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In episode 5 of season 2, Adam and Jo talk to comedian Janey Godley, about satire, swearing, and elitism. Janey hit the headlines in 2016 when she held a sign stating that “Trump is a C*nt” during Donald Trump’s visit to the Turnberry Golf Resort, but she’s also been a successful stand-up comedian for over 20 years, as well as a regular on Have I Got News for You and Radio 4’s Just A Minute and the maker of comedy voice-over clips which she posts on Twitter. So – can anyone do satire? Well, one of the three of us in this episode definitely can: the other two try their best.
In this episode, Adam and Jo talk about:
Accent and everyday speech
Agism
Ashley Storrie
Armando Iannucci
Auto-filling ‘Satire Is’
BBC
Being working class
Blocking
Boris Johnson
Brexit
Bridget Christie
Cambridge Footlights
Charlie Brooker
Chris Morris
Class
C*nts
Dallas and Dynasty
David Mitchell
Decolonizing the curriculum
DM Reporter
Donald Trump
“Don’t Make Me Take You To Carlisle”
Eighteenth-Century Things
Elitism
Fairfax House
Football fans
Glasgow
Hamish Matthieson
Herald Scottish Comedy Awards
Have I Got News For You
Ian Hislop
Illiterate poets
James Montgomery
John Cleese
John Kay
Joseph Gale
Joseph Mather
Journalists
Just A Minute
Lol
“Marmite Politics”
Memes
Men
Monty Python
Nicola Sturgeon
Nicholas Parsons
“Oxbridge” White Blokes
Peter Cook
Poetry Please
Political Correctness and Diversity
Political engagement and Politicizing People
Private Eye
Punching up
Radical newspapers of the 1790s
Roger McGough
Robert Webb
“Roundlegs”
Scottishness
Scottish Labour
Seditious Things
Sexism
Shane Allen
Sheffield
SNP
Socialism
Spitting Image
Stephen Fry
Stewart Lee
Swearing
Terry Gilliam
The Satire Unit
“The Statesman’s Soliloquy”
Theresa May
Trolls
Valentine’s Day
Viz
Voices
Voice-overs
William Shakespeare
Wendy McGlashan
York Research Unit for the Study of Satire