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Description: Long-running satirical magazine. Punch, the magazine of humour and satire, ran from 1841 until its closure in 2002.

Newest Review: ... royal and judicial fabric of Britain is not warranted and will win him few friends. Punch sadly is now a dire magazine with ... more

... only 40 pages for £1.50. It is true there few advertisements but given the apparently poor circulation this is to be expected. There are no columnists in the magazine worth reading. Mary Kenny is a dire old reactionary who wrote in the issue I read a diatribe which included how she would not raise her arm to raise a taxi in case someone attacks her with a needle to give her AIDS. Unbelievable! Michael Cole who was Al Fayed's press secretary at Harrods also has an article published about celebrities in adverts bu...more

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Punch (614 words)
by - written on 15/06/08 (20 readings)
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As you sat in any dentists waiting room about any time from 10 to thirty years ago one of the few pleasures about waiting would have been that there would be an old copy of Punch on the table. In it there was some really funny articles from top comic writers like Alan Coren with cartoons from some of the best exponents of the art like Bill Tidy. Nowadays my local dentist has the de rigeur fish tank and copies of OK and Hello to while away the minutes of anticipation. Having recently got a copy of Punch I am not sorry the dentist no longer has it available. As you may be aware Punch magazine was rescued by Mohammed Al Fayed at a time when it looked like Punch ... Read the complete review

Buy private Eye instead! (289 words)
by - written on 13/07/02 (Somewhat useful, 41 readings)
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When I was doing A-Level history we often used the political cartoons of Punch magazine as a reference point for public opinion in any given historical period - but today it represents the views not of the Great British public but of a single businessman of dubious morals - namely Mohammed Al-Fayed. As a humourous or satirical publiction it is virtually worthless, it hard to even raise a wry smile at anything in it. In direct contrast to Private Eye the cartoons lack insight or humour and it cannot even rely on 'in-jokes' in the way Private Eye can since it now has such a low circulation. The problem is that whereas it was once in the hands of ... Read the complete review