‘It is the job of a satirist OK to make people in power uncomfortable, really uncomfortable, to the point where they go, This has to be stopped.’ ibid. Tony Hendra, Lampoon editor
Disco Beavers from Outer Space. ibid.
‘Doug was very distraught and upset that Caddyshack wasn’t as big as Animal House.’ ibid.
Doug Kenney, one of the founders of National Lampoon died in a hiking accident on the island of Kauai on August 29 1980. ibid.
War on Terror is another radical British board game … This then is where Games Britannia has ended up: where it belongs, in a world of cheeky, slightly tasteless, nothing taken too seriously, satire. Benjamin Woolley, Games Britannia II: Monopolies & Mergers, BBC 2009
Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms. Aldous Huxley
Satire is angry and optimistic. It believes that the evil it attacks can be abolished. W H Auden
I don’t want to go out with anyone who’s wearing stale pants. In the Loop 2009 starring Peter Capaldi & Tom Hollander & Gina McKee & James Gandolfini & Chris Addison & Anna CHlumsky & Paul Higgins & Mimi Kennedy & Alex Macqueen & Olivia Poulet & David Rasche et al, director Armando Iannucci
We request the presence of both carbonated and non-carbonated water. ibid. US delegate
The voices in his head are now singing barbershop together. ibid. woman
I’m standing my ground on the verge. ibid. minister
They’re talking about invasion reasonably seriously. ibid. Miller from the Pentagon
We are going to stay here and you are going to practise saying nothing. ibid. Tucker to minister