Unlike Alan Partridge, Adam and Jo got a second season, and they use this first episode to talk to the anonymous author on long-running parody Twitter account DM Reporter about how he got started, what it is like trolling the Daily Mail for almost a decade, why he can’t stop and whether or not it is satire just to say crazy things that people people have up-voted.
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In this episode Adam and Jo talk about:
- Alan Partridge
- Andrew Doyle
- Boris Johnson
- Brexit
- Carrier bags
- The Daily Mail
- Deliveroo
- Emma Thompson
- Extinction Rebellion
- Fox News
- George Orwell
- Guido Fawkes
- Have I Got News For You
- James Bond
- John O’Farrell, Things Can Only Get Worse?
- Jonathan Swift
- Krishnan Guru-Murthy
- Liz Jones
- Mail on Sunday
- Meghan, Duchess of Sussex
- Nazism
- Paul Dacre
- Piers Morgan
- Robert Webb
- Ron Perlman
- Sadiq Khan
- Spitting Image
- Titania McGrath
- Weekending
- York Research Unit for the Study of Satire
Next time
Join us again on the 14 November when we’ll be joined by journalist and satirist Andrew Doyle, co-creator of Jonathan Pie and the alleged progenitor of Woke author Titania McGrath.