) used to be in a band that played at The Cavern in 1960, called 'The Hungry Is'. "What a crap name!" said A.Deayton, to Kilfoyle's face.
Satire, eh? They need 3 writers to do that show...

Not only more hard-hitting than 'Blair Did It All Go Wrong' but also, sometimes, much funnier was the programme which preceded it, Nik Cohen's "Tony's New Boy Network", a startling documentary on how almost every ministerial position of any note is filled by a close personal friend of Tony, rather than anyone elected or accountable. Interspersing all this were clips from his rousing "forces of Conservatism" speech where Uncle Tony lambasted "the old elites, the old-boy networks" and promised a new era where there would be no more unaccountability. Satire is redundant when politicians lie this blatantly - discuss.

In comparison, Bremner's effort looked dead in the water. Cohen's programme should be compulsory viewing in all schools as part of a Politics Is Dead course. It almost made me glad that the Cenotaph was defaced - it served as a reminder that Blair and his family friends have done more to disgrace and desecrate the memories of those poor bastards who died for true democracy than a few cans of spray paint ever could.

And now - back to the comedy.

"What a crap name!" said A.Deayton, to Kilfoyle's face.
>Satire, eh? They need 3 writers to do that show...

Wow. That's almost as funny as Deaytons hilarious internet lambasting advertisement. He's just sooooo on the button it's astonishing.

>"What a crap name!" said A.Deayton, to Kilfoyle's face.
>>Satire, eh? They need 3 writers to do that show...
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Another self-satisfied show that ran out of steam years ago - Tony Blairs must be breathing a sigh of relief if that's what topical comedy amounts to. Jon was right - the Nick Cohen documentary rocked.

Not that Nick Cohen is biased or anything?