This old Mitchell and Webb sketch is so topical it hurts
It sometimes seems that satirists aren’t just parodying the current situation, but predicting what’s to come.
We try not to think about how many episodes of The Thick of It have seemed like prophecy over the last couple of years – and as for the pig episode of Black Mirror, the less said the better.
Most of this old Mitchell and Webb sketch could be a news broadcast – and we’re crossing our fingers it’s only most.
“I’m not going to do it.”
“Why not?”
“Because it’s offensive and evil.”
“I don’t see the objection, the computer’s not going to be offended.”
“Just run it through. The computer will say ‘No, it wouldn’t help to kill all the poor, and I’ll stop going on about it.”
A TikToker named @kal_el_of_krypton0 spotted how well the clip matched the UK’s current situation and shared it with a new audience on the platform, picking up hundreds of comments like these.
As Rishi Sunak might say –
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