They also appeared in a TV episode of Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge as some womens hurdlers from the 1936 Berlin olympics (I believe). He had them recreate the race on a scale model of the track! Can't find a link on youtube, quite funny as you can imagine. I recall one of them saying some embarrasingly racist things about the Germans, to Alans horror lol
I'm sure that the last bit where she talks about being foreign secretary is real, as it is not daft like the eating bricks or electrode baby parts. I think she had a good story to tell so they kept it in for her
Thanks for this. I live in USA and had to go out and buy a Region Free DVD player and bought the Day Today,Brass Eye, DVD's. Also bought Mighty Boosh box set for $20 because box was scrated. Then discovered Charlie Brookers Weekly Wipe, the 10' clock live. Finally all things Armando Irranochi SIC. Also lost cousin on 9/11, never ever thought I would see "Four Lions" comedy. Then found out written and directed by Chris Morris. Started watching it and within 5 minutes had blown Pepsi through my nose laughing so hard. Ended up buying the DVD, I truly expected to hate that movie, ended up buying it. Cheers, UK
81Mace81 I bought Time Trumpet and the "Armando Ianucci show" on DVD. You are right you discover Time Trumpet and your mind is blown. When he looks back 30 years from now and shows how Terrorism has been beaten, making the UK a place where the emotion "terror" is outlawed. Thanks for the suggestion.
"Why use corpses? Why not normal people? Why don't you just leave things the way they are?" "Because.. normal people.. I wouldn't have my tower. I want a tower."
It's just so good! Nothing in the script is thrown away or wasted or written simply to fill in gaps. Every member of the cast pitches the tone of their character perfectly and the overall caustic bite is absolutely delicious! Love finding a new episode I hadn't seen before.
Think this is the strongest episode. The whole WAR stuff was utter genius, especially with the Yugoslav wars going on at the time it was originally broadcast
You see! People only remember the first bits. "That story we reported last week and have since found it to be untrue." It's a classic media mind trick used to push a narrative that is designed to bias the audience a chosen way! They get away with it because they then dismiss the claim in the quietest way possible, thus avoiding libel.
11:08 - The way Chris says "Monday" here is a piss take on BBC news reader Michael Buerk, who loved to emphasis different words in each news item as well as his unique delivery style on the "999" show.
Watching this today, still an excellent piece of television. I personally loved seeing Chris playing the organ glissando at the end of the intro credits.
When this came out, I harboured the hope that real-life TV news producers would hang their heads in shame and mend their ways. Little did I know that they would go on to treat The Day Today as some sort of template!
The first time I saw TDT I was on acid in a friend's house. He taped it off the TV not long after it aired. I didn't know what I was watching at first, and I was glued to the sketch where dentists where plying their trade on the street. In my intoxicated state I was fully convinced it was for real.
Amazing and terrifying how relevant this still is. Great satire is one thing we british do seem to do particularly well. If only we could also learn from it.
would never leave out Armando. genius as well. There were a few writers, Peter Baynam and Charlie brooker. was just saying Morris's performance was so Paxman it was brilliant.
Glorious satire, relentless graphics, hilarious wit. And no damned 'live studio audience' or laugh-track-for-morons nonsense. Chris makes flawless comedy.
out of the countless celebrities and politicians chris has interviewed between this and brass eye i love how paul boetang is the only one thats caught onto what was happening
Oh man, I saw this 9 or 10 years ago and all in that time I remembered The Bureau portion and thought that was a real show on the BBC that I had watched. XD
Chris Morris..The NOSTRODAMUS of Comedy. Just when you thought the News Could Never look this THIS!?! Yet here we are Wrapped up in this Global Lunacy. Bring back THE DAY TODAY!!! #chrismorris #thedaytoday #AbstractTruth #Lampoon
"Colin needs a few moments to decompose himself". Love Barbara's puns in the Chapman Baxter sketch. As I recall a couple of the other episodes had Chapman Baxter electric chair sketches: one where he is an Elvis fan getting 'all shook up', and another where he marries his 'fried-to-be'. I wonder if they originally intended to use only one but decided they were all too good?
It's crazy how relaxed everyone is compared to how strung out people look these days. World has gone nuts it's no fuzzy memory of things past. Media crazier than the day today for real right now 🤣
2:21 The pound was only vulnerable because they removed it to play with at lunchtime and forgot to put it back 😂 That is just a fantastic line, honestly that is brilliant
18:36 The absolute disgust on Chris's face about the military threat from Hawtrey, which is only made funnier when you realise he's starting the war himself.
I've watched this so many times I thought I knew it word for word but, 22 years on, I've only just registered and guffawed at the nonsense contained within Morris' earnest question to Kim Wilde: "would you call for clamps to be illegalised?" While I've always enjoyed the bizarre juxtaposition, it's only now I'm able to enjoy the fact that "illegalised" is not an actual word ;-)
+Mark Wright Ha ha, snap, just re-watched it for the first time in many years and that was what I noticed too! To be fair there's a pretty obvious reason why the (male) viewer might be distracted from the nuances of Morris's verbiage during that scene.
Funny you say that. Portillo DID confess to homosexual acts at university. I wonder if the Sun or Mirror had this info and he went public to take the wind out of the story? Still, gay or straight, a politician should of course be judged on their words and deeds. Not who they happen to be attracted to.
The editing on this is series is phenomenal. Everything is perfect. I love it 🤣🤣 I used to watch it in 1994 when I was 13 and I understood every joke then.
I have a child about his age myself. When I phoned him 10 minutes ago, I told him to move out of the house to make room for his new brother. That fucking killed me. Absolutely amazing
*aggresively grabs old women while her child sits there in disbelief at the situation unfolding* "through the univeral language of mutual need, i knew she was saying; come! Put your equipment up in our refuge, the world must see this mess." 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Having witnessed the reporting of the Labour leadership contest on the BBC and mainstream media over the past year, I have turned to and wholly trust the coverage offered by "The Day Today".
@@thenoltzone498Corbyn was smeared by the papers, skewered for things such as opposing the current virus toon in Israel and being supposedly anti-Semitic.
BBC Website today mentioned "...The cauldron of tensions could boil over" in a headline. The real world today is a satirical take on the satire of the 1990's, IMO.
