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Feb 19, 2024 · Spitting Image, first broadcast in February 1984, is famed as an iconoclastic satire of 1980s political and popular culture. Its grotesque puppet caricatures became so well known that they...
- Hannah Andrews
Oct 3, 2020 · Politicos have long clamoured for the return of Spitting Image, which established itself as a permanent fixture of Sunday night television between 1984 and 1996. Becoming a cultural institution, the show even spent three weeks at number one with the “Chicken Song”.
Given the volume of satirical outlets, this chapter focuses upon ethos, pathos and logos and their relationship with three examples of British polit-ical comedy. These are The Thick of It, Private Eye and Spitting Image.
- Andrew Scott Crines
- 2014
The exact double of (another person or thing); the term is recorded from the early 20th century, and is an alteration of spitten image, which itself is an alteration of split and image.In Britain in the 1980s and 1990s, Spitting Image was the title of a satirical television programme, featuring puppets of British politicians and the British ...
Oct 7, 2020 · This weekend saw the much-anticipated return of Spitting Image, 24 years after it came off air. Launched in 1984, the original series saw grotesque and savagely irreverent puppets, representing political and cultural figures of the day, lampooned in a fast-moving sketch-show format.
Spitting Image is a British satirical television puppet show, created by Peter Fluck, Roger Law and Martin Lambie-Nairn. First broadcast in 1984, the series was produced by 'Spitting Image Productions' for Central Independent Television over 18 series which aired on the ITV network.
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The origin of 'spitting image' is uncertain, though it most likely evolved from 'spit,' meaning 'perfect likeness,' possibly due to the idea of a child resembling their parent so closely they were 'spit out' of their mouth.
