"If Time is a Drug, then Big Ben is a Huge Needle Injecting it into the Sky"

As I mentioned in my previous (and first) blog, i'm following the theme of Brass Eye for my

second blog.

I never watched this series first time round (as I was only 6 when it was first broadcast, although I guess I could have made an appearance in their Special 2001 show) but I have watched intently over the last few weeks at this intriguing look at satirical comedy.

It's a very likeable cast for myself. I loved the I.T Crowd and things like Spaced, Green Wing and Friday Night Dinner.

Set the Scene: So you've got two great masters of British Comedy, Chris Morris and Mark Heap. The latter of these genius' literally left me in stitches in Green Wing. In the last episode of Friday Night Dinner "So much blood" almost had me crying with laughter but Chris Morris was little known to me, apart from the I.T Crowd in which he was about as funny as dead baby jokes. Pretty funny then.

Chris Morris makes a laughing stock of not only the whole journalist media frenzy that exists nowadays in the U.K but the celebrities and everything they try to endorse just to make their name as household as Dyson. Unfortunately for them, they make their name as being like Crocs- laughable and embarrassing. As for the media imitation, they really do overreact to all sorts of articles, something that constantly irritates my partner and I on a regular basis. Frequently we're met with BBC news articles stating the "ANTIBIOTICS ARE BECOMING LESS EFFECTIVE THAN EVER BEFORE" as if it's new news. Snore Zzz....

Arguably my favourite episode was the first one. Animals. In this episode, a graph is displayed that makes as much sense as a chain of foxes head on sticks. The problem, of course, is that when you do this, the word cruel starts flashing. This kind of comedy amuses me. It makes no sense, like the news reports that normally write about this kind of thing. It reminded me of the brilliant Look Around You written by Peter Serafenowitz. 

I won't bore with every joke that is found in the series because the less known, the more surprised and offended you'll be.

What this program does is make you question. It makes you wonder why you're laughing at this kind of humour. Articles about something which normally people would discuss in such serious chatterings about a horrific news story. It pushes the boundaries and changes the rules. Instead of the constant "family" comedy we have oh so much of nowadays this is strictly for adults. Like Family Guy it ridicules the people that are too easily idolised and I have every faith that if this was shown on Channel 4 in the present day it wouldn't be as complained about as was first broadcast- something which very much irritates me.

If you've never watched this series, and you're over 18, give it a watch PLEASE. Unless of course you're easily offended in which case stick to something like My Family, Miranda  or the Simpsons- all of which I love.