Bremner Bird and Fortune's Exit Poll
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- Опубліковано 16 жов 2024
- Rory Bremner, John Bird and John Fortune give their satirical take on the 2001 election. Transmitted on the Sunday after polling day but incorporating some skits recorded during the election.
With the help of Frances Barber, Andrew Dunn, Pauline McLynn, Jan Ravens and Enn Reitel, and with Jon Snow from Channel 4 News playing himself.
Transmitted 10 June 2001. Did Channel 4 remember mention that Big Brother was on?
Bremner, Bird and Fortune were one the best shows on Channel 4. I miss them.
Along with Brasseye of course
Thanks for posting this it's one of the best ever episodes of Bremner.
9:30
Jon Snow: Is national insurance going up?
Tony Blair: I'm not writing a budget here.
Jon Snow: I'm not asking you to write a budget.
Tony Blair: Well if you don't want to know what's in it I'm not going to tell you.
I always loved that exchange from when I watched this back in 2001.
the bird and fortune sketches with the wives are just so lovely
I went off political satire in this period as it began to seem like they were trying too hard. In 2001, the fact is that most people were broadly satisfied with the government and they were not seen as dictatorial, chaotic or incompetent - the usual requirements for political satire. Blair's New Labour were also famously straight laced and sober in manner, so very few eccentrics. As such, it was hard to find anything to laugh at in them. Even "the Prescott punch" was generally applauded by the public who saw it as a justified reflex action to an unprovoked assault. The opening segment of this with the newsreel images make the programme makers look out of touch.
Rory used to slip in the line "what I say unto you" in his Blair impression from around 1999 onward. As Blair started to enter his messiah phase.
I've never understood the depiction of Alastair Campbell. The actor playing him looked facially more like Tony McNulty, and his chubby physique was nothing like Campbell's, who was a fitness fanatic and quite muscular and even on the slim side. He ran the London Marathon shortly after this. Campbell is the son of a veterinary surgeon and came from a very well to do background - it was lazy to portray him as an "Ee-ba-gum" cliche just because he was Northern. He wasn't even one of those nauseating types who pretend to be more working class than they are. His image was totally "North London" and he was the epitome of the "laptop generation" of cappuccino drinking Guardianistas. The first time I saw the BB&F portrayal of him I honestly thought it was meant to be John Prescott.
😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣 miss these days
Satire at it's finest
At 10:18 how very real this line is now as of May 2022 about the future ownership of Channel 4 under this current rat bag of a conservative government. Labour may have considered this, but knew they could never get it passed.