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Anyone else find the Dead Ringers Brexit Bulldog sketch far funnier than it really should be?
Brexit Bulldog - OUT
It’s funny cos it’s true...
Rachel
Dead ringers is as ever dead on the money at the moment.
Yep - plunging into the seventh circle of hell..........
Brexit Bulldog is the best, just too effective a negotiator to be on the real UK team.
Dead Ringers went downhill for a while, imho, but this series is excellent...I loved the the Paloma Faith sketch, and John MacDonald is brilliant
McDonnell was brilliant.
Toblerone in Vegas...
Is this TV or Radio 4 or something else?
Gove-y is excellent too.
It's on Radio 4, Fridays 6.30pm and repeated on Saturday lunchtimes.
A real return to form.
Perhaps one of the few plus points of 2017, our politicians are so bad that they make for great satirical inspiration. A true vintage year.
Love it - always listen before sleep.
Gove-y is worthy of a series all of his own.
With the one exception of Brexit Bulldog I think it's bloody awful. Proper monday night R4 IMO, I have no idea how it gets on a primetime slot.
Brexit Bulldog is good because its a good impression. Some of the impressions are shite.
It is superb.
'Hilary Mantel' had me choking on my tea yesterday!
ctk - MemberBrexit Bulldog is good because its a good impression. Some of the impressions are shite.
Golden rule of impressions isn't it- if they say the name of the person they're doing the impression of in the first line, they don't have much faith in it.
Brexit Bulldog is good because its a good impression. Some of the impressions are shite.
It's absolutely not a good impression of David Davis. It's a caricature, like Alf Garnett (of whom the David Davis impression often reminds me because of his bombastic xenophobia and racism), which is blackly funny because the ridiculous deluded self-confidence of the caricature seems to be uncomfortably close to the truth when considering what David Davis has said about the strength of Britain's negotiating position, and the reality that is increasingly becoming apparent.
Many of the Dead Ringers impressions are not that great, as demonstrated by the need for the character to tell the listeners who they are at the beginning of some sketches. What makes it great is having good material that shows up the cant, deceit and hypocrisy of the current crop of deeply flawed politicians and the mess that they have created.
I think the sketches with Theresa May and Arlene Foster have been even better than the Brexit Bulldog ones, like their press conference where they agreed that they could not understand how they had not yet made a deal, since they had so much in common - "we're both cold and judgemental".