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A little political humor to brighten your day. It's almost the weekend hang in there.
erronis
(15,257 posts)And it is funded by the taxpayers (BBC).
Poor USofA has flittings with humor (Comedy Central, SNL, Rachel), but they are usually commercially funded, and eventually roped into the sticky web of big money. Unless you count the republican circus.
Can anyone recommend a other-side-of-the-pond internet-available program that takes good look at our (US) efforts at free-and-fair electioneering?
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)Most of it is miles more intelligent and/or funny than anything the US has to offer. (Before anyone says so, yes, yes, I know there are exceptions.)
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)It was a Reagan/Thatcher Era show that depicted the vast and powerful bureaucracy of waste, fraud and abuse that only existed in the minds of Conservatives.
Fortinbras Armstrong
(4,473 posts)Here is another bit, with Sir Humphrey telling the Prime Minister about a problem in one of his answers in Question Time in the House of Commons
iandhr
(6,852 posts)Sir Humphrey shows Bernard that by asking leading questions in polling you can get different answers to the same question. In this case would they support reinstating national service.
Fortinbras Armstrong
(4,473 posts)As an example of how polls are manipulated.
Here is another clip, which is hilarious -- and still true -- about British newspapers.
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)I also recommend "The Thick of It" which started in 2005 and is kind of a cross between "Yes Minister" and "The Office", created by the same guy who created "Veep". Also on Hulu.
Dorn
(523 posts)While Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister (not quite as good as YM) are hilarious they show a number of deeper truths about politics.