Spitting Image & The Reason For Return

Spitting Image was an iconic 1980s television comedy sketch show. It satirized well known celebrities, politicians and other figures in the media. Its main target for satire were people such as Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, Ayatollah Khomeini and Colonel Ghaddfi. The show also parodied film awards, elections and other television spectacles. The show itself also made its own music videos such as We Are Scared Of Bob, The Chicken Song & I've Never Met A Nice South African, all of which became stand alone singles. The show also collaborated with progressive rock band Genesis for the song Land Of Confusion which became a landmark music video in the era of MTV.

The reason why this show should make a return is because this world has become a land of confusion. Terrorism is rife at home and abroad, the President Of The United States is a lunatic on Twitter and Kim Jong Un is a trigger happy nuclear war man child. There is also the #MeToo Movement which has created confusion on the way a man should approach a woman without fear of harassment and there is the SJWs which seem to protest against anything and anyone without doing any form of research which could have been relevant to their 'cause', the most well known video on Youtube is of Canadian Professor Jordan Peterson being confronted by SJWs over the whole trans debate of nouns or pronouns to call a person. Then there is the narcissists, the ones that have their faces splashed on the Daily Mail, The Sun & News Of The World, and others which have appeared on television shows such as The Only Way Is Essex, Geordie/Jersey Shore, Love Island and Ex On The Beach. But the most narcissistic of them all is the Kardashians and Kanye West. They have incensed and enraged the public with their delusions of grandeur and its getting to the point of near human meltdown. People who selfie themselves on Instagram, Facebook and other social media sites are also targets of satire & parody.

These targets would be a dream come true for the creators of Spitting Image because they could turn it around and shove it back to the people they are satirizing. The person that was most target for parody on Spitting Image was Mary Whitehouse who is the ultimate figure for the SJWs. She was offended by everything. The return of Spitting Image would also see the return of well educated and clever humour because the creators and actors would have spent their days at university. Today's humour is OK but it has become distorted and the jokes do not really have a punchline. If people want to be humourous in day to day life, in order to be comedic, one needs to research early pioneers such as The Marx Brothers, Laurel & Hardy, and trailblazers such as The Two Ronnies, Monty Python, That Was The Week That Was, and alternative comedians in Not The Nine O'Clock News, Bremner, Bird & Fortune & The Young Ones. The big book of comedy one should read is The Really Wicked Joke Book, and also books from Horrible Histories