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Maybe I don't know the difference between satire and gentle mockery. Swift's 'modest proposal' is to me satire. As is Ingrams' and Wells' 'Dear Bill' and 'Mrs Wilson's diary'. The adventures of Bart and his relationionship with Homer seemed more like gentle mockery to me. But what do I know? I...

So the satire failed. I am inclined to agree. You may say that. Some of your list may have occasionally stooped to satire and brushed up against irony, but it wasn't the main* schtick. But what about the American viewers? I love satire and irony but its main imperative, it has often seemed to...

And Jewish. My exasperation with the thread may seem unfair but it just seems a bit weird to create a new thread on something like this. I would feel weird if I started a thread on, for example, the social impact of the music of "Crass", or (heaven forefend) the possible virtues of Arthur...

It's the fightback from Right Thinking Man, in the face of the defenestration of Johnson (he and his chums will be thrown through another window today - ho ho ho) and the general collapse of the cult of greed and incompetence that has run riot over the last 13 years. So far, going really well...

Unwatchable now. The Garnett character seems through modern eyes to be on the autism spectrum. He reminds me far too much of my (cockney) dad on one of his extended rants about the modern world in the late 60s and 70s. And the rest of the cast mocked him just as, sadly we mocked the old man.