EP.1 - What even is satire?

Adam and Jo start at the very beginning with the biggest question of all: what even is satire? What did it used to be in the olden days and what is it now, in the age of Twitter, Trump and Brexit?  In this episode Adam and Jo talk about: Alexander Pope Ali G Armando Iannucci A Modest Proposal  Brass Eye Brexit Brexit 50p Chris Morris David Schneider  Definitions of satire The Death of Stalin Donald Trump The Dunciad Fake News and spin Festival of Brexit George III doing a poo in a field John Dryden Jonathan Pie Jonathan Swift Ian Hislop ‘I Object’ Exhibition at the British Museum Lee Mack Michael McIntyre Penguins in the White House Piers Morgan  Political correctness (mad?) Sacha Baron Cohen’s Who is America? Scriblerius Club South Park Stewart Lee Theresa May Twitter  Next Week: Satire and Celebrity Jo and Adam are joined by Gráinne O’Hare (Newcastle University) and Katie Snow (University of Exeter) to talk about the relationship between satire and celebrity and consider the position of the woman as satirist and the subject of satire. Visit Jo and Adam's website for even more satire!