Private Eye Documentary 1/5 Peter Cook, Richard Ingrams, Ian Hislop
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- čas přidán 12. 09. 2024
- 1991 documentary about the satirical magazine Private Eye. Sorry, the picture quality is pretty poor throughout.
With comments from former and current Eye personnel including Richard Ingrams, Ian Hislop, Peter Cook, Paul Foot, Barry Humphries, Willie Rushton and Christopher Booker.
an excellent source for my essay,thank you very much!
I have been a reader of Private Eye since 2009 and I enjoy it. The humour is gloriously sharp, and I also like its quirky appearance.
Private Eye was the only Mag that had the guts to make fun of the over-emoting by the British Public over Diana's death and the Media frenzy that fed on it.
Getting paid to turn up and invent jokes with Peter Cook, that what a call a good job.
Apart from a few missteps inc. the MMR coverage, they have their eyes in the right place.
I like Private Eye but does working for them mean you have to be a middle-upper class twat? seems so.....
An absolute gem.
That's not quite true. Viz also famously parodied the hysteria and media frenzy surrounding Diana's death. Perhaps best of all with their article about Micky Dolenz, titled "We're Bananas about you, Micky", calling Micky "the man they called the people's Monkee", and referring to throngs of people lining up outside a TV studio to add to a carpet of bananas. Readers were urged to sign the "Mickydolences book" housed at the studio where he produced "Metal Mickey".
Just add something on Richard Ingrams - look up the RAINS list, and his connection with that.
@rjr1967 No, it's Pamella Bordes.
I still buy the Eye but more from habit than anything else. The cartoons are still good. It lost a lot when Hislop took over, some say appointing him was Cooke's idea of a joke, he did love to upset apple carts, and making Hislop editor cost the Eye the services of Auberon Waugh, quite possibly the most brilliant and funny writer they had. A real satirist, not a sarcasm seller.
Yes, Mr Hislop made the early mistake of acquiring an Oxford degree in earnest. Bron Waugh was "rusticated" from his PPE course, and liable to the fate of those sent down like his father who were only suitable for employment as either "a school master or a spy".
That can't be Nigella Lawson sipping tea at the beginning can it? No, it can't. (Can it?)
From her meecrowavé
@jamesb1815 think they did one recently for the 50th year anniversary, you made this comment two years ago better late than never eh?
"The whole of my working life has been spent laughing at the Tories." Ian Hislop.
The whole of my working life I've spent working. Either I am or he is a scrawny, over-indulged, underwhelming, unfunny, overrated, parasitical, annoyingly smug media wanker.
You choose.
Hope you are retired and getting a good rest nowadays? Who knows, maybe you are relaxed enough to have developed a sense of humour too.