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Newzoids

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Newzoids (2015)
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Satirical take on current world events via modern 'Spitting Image' style 'puppets'.Satirical take on current world events via modern 'Spitting Image' style 'puppets'.Satirical take on current world events via modern 'Spitting Image' style 'puppets'.
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  • Stars
    • Jon Culshaw
    • Debra Stephenson
    • Lewis Macleod
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    Jon Culshaw
    Jon Culshaw
    • Anthony McPartlinas Anthony McPartlin…
    2 episodes2 eps • 2015–2016
    Debra Stephenson
    Debra Stephenson
    • Duchess of Cornwallas Duchess of Cornwall…
    2 episodes2 eps • 2015–2016
    Lewis Macleod
    Lewis Macleod
    • Alex Salmondas Alex Salmond…
    2 episodes2 eps • 2015–2016
    Simon Greenall
    • Eric Picklesas Eric Pickles…
    2 episodes2 eps • 2015–2016
    Jess Robinson
    Jess Robinson2 episodes2 eps • 2015–2016
    Jon Clegg1 episode1 ep • 2015
    Luke Kempner1 episode1 ep • 2016
    Harriet Carmichael1 episode1 ep • 2016
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      Featured in London et Kirschenbaum: Episode dated 27 April 2015 (2015)

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    3/10
    Nothing resembling subtlety
    This show is trying so hard... It's trying so... So hard...

    It's good that we are getting political satire back on television. And it's a shame, because the voice actors are great and the puppets work for what they need, the problem is the writing.

    This is the least subtle show I have ever seen. 90% of sketches follow this formula:

    1) Have character come on screen and call out their 1 character trait (E.G. Eric Pickles is fat, so he comes on and demands food or Lady Gaga wears silly outfits, so she's talking about where she is going to get her next silly outfit)

    2) Build up to a joke

    3) Tell joke

    4) Proceed to beat the joke to death by shoving it in the audiences face in a "DO YOU GET IT YET?!?!?" MANNER.

    This show lacks any form of subtlety. I hate relating this to Spitting Image, because it's what everything else does. But this show really needs to take a read from their book. Your characters walk in, they build up to a joke whilst taking small jabs at similar topics, then they tell the main joke and then they leave it. That formula worked.

    I mean, one sketch I saw was pretty much a solid minute of "Eric Pickles is Fat" jokes, with maybe a "Ed Miliband has big teeth" joke thrown in. Come on, anyone that knows about comedy knows that you don't stand about for a solid minute going "Wasn't that joke funny? It works on so many levels!"

    And for the last time, dropping the F-bomb is not a joke in and of itself. You use the F-bomb to emphasize the main joke.
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