Revolting

Heydon Prowse: 2017 will totally Trump 2016

Heydon Prowse, one half of the political pranksters behind sketch shows Revolting and The Revolution Will Be Televised, takes a satirical poke at 2017.

Heydon Prowse and Jolyon Rubinstein of The Revolution Will Be Televised return with another satirical sketch show. Brexiteers, hippies, CEOs, Corbynites, Blairites and millennials are all trolled on the street by characters such as rightwing journalist Dale Mailey and Ukip campaigner Denis Pound, who finds some deeply disturbing ideas for policy from folk on the streets of Loughton in Essex. There's a Day Today vibe, but with a fraction of the laughs.

Preview: Revolting

The stars of hidden-camera satire The Revolution Will Be Televised return with a new series, but featuring many of the same characters and ideas.

This new series, from the creators of The Revolution Will Be Televised, offers a satirical look at the sad state of modern Britain. Jolyon Rubinstein and Heydon Prowse go out into the towns, trains and festivals of Britain to find people to mock. This is fine when the targets are corporations but the opening sketch, where one of them poses as a Ukip politician on the hunt for new policy ideas from the general public, seems rather sneering. He questions people on the streets of Loughton in Essex and subtly mocks their anti-immigrant views, agreeing that clearing out immigrants means that decent British folk can finally be "free to work in construction sites, clean toilets and work in Pret A Manger." Didn't Brexit happen because media and elitist types were scorning the views of people like this? Then they gatecrash a left-wing festival to mock the "dreadlocked quinoa-touchers" who're trying to radicalise the public with stalls selling sandalwood oil.

Choose some bigger targets, lads.

TV preview: Revolting, BBC2

This is worth watching just to see Rubinstein's Tory MP James Twottington-Burbage almost getting thumped by a disgruntled Londoner.

Revolting preview

YouTube has created a battalion of DIY pranksters - usually more irritating than amusing -and hidden camera stunts remain a rather too frequent go-to format for broadcasters. So it is something of a challenge to stand out against such saturation.

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