The Day Today
- TV sketch show
- BBC Two
- 1994
- 7 episodes (1 series)
Following on from Radio 4's On The Hour, The Day Today is a biting satirical swipe at television news in the early 1990s. Stars Chris Morris, Steve Coogan, Doon Mackichan, Rebecca Front, Patrick Marber and David Schneider
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Forgotten Comedies: The Day Today
The Day Today was satire at its finest. You'd think that twenty-five years later this TV show, satirising events of the mid-nineties for just one series, wouldn't have much to offer to a modern audience. But thanks to great writing, it still feels fresh and modern and its style is still being emulated!
Rhianna Evans, Super Ink, 31st January 2019The Day Today is still predicting the future of TV news
"It's a programme designed to knock current affairs broadcasting off its axis," the Radio Times wrote in 1994, "then blow a hole in its spluttering head". It did nothing of the sort.
Jude Rogers, The New Statesman, 22nd January 2019How The Day Today changed satire forever
25 years ago, Chris Morris and Armando Iannucci's uproarious news spoof unleashed Fake News on the world (not to mention Alan Partridge).
Phil Harrison, The Guardian, 17th January 2019How The Day Today could have been made for 2019
When The Day Today was first broadcast on 19 January 1994, its rambunctious, attention-demanding presentation and news items on 'bomb dogs' the theft of the pound and wild horses running amok on the London Underground was obvious satire. But revisiting Chris Morris' sharp-as-a-tack spoof today, the lines somehow blur.
Alex Nelson, i Newspaper, 17th January 2019Definitive guide to British comedy since Fawlty Towers
The British are coming, and they want to invade your television. With ... laughter.
Devon Ivie, Vulture, 21st November 201839 of the best quotes from The Day Today & Brass Eye
The Day Today and Brass Eye were both amazingly subversive satires, upending the news and current affairs of the day in gloriously silly - and sometimes controversial - style.
i Newspaper, 28th March 201810 reasons why Alan Partridge is the perfect life-coach
Hard as it is to believe, it was 25 years ago that Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge first aired on Radio 4.
Mark Monahan, The Telegraph, 28th November 2017Gallery: 20 politically incorrect 'modern' comedies
Here are 20 recent comedies that wouldn't have been green-lit today.
Ed Power, The Telegraph, 17th October 20177 TV shows that started out on radio
Radio has always been the perfect testing ground for some of the biggest names in comedy today.
Clarisse Loughrey, The Independent, 27th September 2017The Day Today: stand out moments
Arguably the high watermark of spoof/satire television in the UK, The Day Today is unquestionably an important slice of British comedy history.
Cult Box, 13th July 2017