wheels on fire rolling done the road
By jb78000
@jb78000 (15139)
October 16, 2009 3:23pm CST
for people across the puddle who don't know this is the song from an excellent satiral show called absolutely fabulous. so what high quality satire have you recently encountered? personally i have been listening to several radio programs on bbciplayer - some of which are fabulous and very dry.
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@grandpa_lash (5225)
• Australia
17 Oct 09
I tend to find TV and radio comedy, even satire, fairly ho hum, with rare exceptions, none of which occur to me at the moment. I prefer to get my satire through reading. Once upon a time I would have said Douglas Adams was the modern master, but then I discovered Terry Pratchett, sort of a DA without his world-weary cynicism, and I am among Pratchett's biggest fans. But the true satirical geniuses were all back in the early twentieth and before, and it almost seems a lost art. Or maybe it's just that I have not yet encountered the modern school of satire.
Lash
@grandpa_lash (5225)
• Australia
18 Oct 09
Huxley and Orwell come to mind immediately, Johnathon Swift long before them, and an Australian author of the 1960s, Russel Braddon. There are probably dozens more, but I haven't read any of that stuff for years, and my memory is even sicker than I am.
Lash
@PeacefulWmn9 (10420)
• United States
17 Oct 09
We have Saturday Night Live, and Mad Magazine on Tv. And all the nighttime comedy talk shows are full of political and other satire: Leno, Conan, Letterman, Jimmy Kimmel Live.