I do a spoof in-prison Saddam Hussein custard endorsement and within days the Guardian is reporting that Saddam’s tailor can’t keep up with the demand for his courtroom “look”. I write a fake Guardian article complaining about better educated students graduating to vote Tory and the same newspaper follows it up by reporting on hardening attitudes towards welfare amongst graduates.
The BBC Radio 4 Midnight News has just led with the revelation that Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy has been drinking too much, fairly closely followed by the appearance of George Galloway on Celebrity Big Brother.
I don’t know if there’s anywhere left for me to go with this satire thing. The world has gone DVD crazy and my Website is a Betamax cassette factory. It could finally be time for me to buy a television set and retire from ‘Blogging.
Nah. I’m relying on the blogs, because even with the RHMFBGAB there, I still can’t be arsed to watch Big Brother. Get to it! :-p
Satire’s going down the tubes! I shouldn’t worry. We want alternative, innit?
No no – please don’t retire from blogging. Your country needs you!
I recall Michael Flanders (yes I’m very old) saying that satire’s purpose is to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cosy half truth (he also said that his and Donald Swann’s job was to put it back again but I’ll ignore that). Please keep picking away at that veneer……..
A bright future lies ahead then!
Tom Lehrer retired from satire when Nixon was elected. What was the point, he asked?
Went on to write songs for Sesame Street.
See, a bright future indeed!
…satire is alive and well and living in Rothergavenny!!!
Get your noddles ’round THIS Cheslea scum:
http://rswipe.blogspot.com/2006/01/abramovich-plans-audacious-sooty-and.html
And who knows – maybe we’ll get rid of Blair too!!
Happy New Year!!!
xxx
Roberta
…oh and re: retiring Poots – FOR CHRISSAKES DON’T DO IT!!!
(..well, if you do decide you have to, at least leave a link to The Show will ya?)
xxx
Roberta
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I think your sense of humour is great. If you ever get bored blogging, you should try adding satirical entries on the Uncyclopedia’s wiki
http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/
You’d be way funnier than the majority of the writers on there 🙂
Sorry to be pedantic, but it’s what I do best: Lehrer claimed there was no point in doing satire after Kissinger got the Nobel Peace prize – not specifically to do with Nixon at all.
And he wrote songs for “The Electric Company” – sort of a big brother to Sesame Street.
But Damien – just because the world is insane and your wacky ideas turn out to be real news stories doesn’t bring down the value of your column – it instantly leverages your appeal – turning you from satirist to pundit.