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In their very first Christmas episode, Jo and Adam take a break from asking whether satire is dead, and imagine what it might have been like if it had never been born at all. No expense has been spared on members of the cast, as they take a rollercoaster ride through a very partial history of satire. They then discuss the satirical possibilities of Christmas itself, and are joined by Dr Matt Colbeck of the virtuoso Math Rock band, Creepjoint to ponder this. During their conversation and It’s A Satirical Life, they at least mention in passing the following things and people:
A Bit of Fry and Laurie
A Christmas Carol
Alexander Pope
Anthony Burgess
Andrew Doyle
BBC Radio 4
Black Mirror
Blue Ticks
Brass Eye
Brexit
Cabbage
Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
Charlotte Brontë
Chris Morris
Christmas
Cliff Richards
Coca-Cola
Creepjoint
- Generation of the Dark Heart
- ‘Let’s All Go To F*cking Hanley’
- ‘Merry Christmas Ya Filthy Animal’
- ‘SSRI’
Crowd-sourcing
Daniel Defoe
Dead Kennedys
Deliveroo
Dear Joan and Jericha
Eastenders
Emily Brontë
Fry and Laurie
Gavin and Stacey
George Bailey
George Orwell
George & Weedon Grossmith, The Diary of a Nobody
Gooducken
Have I Got News For You
Horace
Hyperreality
Idles
It’s A Wonderful Life (dir. Frank Capra, 1946)
It’s A Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie (Kirk Thatcher, 2003)
Jane Austen
Janey Godley
Jason Williamson
Jeremy Corbyn
Jo Brand
John Lennon, ‘So This Is Christmas’
Jonathan Swift
Juvenal
Lady Mary Montague
Mark Twain and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Math Rock
Meat Raffle
Micheal Buble
Mock the Week
Not Going Out
Peep Show
Punch
Queen’s Speech
Satire
Samuel Johnson
Sex Pistols
Shropshire Farm Foods
Simulacra
Sleaford Mods
Stoke-on-Trent
South Park
Stewart Lee
Steve Hollyman
The Killers
The Simpsons
The Thick of It
Titania McGrath
Tom Robinson (of BBC Radio 6)
Trains, Planes and Automobiles (dir. John Hughes, 1987)
Twitter (Blue Ticks)
Uber Eats