Day Today, The

They call him a media terrorist, but he’s not going to comment, Chris Morris is a legend. The Day Today is probably the best remembered project that Morris has leant his skills and talent to. Basically, it’s the news. Yes for thirty beautiful minutes you are gonna be facted. This is an excellent pastiche of the world of news, superb characterisations, quality production and obscure stories. All the details have been carefully crafted for your satirical pleasure, this really feels like the news, sincere presenters with proper news names, the graphics, the music. Right from the word go the erratic graphics begin to get carried away as the shows globe ...  Read the complete review

I am a huge fan of the man behind this great satirical show. Chris Morris is a true genius when it comes to taking the royal Mickey out af any genre of TV or Radio. His great radio show "Blue Jam", followed by the TV version "Jam" were simply surreal with bits of normalcy thrown in as a counterpoint, and his spoof documrntary series "Brass Eye" was incredible to say the least (you'll probably remember Channel 4 having to issue an apology for the "Paedogeddon" episode). He is of the mind that nothing is sacred and puts this accross in this shows. That's not to say tat he works alone on this show. Armando Ianucci was ...  Read the complete review

If all 'The Day Today' was ever responsible for was the propulsion of Chris Morris, Steve Coogan's Alan Partridge and the team who would later produce 'Friday/Saturday Night Armistice' from radio to the nation's screen then it's place in the history of British Comedy would be safely assured. But 'The Day Today' was so much more in it's own right. Half a viscious and bizarre satire and half a spoof of news programmes, TDT provided a sort of parallel universe to our own. Everything was familiar- war, politics, sport, travel- but skewed through the comic equvalent of a Hall of Mirrors into a collection of outlandishly ...  Read the complete review

This was a truly inspired and amazing piece of Television that was unbelievably believable! It was a parody of television news that was so close to the truth that many thought it was real - a kind of War of the Worlds effect! Its beauty lay in its accuracy - everything from the overblown graphics to the pointless 'live' inserts and self-important attitude of the reporters. The fact that it was entertaining further added to the point that journos so often think they're there to entertain and there cheap cheesy gags do nothing except make them look like the fools they are. Nothing will ever come close. ...  Read the complete review

Chris Morris' series that aired years ago now is wothout a doubt (in my little mind anyway) the funniest show to have been screened on uk tv. The first time I saw it I remember thinking it was for real, 6 oclock on BBC2, and couldnt beleive my eyes. Only Jam, another Morris creation, has come close to the same 'smack in the face tv' effect. A spoof current affairs programme, the quality of the writing is so good it makes the 11o clock show look amateurish, and Trigger Happy tv and da Ali G show look like the cheap gag shows that they are (even though I love them both) Alan Partridge started life here on the sports desk, but it was Morris himself as ...  Read the complete review