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Brass Eye is a UK television series of satirical spoof documentaries which aired on Channel 4 in 1997 and was re-run in 2001. Image File history File links The logo for British television satirical comedy Brass Eye. ... The word comedy has a classical meaning (comical theatre) and a popular one (the use of humor with an intent to provoke laughter in general). ... Chris Morris (born September 5, 1965 in Bristol, England) is an English satirical comedian, writer, producer, director, actor and radio DJ. Morris began his career in radio before later moving into television. ... Chris Morris (born September 5, 1965 in Bristol, England) is an English satirical comedian, writer, producer, director, actor and radio DJ. Morris began his career in radio before later moving into television. ... This article is about the British television station. ... is the 29th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... This is a list of television-related events in 1997. ... is the 207th day of the year (208th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... This is a list of television-related events in 2001. ... 1867 edition of the satirical magazine Punch, a British satirical magazine, ground-breaking on popular literature satire. ... This article or section cites very few or no references or sources. ... This article is about the British television station. ...

The series was created by Chris Morris, and written by, amongst others, Morris, David Quantick, Peter Baynham, Arthur Mathews and Graham Linehan. It was conceived as a sequel to Morris's earlier spoof news programmes On The Hour and The Day Today, and satirised the media's portrayal of various social ills. Chris Morris (born September 5, 1965 in Bristol, England) is an English satirical comedian, writer, producer, director, actor and radio DJ. Morris began his career in radio before later moving into television. ... David Quantick (born 1961, Wortley, South Yorkshire) is a freelance journalist, writer and critic who specialises in music and comedy. ... Peter Baynham is a British comedy writer and perfomer born in Cardiff, Wales. ... Arthur Mathews (born 1959 in County Meath, Ireland) is a comedy writer who, often with writing partner Graham Linehan, has either written - or contributed to - a number of popular television comedies. ... Graham Linehan (born 1968) is an Irish television writer and director who, often in partnership with Arthur Mathews, has written or co-written a number of popular television comedies. ... On The Hour double cassette cover featuring Chris Morris, 1992. ... The Day Today is a surreal British parody of television current affairs news programmes. ...

Original 1997 series

Brass Eye aroused considerable controversy when it was first broadcast, primarily because prominent public figures were fooled into pledging onscreen support for fictional, and often plainly absurd, charities and causes.

The second episode was called "Drugs", and is considered by many to be the most successful of the series. In the opening scene, a voiceover tells viewers that there are so many drugs on the streets of Britain, that "not even the dealers know them all". An undercover reporter (Morris) asks a purportedly real-life drug dealer in London for various fictional drugs, including "Triple-sod", "Yellow Bentines" and "Clarky Cat", leaving the dealer puzzled and increasingly irritated until he tells the reporter to leave. He also asks the dealer if he is the "Boz-Boz", and claims that he doesn't want his arm to feel "like a couple of fortnights in a bad balloon". Later on in the episode, in the same area, Morris dresses as a baby with a nappy on, and a red balloon like hat on his head, and again asks for "Triple-sod", and then says "last time I came here a friend of mine just got triple-jacked over a steeplehammer and jessop jessop jessop jessop". This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ...

David Amess MP, the Conservative Member of Parliament for Basildon, was fooled into filming an elaborate video warning against the dangers of a fictional Eastern European drug called Cake, and went as far as to ask a question about it in Parliament ^[1]. The drug purportedly affected an area of the brain called "Shatner's Bassoon" and was frequently referred to as "a made-up drug" (a drug, they were told, not made from plants but made up from chemicals). Other celebrities such as Sir Bernard Ingham, Noel Edmonds and Rolf Harris were shown holding the bright-yellow cake-sized pill as they talked, with Bernard Manning telling viewers that "One kiddy on Cake, cried all the water out of his body. Just imagine how his mother felt. It's a fucking disgrace" and that "... you can puke yourself to death on this stuff - one girl threw up her own pelvis-bone... What a fucking disgrace". Manning, along with other participants, told the public that Cake was known on the street as loonytoad quack, Joss Ackland's spunky backpack, ponce on the heath, rustledust or Hattie Jacques pretentious cheese wog, and then informed anyone offered it to "chuck it back in their face and tell them to fuck off". David Anthony Andrew Amess (born March 26, 1952) is a British Member of Parliament for Southend West. ... The Conservative Party (officially the Conservative and Unionist Party) is the second largest political party in the United Kingdom in terms of sitting Members of Parliament (MPs), the largest in terms of public membership, and the oldest political party in the United Kingdom. ... A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters to a parliament. ... Basildon is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... Type Bicameral Houses House of Commons House of Lords Speaker of the House of Commons The Right Honourable Michael Martin MP Lord Speaker HÃ©lÃ¨ne Hayman, Baroness Hayman, PC Members 1377 (646 Commons, 731 Peers) Political groups (as of May 5, 2005 elections) Labour Party Conservative Party Liberal Democrats... William Alan Shatner (born on March 22, 1931) is a Canadian actor who gained fame for playing James Tiberius Kirk of the USS Enterprise in the television show Star Trek from 1966 to 1969 and in seven of the subsequent movies. ... Sir Bernard Ingham (born June 21, 1932) is a journalist best known as Margaret Thatchers former press secretary. ... Noel Ernest Edmonds (born 22 December 1948 in Ilford, Essex) is a British television presenter, DJ, executive who made his name on BBC Radio 1 in the UK. He is more recently known as the presenter of the television gameshow Deal or No Deal. ... Rolf Harris, CBE, AM (born 30 March 1930) is an Australian musician, composer, painter, and television host. ... Bernard John Manning (13 August 1930 â€“ 18 June 2007) was an English stand-up comedian. ... Joss Ackland CBE (born Sidney Edmond Jocelyn Ackland on February 29, 1928 in North Kensington, London) is an English actor who has appeared in more than 130 films in his career. ... Josephine Edwina Jacques (7 February 1922 â€“ 6 October 1980), better known by the stage name Hattie Jacques, (pronounced Jakes) was a British comedy actress born in Sandgate, Kent. ...

Other episodes dealt with the topics of science, animals, and infamously, sex - "We love the Nuge". In one scene of the "Sex" episode, Morris posed as a talk-show host who took a starkly discriminatory attitude in favour of those with "Good AIDS" (e.g. from a contaminated blood transfusion) over those with "Bad AIDS" (caught through sexual activity or drug abuse), satirising stereotypical right-wing attitudes to people with AIDS. For other uses, see AIDS (disambiguation). ... Blood transfusion is the process of transferring blood or blood-based products from one person into the circulatory system of another. ...

The screening of the 1997 series was postponed for nearly six months as it made comic reference to murderer Myra Hindley, who was back in the news at the time after her portrait was vandalised in the Royal Academy exhibition Sensation. In a particularly infamous portrayal, Hindley was the topic of a farcical song by a fictitious indie band called "Blouse" (whose appearance and style closely resembled that of Pulp). The lyrics to part of the song read: "Every time I see your picture, Myra/I have to phone my latest girlfriend up and fire her/And find a prostitute who looks like you and hire her/Oh, me oh Myra." The "leader singer" of Blouse, Purves Grundy (who resembles Jarvis Cocker), is then shown commenting on the song; "Myra is a very complex woman, you know, and this song is about her hair. I don't think there's a single reference in the song to her brain, which I think maybe, had a slight problem. I do think [if] someone's gone and bought this record just because of the fuss that's been made about it, I think they should throw it away. And then they should go and buy another copy, because they liked the song". Image File history File links Grade. ... Image File history File links Grade. ... Mug shots of Myra Hindley (left) and her partner Ian Brady at the time of their arrest in October 1965. ... The Royal Academy of Arts is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly, London, England. ... Sensation was a notorious exhibition of Young British Artists which took place in 1997 (18 September-28 December) at the Royal Academy of Art in London and later toured to Berlin and New York. ... Definition A farce is a comedy written for the stage, or a film, which aims to entertain the audience by means of unlikely and extravagant yet often possible situations, disguise and mistaken identity, verbal humour of varying degrees of sophistication, which may include puns and sexual innuendo, and a fast... Pulp are a rock band, formed in Sheffield, England in 1978, by then 15-year-old school-boy Jarvis Cocker (vocals, guitar). ... Jarvis Branson Cocker (born 19 September 1963, in Sheffield, England) is an English musician, best known for fronting the band Pulp. ...

Michael Grade, then chief executive of Channel 4, repeatedly intervened to demand edits to episodes of Brass Eye, and rescheduled some shows for sensitivity. This interference outraged Morris, who responded by inserting into the final episode (which had been most tampered with) the single-frame subliminal message "Grade is a cunt". This was removed for the 2001 broadcast and subsequent DVD release, which also reinstated all of the extant material. Michael Ian Grade CBE (born March 8, 1943) is a British businessman and a distinguished figure in the field of broadcasting. ... This article is about the British television station. ... A subliminal message is a signal or message embedded in another object, designed to pass below the normal limits of perception. ...

In an attempt to get celebrities to support the airing of the show, and as another insult to Grade, Morris allegedly wrote to Nelson Mandela telling him that Grade campaigned for him to be kept in prison^[2], and protested upon his release. He also wrote to musician Paul Simon, claiming that Grade always considered Art Garfunkel the more talented of the duo.^[3] Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (IPA: ) (born 18 July 1918) is the former President of South Africa, and the first to be elected in fully representative democratic elections. ... Paul Frederic Simon (born October 13, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist, half of the folk-singing duo Simon and Garfunkel who continues a successful solo career. ... Art Garfunkel in Bad Timing (1980) Arthur Ira Garfunkel (born November 5, 1941) is an American white gollywog and actor, best known as half of the folk duo Simon and Garfunkel. ...

2001 paedophilia special

In 2001, the series was repeated, along with a new show, which tackled the tricky subject of paedophilia and the associated moral panic prevalent in parts of the British media at the time following the death of Sarah Payne focused on the controversial 'name and shame' campaign of the News of the World. This included an incident in 2000, in which a paediatrician in Newport had the word 'PAEDO' daubed in yellow paint on her home. ^[4] Pedophilia or pÃ¦dophilia (see spelling differences) is a mental state in which an adult has a preferential sexual attraction to prepubescent and in some definitions, preadolescent children. ... A moral panic is a reaction by a group of people based on the false or exaggerated perception that some cultural behavior or group, frequently a minority group or a subculture, is dangerously deviant and poses a menace to society. ... Sarah Payne (13 October 1991 - 1 July 2000), was the victim of a notable murder in England. ... The News of the World is a British tabloid newspaper published every Sunday. ... Pediatrics (also spelled paediatrics or pædiatrics) is the branch of medicine that deals with the medical care of infants and children. ... For other uses, see Newport (disambiguation). ...

Celebrities including Gary Lineker and Phil Collins appeared in videotaped interviews, in which they endorsed a spoof charity "Nonce Sense" ("nonce" is a common British slang term for a sex offender), the latter going so far as to announce, "I'm talking Nonce Sense!" Tomorrow's World presenter Philippa Forrester and ITN reporter Nicholas Owen amongst others were tricked into explaining the details of "HOECS" (pronounced "hoax") computer games, which online paedophiles were supposed to be using to abuse children via the Internet. These fairly simple plays on words were opaque enough that none of the guest celebrities understood that they were being lampooned until the show was aired, in spite of what often seems to the viewer like plainly absurd subject matter. The Capital Radio DJ "Doctor" Neil Fox, for example, informed viewers that "paedophiles have more genes in common with crabs than they do with you and me", before qualifying his remarks with "Now that is scientific fact - there's no real evidence for it - but it is scientific fact". Viewers were also told by the then Labour MP Syd Rapson that paedophiles were using "an area of Internet the size of Ireland", and by Richard Blackwood that internet paedophiles can make computer keyboards emit noxious fumes in order to subdue children (Blackwood even sniffed a keyboard and claimed to be able to smell the fumes, which he said made him feel "suggestible"); Blackwood also warned watching parents that exposure to the fumes would make their children "smell like hammers". Gary Winston Lineker, OBE (born 30 November 1960 in Leicester) is a former English international football striker who scored ten goals in two World Cups for the England national team and is currently a sports broadcaster for the BBC. He is also known for appearing in adverts for the Walkers... For other uses, see Phil Collins (disambiguation). ... In the UK, the term nonce (sometimes spelled nonse) is a slang word used to refer to a sex offender and/or child sexual abuser, and thus as an insult. ... Tomorrows World was a long-running BBC television series, showcasing new (and often wacky) developments in the world of science and technology. ... Philippa Forrester (born 20 September 1968 in Winchester, Hampshire) is a British television presenter and producer as well as an author. ... ITN may refer to: Independent Television News In the news, a section on the Main Page of English Wikipedia This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. ... Nicholas David Arundel Owen (born 10 February 1947) is an English television news journalist and presenter. ... This article is about the British radio station. ... Neil Andrew Howe Fox (born 12 June 1961) is a British radio and television presenter, known for many years as Dr Fox before he became Foxy in the 2000s. ... Superfamilies Dromiacea Homolodromioidea Dromioidea Homoloidea Eubrachyura Raninoidea Cyclodorippoidea Dorippoidea Calappoidea Leucosioidea Majoidea Hymenosomatoidea Parthenopoidea Retroplumoidea Cancroidea Portunoidea Bythograeoidea Xanthoidea Bellioidea Potamoidea Pseudothelphusoidea Gecarcinucoidea Cryptochiroidea Pinnotheroidea * Ocypodoidea * Grapsoidea * An asterisk (*) marks the crabs included in the clade Thoracotremata. ... The scientific method or process is fundamental to the scientific investigation and acquisition of new knowledge based upon physical evidence. ... Sydney Norman John Rapson (born 17 April 1942) is a politician in the United Kingdom. ... Richard Blackwood (born 15 May 1972, Clapham, London, England) is a British stand-up comedian, television personality, sometime actor, MC of Jamaican origin and president of a robot factory. ... A 104-key PC US English QWERTY keyboard layout The Dvorak Simplified Keyboard layout A standard Hebrew keyboard showing both Hebrew and QWERTY. A computer keyboard is a peripheral partially modelled after the typewriter keyboard. ...

In one segment, the studio is "invaded" by members of a fictional pro-paedophile activism organisation called MILIT-PEDE and the programme appears to suffer a short technical disturbance. When the show returns, presenter Chris Morris confronts a supposed spokesman, Gerard Chote (played by Simon Pegg) who has been captured and placed in a pillory, and asks him whether he wants to have sex with Morris's six-year-old son. Hesitantly, the spokesman looks at the boy and refuses, explaining, "I don't fancy him", which then drives Morris to further indignation that his son is found unattractive. Morris later claimed that the child actor was not present during filming, and was incorporated digitally in post-production, but this scene was one of the key causes of the media backlash which followed its first broadcast. Milit-Pede sequence from Brass Eye special episode on pedophilia, fair use This work is copyrighted. ... Milit-Pede sequence from Brass Eye special episode on pedophilia, fair use This work is copyrighted. ... Pro-pedophile activism or Pro-paedophile activism (Commonwealth usage) encompasses pro-pedophile organizations and activists that argue for certain changes of criminal laws and cultural response associated with pedophiles and adult-minor sexual relations. ... Simon John Pegg (born 14 February 1970 in Gloucester) is an English comedian, writer and film and television actor. ... It has been suggested that Pranger be merged into this article or section. ... Post production is the general term for the last stage of film production in which photographed scenes (also called footage) are put together into a complete film. ...

Around 2000 complaints (and approximately 3000 calls of support) were received regarding the show, and some politicians hastily spoke out against Morris. Beverley Hughes described the show as "unspeakably sick" (while admitting that she had not seen the programme) and David Blunkett said he was "dismayed" by it. Although she did not criticise the show, Tessa Jowell was reported as asking the Independent Television Commission to revise its rules to allow such a controversial show to be prevented from broadcast ^[5] even though she hadn't watched the actual episode of the show. There was also a vociferous tabloid campaign against Morris, who refused to discuss the issue. The episode went on to win a Broadcast magazine award in 2002 and the complete series, including the 2001 special, was released as a bestselling DVD later that year. The Politics series Politics Portal This box: A politician is an individual who is a formally recognized and active member of a government, or a person who influences the way a society is governed through an understanding of political power and group dynamics. ... Rt. ... David Blunkett (born 6 June 1947) is a British Labour Party politician and has been Member of Parliament for Sheffield Brightside since 1987. ... Tessa Jowell (born September 17, 1947 in London) is a British politician who is Labour MP for Dulwich and West Norwood, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport and Minister for the Olympics, following the selection of London to host the 2012 Olympic Games. ... The ITC has been superseded as the British commercial television regulator by Ofcom (the Office of Communications). ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Broadcast magazine is the weekly newspaper for the UK TV and Radio industry External links [http://www. ... Size comparison: A 12 cm Sony DVD+RW and a 19 cm Dixon Ticonderoga pencil. ...

The show caused a furore among sections of the British tabloid press. The Daily Star printed an article decrying Morris and the show next to a piece about the then 15-year-old singer Charlotte Church's breasts under the headline "She's a big girl now" ^[6]. The Daily Mail featured pictures of Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, who were 13 and 11 at the time respectively, in their bikinis next to a headline describing Brass Eye as "Unspeakably Sick". Defenders of the show argued that the media reaction to the show reinforced its satire of the media's hysteria and hypocrisy on the subject of paedophilia. ^[7]. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Charlotte Church (born Charlotte Maria Reed on February 21, 1986) is a Welsh singer and television presenter who rose to international fame in childhood as a popular classical singer with a precociously mature dramatic operatic voice, in particular in its tonal qualities. ... The Daily Mail is a British newspaper and the oldest tabloid, first published in 1896. ... â€œPrincess Beatriceâ€ redirects here. ... Princess Eugenie of York (Eugenie Victoria Helena; born 23 March 1990) is a member of the British Royal Family and a granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth II. Princess Eugenie is sixth in the Line of succession to the British Throne and has been since her birth in 1990. ... Hysteria is a diagnostic label applied to a state of mind, one of unmanageable fear or emotional excesses. ...

References to and appearances of celebrities by episode

Animals episode

CARLA LANE. Born in Liverpool, Merseyside, England. ... Sir Peregrine Gerard Worsthorne (born December 22, 1923) is a British Conservative journalist, writer and broadcaster. ... Oliver Skeete (b. ... Jilly Cooper (born February 21, 1937), is a British author. ... Britt Ekland (born Britt-Marie Eklund on October 6, 1942) is a Swedish actress, long resident in the UK. Ekland became famous as a result of her 1964 whirlwind romance and marriage to British actor and comedian, Peter Sellers, who proposed after seeing her photograph in the paper. ... Paul Daniels (born Newton Edward Daniels, 6 April 1938) is a British magician and television performer. ... Michael Van Wijk, (born in Bombay, India, 9 August 1952) aka Wolf, was a professional sportsman, bodybuilder, actor and TV presenter in the UK. Van Wijk is most well-known for his role as Wolf on British TV endurance sports game show Gladiators, a role he held for seven years... For other uses, see Gladiator (disambiguation). ... Christopher Nicholas Parsons OBE, normally known as Nicholas Parsons (born October 10, 1923) is a British actor, radio and television presenter. ... Alexandra competing in the Bonaire EcoSwim 10K race. ... â€œDickensâ€ redirects here. ... Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (in full Francis Charles Augustus Albert Emmanuel) (26 August 1819 â€“ 14 December 1861) was the husband and consort of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. ... Michael Ray Dibdin Heseltine, Baron Heseltine, CH, PC (born 21 March 1933) is a British businessman and Conservative Party politician. ... This article is about Kenneth Clarke, the English politician. ... Anthony Tony Neil Wedgwood Benn (born 3 April 1925), formerly 2nd Viscount Stansgate, is a British socialist politician. ... Jack Ashley, Baron Ashley of Stoke, PC (born 6 December 1922), is a Labour member of the House of Lords. ... James Patrick Jimmy Page, OBE (born 9 January 1944) is an English guitarist, composer and record producer. ... Dr Desmond Morris (born 24 January 1928 in the village of Purton, UK) is most famous for his work as a zoologist and ethologist. ... Ralph Nathaniel Fiennes, (IPA: ), born 22 December 1962) is a Tony Award-winning, Academy Award-nominated and Genie Award-nominated British actor. ...

Drugs episode

Sir Bernard Ingham (born June 21, 1932) is a journalist best known as Margaret Thatchers former press secretary. ... Bruno Brookes (born Trevor Neal Brookes in Stoke-on-Trent, 25th April, 1959) is a British radio presenter who shot to fame in the 1980s. ... Rolf Harris, CBE, AM (born 30 March 1930) is an Australian musician, composer, painter, and television host. ... Bernard John Manning (13 August 1930 â€“ 18 June 2007) was an English stand-up comedian. ... Noel Ernest Edmonds (born 22 December 1948 in Ilford, Essex) is a British television presenter, DJ, executive who made his name on BBC Radio 1 in the UK. He is more recently known as the presenter of the television gameshow Deal or No Deal. ... David Anthony Andrew Amess (born March 26, 1952) is a British Member of Parliament for Southend West. ... Claire Rayner (born Claire Berenice Berk to Jewish parents in London on January 22, 1931) is a British journalist best-known for her role for many years as an agony aunt. ... James Peter Jimmy Greaves (born 20 February 1940) is an English former football player, Englands third highest goalscorer, and more recently a television pundit. ... Jas Mann (his full name being Jasbinder Mann), was born in Dudley, West Midlands, England, on April 24, 1971. ... Liam Gallagher (born William John Paul Gallagher on September 21, 1972, Burnage, Manchester, England) is an English singer and tambourine player of the band Oasis. ... Michael Denzil Xavier Portillo (born 26 May 1953) is an English journalist, broadcaster, and former Conservative party politician and Cabinet Minister. ... Dennis Lee Hopper (born May 17, 1936) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor and film-maker. ... Blue Velvet is an influential 1986 neo-noir mystery and thriller film written and directed by David Lynch. ... Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, PC, FRS (nÃ©e Roberts; born 13 October 1925) served as British Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990 and leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 until 1990, being the first and to date only woman to hold either post. ... Elizabeth I (7 September 1533 â€“ 24 March 1603 ) was Queen of England and Queen of Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death. ... Joss Ackland CBE (born Sidney Edmond Jocelyn Ackland on February 29, 1928 in North Kensington, London) is an English actor who has appeared in more than 130 films in his career. ...

Science episode

Eve Pollard is aged about 80. ... Tania Bryer is a British television personality, who worked as a weather forecaster for Sky News in the 1990s. ... Hugh Dennis (left) with Steve Punt on The Now Show. ... John McCririck (born 17 April 1940, Surbiton, Surrey is an English television horse racing pundit. ... Tamara Beckwith (b. ... Richard Briers, CBE (born on January 14, 1934) is a popular English actor whose career encompasses the theatre, television, film and radio. ... Nicholas David Arundel Owen (born 10 February 1947) is an English television news journalist and presenter. ... Steven Berkoff (born August 3, 1937) is an English actor, writer and director. ... Lynne Franks (born c. ... Jenny Powell (born 8 April 1968 in Ilford, London), is a British television presenter. ... Caesar the Geezer (real name Chris Ryder b. ... Mohamed Al-Fayed (b. ... Jas Mann (his full name being Jasbinder Mann), was born in Dudley, West Midlands, England, on April 24, 1971. ... Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958), commonly known as MJ as well as the King of Pop, is an American musician, entertainer, and pop icon whose successful career and controversial personal life have been a part of pop culture for the last three decades. ... Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (born October 26, 1947), was First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001, as the wife of President Bill Clinton. ... Donald Jay Fagen (born January 10, 1948 in Passaic, New Jersey) is an American musician and songwriter, best known as co-writer, co-founder, singer, and pianist with the jazz-rock band Steely Dan. ... Jacques Santer (born May 18, 1937) is a politician from Luxembourg. ... Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946 in Queens, New York, New York) is an American business executive, entrepreneur, television and radio personality and author. ... Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti (28 April 1937 â€“ 30 December 2006) was the fifth President of Iraq and Chairman of the Iraqi Revolutionary Command Council from 1979 until his overthrow by US forces in 2003. ... Michael Collins (born October 31, 1930) is a former American astronaut and test pilot. ... Colonel Buzz Aldrin, Sc. ... This article is about the former American astronaut. ... Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson (born 18 July 1950 ) in Shamley Green, Surrey, England), is an English entrepreneur, best known for his Virgin brand of over 360 companies. ...

Sex episode

Claire Rayner (born Claire Berenice Berk to Jewish parents in London on January 22, 1931) is a British journalist best-known for her role for many years as an agony aunt. ... Peter Stringfellow (born October 17, 1940 in South Yorkshire, UK) is a multi-millionaire businessman and minor British celebrity. ... David Sullivan is a Welsh pornography magnate and newspaper proprietor; he is owner of the Daily Sport and Sunday Sport. ... LGBT rights Around the world By country History Â· Groups Â· Activists Declaration of Montreal Same-sex relationships Marriage Â· Adoption Opposition Â· Discrimination Violence This box: Peter Gary Tatchell (born 25 January 1952) is an Australian-British human rights activist, who is best known internationally for his attempts to perform a citizens... This article is about Kenneth Clarke, the English politician. ... Robert Finlayson Cook (28 February 1946 â€“ 6 August 2005) was a politician in the British Labour Party. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Peter Sissons presenting the last BBC Nine OClock News bulletin Peter George Sissons (born 17 July 1942 in Liverpool) is a nationally known television newscaster in the United Kingdom. ... John Whitaker Straw (born August 3, 1946) is a British Labour Party politician. ... The Rt Hon. ... Joanna Lumley OBE, FRGS (born 1 May 1946) is an English actress and former model who is best known for her roles in The New Avengers, Absolutely Fabulous, Sapphire and Steel and Sensitive Skin. ... Dame Anita Lucia Roddick, DBE (23 October 1942 â€“ 10 September 2007) was the founder of The Body Shop, a British cosmetics company producing and retailing beauty products that shaped ethical consumerism. ... Helena Bonham Carter (born May 26, 1966) is an Academy Award-nominated British actress, known for her roles in the films A Room with a View, Howards End, and Fight Club. ...

Crime episode

The Right Honourable Sir Rhodes Boyson (11 May 1925- ) is an author and politician in the United Kingdom, and former Conservative Member of Parliament for Brent North. ... Mad Frankie Fraser Francis Davidson Fraser (born 13 December 1923, and better known as Mad Frankie Fraser) is a former British criminal and gang member who has spent more than half of his life in prison for numerous violent offences. ... Tommy Vance, born Richard Anthony Crispian Francis Prew Hope-Weston (July 11, 1941 â€“ March 6, 2005) was a British pop radio broadcaster, born in Eynsham, Oxfordshire. ... Geoffrey Boycott OBE (born October 21, 1940) is a former Yorkshire and England cricketer. ... Winner at a book signing for his autobiography Michael Winner (born 30 October 1935) is an English film director and producer, active in both Europe and the United States, also known as a food critic. ... Vanessa Feltz (born February 21, 1962) is an English journalist and broadcaster. ... David Sullivan is a Welsh pornography magnate and newspaper proprietor; he is owner of the Daily Sport and Sunday Sport. ... The Rt Hon. ... Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE (born 18 June 1942) is an English singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who first gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles. ... Michael Denzil Xavier Portillo (born 26 May 1953) is an English journalist, broadcaster, and former Conservative party politician and Cabinet Minister. ...

Moral Decline episode

John McCririck (born 17 April 1940, Surbiton, Surrey is an English television horse racing pundit. ... Darcus Howe (born in 1943 in Trinidad and Tobago, then a British colony), is British based a broadcaster and columnist, who lives in Brixton, South London // The son of an Anglican priest, he left Trinidad for London aged 19 to enter the Middle Temple, but swapped the law for journalism. ... John Challis (born August 16, 1942 in Bristol, England) is a British actor best known for his role as Aubrey Boycie Boyce in the long-running comedy show Only Fools and Horses, and its 2005 spin-off, The Green Green Grass. ... Mad Frankie Fraser Francis Davidson Fraser (born 13 December 1923, and better known as Mad Frankie Fraser) is a former British criminal and gang member who has spent more than half of his life in prison for numerous violent offences. ... Terry Waite at April 1993 Allentown College speech Terry Waite CBE (born May 31, 1939 in Styal, Cheshire, England) is a British humanitarian and author. ... This article includes a list of works cited or a list of external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks in-text citations. ... Mug shots of Myra Hindley (left) and her partner Ian Brady at the time of their arrest in October 1965. ... Clive Anderson (born 10 December 1952) is a former practising barrister turned successful comedy writer as well as a television and radio presenter in the United Kingdom. ... Noel Ernest Edmonds (born 22 December 1948 in Ilford, Essex) is a British television presenter, DJ, executive who made his name on BBC Radio 1 in the UK. He is more recently known as the presenter of the television gameshow Deal or No Deal. ... Thomas Hamilton Thomas Watt Hamilton (May 10, 1952 â€“ March 13, 1996) was a Scottish mass murderer, who committed the Dunblane massacre, in which he killed sixteen small children and a teacher in a primary school, and then subsequently committed suicide. ... Michael Ian Grade CBE (born March 8, 1943) is a British businessman and a distinguished figure in the field of broadcasting. ...

Brass Eye special ("Paedogeddon")

Gary Winston Lineker, OBE (born 30 November 1960 in Leicester) is a former English international football striker who scored ten goals in two World Cups for the England national team and is currently a sports broadcaster for the BBC. He is also known for appearing in adverts for the Walkers... Andy McNab DCM MM (born December 28, 1959) is a British former soldier turned novelist. ... James Gerald Douglas Howarth known as Gerald Howarth (born 12 September 1947, Hurley, Berkshire) is a British politician in the Conservative Party. ... Sebastian Newbold Coe, Baron Coe, KBE (born 29 September 1956 in Chiswick, London) is an English athlete and Conservative Party politician. ... Neil Andrew Howe Fox (born 12 June 1961) is a British radio and television presenter, known for many years as Dr Fox before he became Foxy in the 2000s. ... Sydney Norman John Rapson (born 17 April 1942) is a politician in the United Kingdom. ... For other uses, see Phil Collins (disambiguation). ... Daphne Barbara Follett (born 25 December 1942, Kingston, Jamaica as Daphne Barbara Hubbard) is a British politician - she is the Labour Member of Parliament for Stevenage, which she first won at the 1997 general election. ... Nicholas David Arundel Owen (born 10 February 1947) is an English television news journalist and presenter. ... Philippa Forrester (born 20 September 1968 in Winchester, Hampshire) is a British television presenter and producer as well as an author. ... Kate Thornton (born February 7, 1973) is an English journalist and television presenter, best known in the UK as the first presenter of The X Factor and known internationally as a presenter of the VH1 coverage of the Concert for Diana. ... Richard Blackwood (born 15 May 1972, Clapham, London, England) is a British stand-up comedian, television personality, sometime actor, MC of Jamaican origin and president of a robot factory. ...

In popular culture

Nigel Blackwell, singer, guitarist and songwriter Half Man Half Biscuit, often abbreviated to HMHB, are a UK rock band from Birkenhead, active sporadically since the mid-1980s, known for their satirical, sardonic and sometimes surreal songs. ... Achtung Bono is the tenth album released by UK rock band Half Man Half Biscuit, in 2005. ... Younger Brother are Simon Posford and Benji Vaughan, a psychedelic trance project from England. ... A Flock of Bleeps is Younger Brothers one and only album. ... The cover of the 1989 7th edition of the Guinness Book of British Hit Singles Guinness World Records - British Hit Singles & Albums is a music reference book, published in the United Kingdom, by Hit Entertainment, the company that owns such childrens entertainment brands as Bob the Builder and Thomas... // History Lightyear were a popular UK 7-piece ska-punk band. ... Voorhees were a hardcore band formed in Durham City (north-east England) during 1991 from the ashes of various other local bands (Steadfast, Know Your Enemies, False Face, The MacDonalds). ... This article is about the musical genre. ...

References

The Guardian is a British newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group. ... is the 94th day of the year (95th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see BBC (disambiguation). ... is the 242nd day of the year (243rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... The Guardian is a British newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group. ... is the 211th day of the year (212th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... is the 217th day of the year (218th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...

External links

Categories: Channel 4 comedy | Satirical television programmes | Parodies The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is an online database of information about movies, actors, television shows, production crew personnel, and video games. ... Salon. ... Chris Morris (born September 5, 1965 in Bristol, England) is an English satirical comedian, writer, producer, director, actor and radio DJ. Morris began his career in radio before later moving into television. ... Loose Ends is a British radio programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4. ... On The Hour double cassette cover featuring Chris Morris, 1992. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Chris Morris advertising Blue Jam. Blue Jam was an ambient radio comedy programme produced by Chris Morris. ... The Day Today is a surreal British parody of television current affairs news programmes. ... Jam is a British comedy television series created by Chris Morris. ... Nathan Barley is a Channel 4 sitcom written by Charlie Brooker and Chris Morris which follows the exploits of a loathsome, fictional twenty-something London media type. Described by his own creator as a meaningless strutting cadaver-in-waiting, the character originated on Charlie Brookers TVGoHome - a website parodying... For the Washington Senators pitcher nicknamed Big Train, see Walter Johnson. ... A series of 12 newspaper columns by Chris Morris (under the pseudonym Richard Geefe) that appeared in The Observer in 1999. ... The Bushwhacked MP3 files are satirical speeches created from parts of United States president George W. Bushs orations. ... My Wrongs 8245 - 8249 and 117 is the first film by Chris Morris, starring Paddy Considine as an insane man (who has decided that he no longer deserves a name) taking care of a friends Irish Wolfhound (named Rothko, voice by Chris Morris) while shes away. ... This article is about the UK TV series. ... Peter Baynham is a British comedy writer and perfomer born in Cardiff, Wales. ... Charlie (Charlton) Brooker (born 3 March 1971) is a British comedy writer, cartoonist, reviewer and television presenter. ... Armando Iannucci (born 1964, Glasgow, Scotland) is a Scottish comedian, satirist and radio producer. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

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