wow. yeah. pretty big grab bag of wtf, there.

you need to know that Chris Morris, the guy that made it, is a fucking genius.

Also in this clip is an early Alan Partridge, the Steve Coogan character that got his own series.

And you also need to know that this show was made in 1994, it's way ahead of its time, predicting very accurately the farce that television news has become.

Check out Brass Eye and Blue Jam also.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Morris_%28satirist%29

of course, the fact that this clip only has 3 upvotes is yet another sign that the queue is fucked. This is a classic show, a landmark in British broadcasting history, the best satire ever in the universe, the sound and picture quality are ok, and there's no fucking lolcats. If this isn't Sift material then I really don't know what the fuck i am doing here.

Please permanently requeue.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'surreal, parody, news, awesome, while, baked, apparently' to 'surreal, parody, news, satire, awesome, chris morris, steve coogan' - edited by MINK

Oh flip, queue is only 2 days now.

*requeue because I'll probably forget.

Re-queueing this video for one more try; last queued Friday, January 25th, 2008 8:50pm PST - requeue requested by submitter JohnnyMackers.

*requeue

Re-queueing this video for one more try; last queued Sunday, January 27th, 2008 10:00am PST - requeue requested by submitter JohnnyMackers.

I'm a big fan of Chris Morris, thanks very much for posting.

edit: Loved the financial news and the alternative medicine bits at 20:00.

Discarding this video. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

*promote

Promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Monday, January 28th, 2008 7:57pm PST - promote requested by fissionchips.

Didn't even see this in the queue. The high water mark of British TV. Pure fucking genius.

If you have never heard Blue Jam, download some mp3s, get them on your ipod, wait til dark, and you'll be in for a real treat.

http://chris-morris-blue-jam-series-1-episode-1-mp3-download.kohit.net/_/408684

Awesome. Morris and Coogan are geniuses.