Spitting Image
- TV sketch show
- BritBox / ITV1
- 1984 - 2021
- 161 episodes (22 series)
Groundbreaking, long-running and hugely popular satirical sketch show with a cast of grotesque latex puppets. Stars Chris Emmett, Jon Glover, Phil Cool, Jan Ravens, Chris Barrie and more.
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Spitting Image review
Lampooning characters who are already patently ludicrous proves mighty hard.
Anita Singh, The Telegraph, 3rd October 2020Spitting Image review
The difference between Spitting Image now and Spitting Image then is that the former is fatally constipated by being politically correct and the latter didn't give a glorious damn.
Jan Moir, Daily Mail, 3rd October 2020Spitting Image review
If you thought that President Trump and Boris Johnson were already such crafty caricatures of themselves that satire against them was futile, the new Spitting Image makes you think again.
Dominic Maxwell, The Times, 3rd October 2020Roger Law on bringing Spitting Image to BritBox
"What's going on, it's just terrifying when you stop to think about it," says Roger Law, one half of the original creative pair that made Spitting Image the benchmark for wrecking-ball satire in the 1980s and 90s. "I suppose that's the reason I wanted to go back to it. The time is definitely right."
Benji Wilson, Radio Times, 3rd October 2020Review: Spitting Image, Britbox
The return of Spitting Image is an interesting one. Much has been made of how the divided society we live in now is similar to the one in the 1980s when this first aired. But even if that is the same, and I'm not sure it is, comedy has changed. Well, at least the delivery of comedy has changed.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 3rd October 2020Matt Forde: the voice of Boris Johnson and Donald Trump
The British satirical TV puppet show Spitting Image is returning this week - on streaming service BritBox. Comedian Matt Forde is the voice of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and US President Donald Trump's puppets. He told BBC World News America that the show is "just as outrageous, grotesque and ludicrous" as it was in the 1980s.
BBC, 2nd October 2020Can Spitting Image still pack a punch?
The show returns to a culture where the boundaries between comedy and politics have blurred.
Henry Mance, The Financial Times, 2nd October 2020It might be a mistake to revive Spitting Image
Will the overblown grotesquery of the satire's latex puppets be deemed acceptable by viewers more attuned to sensitivities?
Gerard Gilbert, i Newspaper, 2nd October 2020Margaret Thatcher's cabinet made Spitting Image
Margaret Thatcher's cabinet made Spitting Image watchable - Boris Johnson's nobodies might kill it. Is there anything funny about Matt Hancock, Oliver Dowden, and Suella Braverman? The makers of the new Spitting Image are about to find out
Michael Hogan, The Telegraph, 2nd October 2020Al Murray: Spitting Image is just what we need
Spitting Image returns to TV tomorrow night - and Al Murray reckons it's just what we need in an age of everyone "wanting to be upset".
Andy Halls, The Sun, 2nd October 2020