Look who's back: Spitting Image returns for our chaotic times
theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/sep/28/spit...
theguardian.comPosted Sep 27, 2019, 11:37 PM UTC
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theguardian.comThat Zuckerberg puppet! Can't wait for this.
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It looks more human than the real thing!
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To be fair, that's a low bar. I've seen more lifelike paintings.
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Does anyone know of any just cause why these two should not be married...
Yes..the groom is some sort of haunted Ebay Doll.
Priest: no, thats just the way Mr Zuckerberg normally looks.
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More likeable too.
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Too late isn't it
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The world has gone beyond parody
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Not really. This is only the beginning of the shit-show that is the UK.
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They'll need to spray paint their old John Major puppet blue this time!
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I wouldn't mind if they stuck a superman cape on his back after the supreme court ruling.
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Nice peas.
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*sprouts
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The caption for one image says "Vladimir Putin's puppet" but it isn't a picture of Trump
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I loved spitting image the first time around. I was young but remember how influential it really was. Unfortunately if the article is correct I think they are going to miss one of the more important parts of the original show.....picking on the 'smaller' people. If they just go for the big fish like trump, Putin etc and ignore everything else they'll be doing themselves a disservice.
Spitting image was topical, quick witted and very sharp. A weekly trump bashing show won't stick around for long. Granted, he is totally ripe for the treatment he'll get.
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Reece-Mogg was just made for spitting image, it would be comedy gold.
Gold I tell you.
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And Mohammed Bone Saw sawing...
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...MBS doing adverts for B&Q (or its US equivalent Home Despot)... its got everything a modern despot needs...saws, acid, plastic sheeting.
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Oh god, that would be glorious.
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Oh god, just imagine the Gove puppet.
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The Gove puppet would just look like a real human being.
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Yep made in the UK but written in the US, whilst this will work well fro American sketches even if its written by a Brit commenting from afar is never the same as being in the country.
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It'll have no bite to it. Plenty of jokes about Trump having little hands, orange skin and funny hair I expect. But nothing that actually pushes the envelope with genuine satire.
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Yeah, tv series and satirical news are so unpopular these days.
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I gave up on satirical news when the "normal" news started being funnier.
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Will they dare do Xi Jinping?
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Why wouldn't they when they've already made the puppet
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If you replace his shirt with a generic red one, maybe just use the Chinese flag, would Disney object?
How close to the likeness of Pooh Bear can you get? If we are just portraying Xi as a yellow bear in a red top does that work?
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Well the Megan & Harry ones are fucking terrifying.
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The old Queen Mother one was magnificent, not too barbed and funny as hell! I do hope they tear a hole in the young royals collective self entitled arse though.
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Is it going to return to British TV? The article doesnt say.
I would like to think that there is a TV executive out there who has the presence of mind to commission it for a UK TV channel.
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It is but it's being written in the US, so whilst there are puppets it will interesting to see if the humour is the same
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" and a puppet of Donald Trump whose tweets are composed by his anus."
This seems far too accurate to be satire.
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Looking forward to Puppet Farage in his natty Hugo Boss suit and swastika armband.
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DT has too much fine hair and isn't orange enough
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How long do you think this would last? Main picture is of Trump. The most thin skinned person on the planet and I can guarantee the white house would be threatening to remove it. Look at the news the other day with the BBC reporter who got in trouble for just agreeing Trump saying go back to your own country was racist. I'm not saying the white house or the US complained, but it's hard to see British complaining since he's hated he by even the right, though when I read the story they didn't say who did, maybe more information has come.
Still, although he'd have no fucking right to, I can see the BBC bending the knee crying "we're sorry!" (Wait, it was on the BBC right?)
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Spitting Image was on ITV.
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It’s returning as a yank show.
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Half the puppets in the article look more human than the subjects.
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That's amazing lol. Hopefully on Netflix
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I want nothing to do with tnis ever since the child slavery victim said that Prince Andrew fondled her with a puppet that looked like him at one of Epstein's parties.
Just ewwwwwwwwwwwwwww.
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Hey man, not all puppets man, not all puppets.
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Except Elmo. He's a proper wrong'un. There's a reason why the freezer in his basement has a padlock on it.
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Finally some good fucking news
Are you saying the last three years was the trailer? Thank god! I thought... nevermind what I thought... you wouldn't believe what I thought just happened!
If you read the article it actually looks like they're focusing on US politics.