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Private Eye (Magazine)
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This is about the magazine. For the blokes in trenchcoats and fedoras, see Private Detective or Hardboiled Detective.A British fortnightly magazine of current affairs and satirical humour, running since 1961. Founders included its first editor Richard Ingrams, and comedians Peter Cook and Willie Rushton, who had all been contemporaries at Shrewsbury School and later at Oxbridge.It does a lot of investigative journalism and has been sued for libel a considerable number of times (it usually loses, and would have been bankrupted by the damages if not for donations from supporters and subscribers). Its editor, Ian Hislop (a team captain on Have I Got News for You), even held the record for 'Most Sued Man in England' for a time. For many years it was verging on a point of pride how long it had been since they won a case. The first time Ian Hislop won a libel suit, the following issue was filled in celebratory manner with yet more libelous material, just because they knew they'd get away with it. note For those reading from outside the UK, it's important to point out that under English law it is possible for something to be both perfectly true and libelous, as it is up to the defendant to prove the truth of what he/she has said, and even then truth is not considered an absolute defense against libel. In the United States, the person bringing the suit has to prove that what was said is false, at least when the defendant is a newspaper or other media outlet (the standard for when the defendant is an individual varies from state to state, but the law of defamation as applied to the media is largely controlled by the Free Press Clause of the First Amendment to the federal Constitution and is thus consistent across states). Also, American law does consider the truth to be an absolute defense; moreover, in the United States, statements of opinion are also protected, and the definition of "opinion" is quite broad—even factually false statements can be "opinion" in the right context. The flip side of this is that getting an injunction to prevent something being published in the first place is rather harder in Britain - otherwise known as Publish and be damned. Or at least, it was, before the current fad for "super injunctions", where the target is not even allowed to say they have had an injunction put upon them, let alone talk about the original subject... | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed: Gary Bloke from "Celeb" has obvious physical similarities to Pete Townshend. However, he also has similarities to Bob Geldof (publicity-hungry famous-for-being-famous wife, daughter with bizarre name) and the strip occasionally parodies high-profile events involving other real-life elderly rock stars. | |
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The Vicar | |
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The Vicar: Tony Blair was presented as one in the 'Vicar of St Albion's' parody, inspired by a comparison that had been made by many in the media who had compared his style when making speeches to that of a trendy Anglican vicar giving a sermon. (Hilarious in Hindsight, now that Blair is a Catholic.) | |
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Note from Ed. | |
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Note from Ed.: Usually to say the columnist is fired. | |
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Inversion: A very common joke format in the second half of the Eye. For example, if the Conservative Party has a debate over whether they support gay couples adopting children, the Eye will report it as gay couples having a debate over whether they support adopting the Conservative Party. A historian saying that the Battle of Britain was won by the Royal Navy not the RAF is reported by the Eye saying the Battle of Trafalgar was won by the RAF (somehow) rather than the Royal Navy. And so on. | |
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Anachronism Stew | |
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Anachronism Stew: Always Played for Laughs in many Retraux-style parodies. For example, current events will often be covered in a Victorian or mediaeval style, sometimes with reasonable contemporary equivalents (like the Sudoku craze being mirrored by the crossword craze in the nineteenth century) but sometimes just incongruously using modern technologies or values in the past. And there will always be Identical Grandson-type ancestors of current celebrities and politicians. One common variant, which is being scaled back since his death, was to have the ancient Bill Deedes, editor of the Daily Telegraph, be the editor of the various historical publications, such as the Daily Chain Mail, or the "first ever issue" of Haaretz (which is usually one portraying the birth of Christ"). | |
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Girlboss Feminist | |
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Girlboss Feminist: Polly Filler is a parody of women who think and act like this. Ms Filler is to be read as a successful well-rewarded newspaper columnist who uses the vocabulary of feminism and female empowerment, decries misogyny, demands the same pay and recognition as her male counterparts, and boasts of being an empowered woman. And in the next paragraph when boasting about her perfect home life, reveals this female solidarity does not extend to lowly people like her nanny or her cleaner. She complains the cleaner is too lazy for the £5 an hour she gets paid, and about her nanny's reluctance to be on call 24/7 when she is being given a generous opportunity to work unpaid in London, improve her awful English for free, and not to be in her native Slovenia. | |
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Distaff Counterpart | |
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Dave Spart, and occasionally his Distaff Counterpart Deirdre Spart and gay version Cedric Spart: stereotypical far left wing politics. | |
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Strange Minds Think Alike | |
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Strange Minds Think Alike: One minor arc has Denis make a fake Valentine card for the Chancellor of the Exchequer's wife, asking Bill to have it posted in the tiny Sussex village of Frant. In the following letters, he finds that the Chancellor sent a similar card to Mrs Thatcher, and had it posted in the neighbouring village of Eridge. | |
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Is the Answer to This Question "Yes"? | |
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Is the Answer to This Question "Yes"?: When a newspaper leads with a story about a study that has proved something that was obvious to begin with (e.g. students enjoy drinking), the Eye does a segment with the same headline followed by additional stories like 'Pope admits he may have Catholic tendencies' and 'Bear accused of woodland defecation'. A related joke is reporting banal celebrity or royal news in a generic way stripped of all names to show how Captain Obvious it is, such as reporting on Prince Harry having a scandal as "Nineteen-year-old boy goes out, gets drunk, does ill-advised things; nation stunned". The ultimate example of this was the cover on the birth of Prince George, which just consisted of the huge headline "WOMAN HAS BABY". | |
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Arch-Enemy: At varying times this role has been filled by James Goldsmith, Robert Maxwell, Jeffrey Archer, Rupert Murdoch, Piers Morgan and Mohammed Al Fayed among others. Of these, Maxwell and Archer are the most infamous. Hislop mentions that Maxwell and Archer were the longest-term enemies; Archer was the longest, whilst Maxwell was the biggest, with his numerous libel writs. It took the Eye 40 years before Jeffrey was put away. Hislop mentions Jeffrey as being their most satisfying scalp; Maxwell's trickery was only exposed after he died whilst Jeffrey, who, to Hislop, embodied the "vice, folly, and humbug" of the modern politician, could know he was beaten from his prison cell: | |
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Flame War | |
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Flame War: The "From the Messageboards" column is set in a fictional forum where one seems to be permanently ongoing. Time to end the disastrous democratic experiment. | |
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British Rockstar | |
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British Rockstar: Gary Bloke of the Celeb strip, and Spiggy Topes (later "Sir Spigismond Topes") of Spiggy Topes and the Turds. The latter is unusual in that the joke started contemporaneously with The British Invasion and has continued in real-time, with his career paralleling that of Real Life musicians. This also makes Spiggy Topes a Composite Character, as he is basically used as a stand-in for any has-been rock star who's been in the news, from Paul McCartney to Rod Stewart and more. Following the Pædo Hunt in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal, in which several musicians from The '70s were implicated, the Eye has also introduced the character of "Dave Rock", a seventies British Rockstar who always seems to have a connection with the latest musician to be arrested and accidentally reveals his own paedophilic or non-consensual sexual offenses. | |
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Captain Obvious | |
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A related joke is reporting banal celebrity or royal news in a generic way stripped of all names to show how Captain Obvious it is, such as reporting on Prince Harry having a scandal as "Nineteen-year-old boy goes out, gets drunk, does ill-advised things; nation stunned". The ultimate example of this was the cover on the birth of Prince George, which just consisted of the huge headline "WOMAN HAS BABY". | |
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Malaproper | |
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Malaproper and Metaphorgotten: The Colemanballs column. | |
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Compressed Vice | |
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Compressed Vice: A Running Gag in one letter has Denis addicted to playing Space Invaders. | |
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Former Bigot | |
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Former Bigot: the change in editorial direction in the magazine when Richard Ingrams retired and handed over editorship to Ian Hislop. Under Ingrams, a valid criticism of the magazine was that it was hostile to minorities note Anyone who wasn't a product of a public school, upper-middle-class, white, male, straight and living in a nice part of London counted as fair game for unkind humour; Hislop saw how this could piss off a substantial part of the magazine's potential readership, and made changes. and especially manifested a streak of homophobia.note Ingrams was openly homophobic and made no secret of his disdain and contempt for gays. Even in his eighties he was still expressing open hostility to gays in his "retirement project", a magazine called The Oldie. Hislop quietly but firmly changed the direction of the magazine, arguing that jokes made about gay people purely because they were gay didn't really belong. A long-running cartoon strip called "The Gays" - usually only a collection of homophobic stereotypes - was retired. its replacement. "It's Grim Up North London", centres on an Ambiguously Gay couple called Jez and Quinn - but the focus of the humour is not on their being gay, it skewers the fads, pretentiousness and superficiality of life among the trendy hipster set of affluent Hipsterville London. In the 2020s the magazine has been accused of reverting due to a series of stories and cartoons sympathetic to "gender critical" feminists. | |
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Mood-Swinger | |
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Mood-Swinger: Glenda Slagg, a parody of female columnists like Lynda Lee-Potter and other columnists of the same stamp, who swing between gushingly effusive and poisonously biting opinions of the same celebrity between columns—Glenda is an exaggeration, switching from one pole to the other in alternating paragraphs. | |
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Historical Longevity Joke | |
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Historical Longevity Joke: Jokes of this type were constantly made about ancient journalists Bill Deedes and Alistair Cooke prior to their deaths (and Deedes jokes still occasionally show up). | |
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Single-Issue Wonk | |
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For a while, Private Eye itself was a Single-Issue Wonk on the idea that the MMR vaccine was to blame for a spike in U.K. autism rates, at one point running a 32-page "special report" that was denounced as dangerous scaremongering by the mainstream scientific community. After the MMR-autism link was exposed as a hoax, Eye columnist Phil Hammond admitted that the paper "got it wrong" and inappropriately stuck with the story even after conflicting factors had emerged. | |
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Full-Circle Revolution | |
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Full-Circle Revolution: Discussed by Denis, when the French voted out Valéry Giscard d'Estaing: | |
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Place Worse Than Death | |
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Neasden, a suburb of London, is portrayed as a bizarre Place Worse Than Death indicating everything that is most dull and boring about modern British urban life. | |
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Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe | |
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Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe: In the "Book of (Insert Current Israeli Leader Here)" segments and sometimes some of the Retraux newspaper segments which compare current events to historical ones. | |
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Bulungi | |
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Bulungi: The fictional African country of "Rumbabwe, formerly British Rumbabaland". (It’s also a pun on rum baba, a dessert featuring cake soaked in a rum sauce with cream.) | |
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Long List | |
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Long List: Usually subverted, with a ten-point (or more) list being promised but it petering out around point 6 with "Er...That's it." | |
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Pædo Hunt | |
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Following the Pædo Hunt in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal, in which several musicians from The '70s were implicated, the Eye has also introduced the character of "Dave Rock", a seventies British Rockstar who always seems to have a connection with the latest musician to be arrested and accidentally reveals his own paedophilic or non-consensual sexual offenses. | |
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Bavarian Fire Drill | |
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Bavarian Fire Drill: Private Eye's owner and longtime contributing editor Peter Cook was a master of this trope. His finest hour was leading a raid on the Mirror offices at a time when Maxwell had tried to force the magazine off the newsstands (and succeeded with WH Smith, a large British newsagents chain). He and some cohorts, including current editor Ian Hislop, convinced the doorman and security at the Mirror offices that they were there to see Robert Maxwell. They used this to vandalize Maxwell's office, steal the master copy of a planned spoof Not Private Eye smear-job piece Maxwell had been producing (they had previously sent the journalists involved with the project a case of whisky, with predictable results), order a champagne lunch to be delivered at Maxwell's expense, and, finally, very drunk, phoning Maxwell personally in New York and saying "guess where we are". | |
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The Christmas Annual | |
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The Christmas Annual: Which collects the best and least date-specific of the year's comedy material. | |
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Gargle Blaster | |
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Trebles all round is a phrase used when someone has made money with no effort, frequently applied to lawyers. If the phrase concerns a foreign "junket", then it will be given a regional spin, for instance, a Cabinet minister's...holiday...in China was announced with "treble mao-tai's all round." (By the way, drinking a treble maotai is a silly thing to do—even CPC officials down them one at a time, with plenty of chaser.) | |
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Amusingly Short List | |
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Amusingly Short List: A Running Gag is to blatantly pad the lists by making the last two entries "Er..." and "That's it". | |
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Romance Novel | |
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Romance Novel: The "Dame Sylvie Krin" segments are parodies of this, with subjects such as Prince Charles and Camilla or Rupert Murdoch and Wendi Deng. | |
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Herr Doktor | |
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Herr Doktor: Doctor Bosendorfer, a fellow guest on one of the Thatchers' infrequent holidays at the Schloss Bangelstein in Switzerland. | |
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Transatlantic Equivalent | |
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Transatlantic Equivalent: The second half of the Eye is similar to America's The Onion in content. | |
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New Media Are Evil | |
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New Media Are Evil: The Eye is usually at least somewhat guilty of this, although it changes over time. On the other hand, they are also fond of mocking newspapers' (especially the Guardian and the Telegraph) belief that they can get bloggers to do their jobs for them for free by encouraging them to "Join the debate!" | |
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Right Way/Wrong Way Pair | |
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Right Way/Wrong Way Pair: Denis complains of being handed a religious pamphlet that contrasted a 'decrepit wino' staggering down the Primrose Path to Hell with a smug stockbroker ascending the straight and narrow way to the Celestial City. | |
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Celebrity Paradox | |
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Celebrity Paradox: One letter has Denis apologising for not being able to meet Bill, because he'd "had to entertain a man called Deedes who has just got the boot from the Hot Seat at the Telegraph". | |
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Sdrawkcab Name | |
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Sdrawkcab Name: Denis is inclined to reverse Robert Mugabe's surname so that, read aloud, it sounds like 'ee ba gum'. | |
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Incredibly Obvious Bug | |
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Incredibly Obvious Bug: At one point Boris, the butler at Number Ten, brings in a vase of daffodils and plugs it into the wall. | |
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Truth in Television | |
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Truth in Television: Denis Thatcher did regularly correspond with Bill Deedes, though in real life his letters were handwritten rather than typed. | |
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Unsuspectingly Soused | |
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Unsuspectingly Soused: When Mrs Thatcher is due to be interviewed by Robin Day, Denis meets Day beforehand and spikes his drink so that he's drunk by the time of the interview. | |
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Driver of a Black Cab | |
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Driver of a Black Cab: The "A Cab Driver Writes" segment, which portray any recent celebrity or politician who's said something intolerant as such a cabbie. Occasional variations appear, e.g. Islamic extremists being portrayed as "A Camel Driver Writes". | |
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Arc Number | |
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Arc Number: 94. This derives from a common gag where a long run-on list or article will end in "cont. page 94", the joke being that the Eye is obviously nowhere near thick enough to actually have a page 94. While this joke is still used straight, the number has become iconic and representative of the Eye itself, so is now found in other context—any parody of a topical media that involves numbers will use it (e.g. The Number 23 is parodied as The Number 94). As noted above, it also appears in the name of their podcast. | |
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Screw Politeness, I'm a Senior! | |
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Screw Politeness, I'm a Senior!: At a dinner to celebrate Harold Macmillan's ninetieth birthday, attended by Alec Douglas-Home, Edward Heath and Margaret Thatcher, Macmillan spends the dinner telling his successors how terrible they are. Afterwards, Mrs Thatcher suggests that the old man's mind is going, but Denis is more inclined to think this trope is in play. | |
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Boyfriend-Blocking Dad | |
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Boyfriend-Blocking Dad: Taken to ridiculous extremes by "Family_man", one of the commenters in From The Messageboards, whose catchphrase is "Any of these (subject of news) come near my girls and I swear I'll do time". | |
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Cross-Cast Role | |
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Referring to the perceived resemblance of Nicola Sturgeon, former leader of the Scottish National Party, to the Scottish comedy character Wee Jimmy Krankie (comedian Janette Tough cross-dressing as a schoolboy). | |
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A Day in the Limelight | |
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A Day in the Limelight: Polly Filler's husband "The Useless Simon", normally The Ghost, took over her column in the wake of her reading Fifty Shades of Grey and becoming a sexual submissive. | |
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Multiple-Choice Past | |
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Multiple-Choice Past: Exactly how "poor old Podmore" died changes each time Denis recalls it. | |
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Only Known by Their Nickname | |
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Only Known by Their Nickname: Sometimes people or institutions are only ever referred to by their nickname, which can create a Continuity Lockout for new readers. More commonly though the real name is used at the beginning before shifting to the nickname for the rest of the segment. | |
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Trend Covers | |
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Trend Covers: The recent "Bookalikes" column is about this. | |
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Deliberate Values Dissonance | |
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Deliberate Values Dissonance: Denis, being elderly and reactionary, frequently uses racist language to describe the dignitaries he meets abroad. | |
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Fauxlosophic Narration | |
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Fauxlosophic Narration: The subject of the "Pseuds Corner" column which gathers up uses of such phrases in the arts (and latterly the corporate world). | |
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Funny Spoon | |
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Funny Spoon: The "Me and My Spoon" column, a parody of celebrity lifestyle columns. | |
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Executive Meddling | |
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Executive Meddling: Strictly and doggedly averted by Peter Cook throughout his 32 years as majority shareholder - he contributed jokes (and money) but never interfered editorially (and even bought out at least one minority shareholder who tried to do so) which surely makes him unique among proprietors of any sort of current affairs journal since the early 20th century. Paul Foot, a long-serving Eye journalist, called him "the essence of the non-interfering proprietor". | |
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Precision F-Strike | |
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Precision F-Strike: The Eye's unapologetic editorial stance tends to draw threats of litigation fairly frequently. In the case of Arkell vs Pressdram they responded to such a threat with quite possibly one of the finest F-Strikes in history. | |
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The Nicknamer | |
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The Nicknamer: See above. | |
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No Name Given | |
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No Name Given: Denis invariably refers to Maurice's mistress only as "[his] Air Malta girl". Her name is finally revealed in 1987 to be Mrs Bernadette Mifsud. | |
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Dead Horse Trope | |
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A now vanished Running Gag involved a discussion being sidetracked at the first mention of The Sizzler, an exorbitantly expensive breakfast available on long train journeys, with the article wandering off into singing The Sizzler's praises. | |
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Selective Stupidity | |
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Selective Stupidity: There's a regular feature called "Dumb Britain", which lists wrong answers given to supposedly simple questions by quiz show contestants. Often criticised in the letters pages. One 'dumb answer' was to the question 'Where do Panama hats come from" which was answered with 'Luton'.note A city that used to be famous for its hatmaking industry in the early 20th century. A letter pointed out that this was a perfectly reasonable response since the answer was obviously not 'Panama'. | |
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Mundane Made Awesome | |
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Mundane Made Awesome: The Sizzler (see below). | |
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Medal of Dishonor | |
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Medal of Dishonor: The Eye bestows the Order of the Brown Nose (OBN) upon people who engage in egregious sycophantic praise. There are also three annual awards or sets thereof announced at Christmas or New Year: The Nooks and Corners architecture columnist "Piloti" awards the Sir Hugh Casson Medal for the Worst New Building of the year. (It's named after an architect whom Piloti despised because in his later years he routinely took a fee to give evidence in favour of demolishing worthwhile buildings.) Rotten Boroughs, the local government column, presents a set of awards to local councillors, senior council staff etc. that it has reported on throughout the year. The categories vary from year to year but have included e.g. "Tory Bigot of the Year", "Jailbird of the Year" and "Nepotism Award". The Literary Review column presents the Christmas Log-Rolling Awards for the most blatant examples of log-rolling (i.e. writers trading favours by praising each other's books) and other such disreputable practices in newspapers' and magazines' "book of the year" pieces. | |
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Unusual Euphemism | |
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Unusual Euphemism: Has added several to the language, mostly deriving from weedy excuses or alibis given by politicians embroiled in scandals: "Discussing Uganda" / "Ugandan discussions" = having sex "Tired and emotional" = drunk "Exotic cheroot" = cannabis | |
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Not in My Backyard! | |
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Not in My Backyard!: Denis is horrified to find that the Channel Tunnel rail link (or 'Frog Conveyor Belt' as he calls it) will pass through the suburb of Dulwich, where he has bought a house in the hope of retiring. | |
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StrawmanPolitical | |
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Strawman Political: Many. Dave Spart, and occasionally his Distaff Counterpart Deirdre Spart and gay version Cedric Spart: stereotypical far left wing politics. Sir Hubert Gussett: ultraconservative rural Tory politics. The older character of "Sir Bufton Tufton", who predates the Eye, is also sometimes mentioned. | |
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Insistent Terminology | |
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Insistent Terminology: Referring to Alec Douglas-Home as "Baillie Vass" and Andrew Neil as Andrew Neill with two Ls (apparently purely because it annoys him). Mohammed Al Fayed is always referred to simply as Mohammed Fayed, on the grounds that he added the 'al' himself. Piers Morgan is always referred to as Piers Moron, though recently the "Moron" title has passed to Dominic Mohan, editor of The Sun. | |
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The Mole | |
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The Mole: It's abundantly clear that Boris is the Russians' man in Number Ten. | |
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In the Style of | |
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In the Style of: Much of the humour in the second half is based on this, such as the "Book of (Insert Current Israeli Leader Here)" bits which present contemporary Middle East events in the style of the King James Bible. | |
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People's Republic of Tyranny | |
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People's Republic of Tyranny: The "Prime Ministerial Decrees" spoof of Gordon Brown had him constantly spouting Communist jargon adapted to the here and now, such as referring to David Cameron's politics as "neo-Bullingdonite-Etonist deviationist backsliding". Also sometimes appears in the Dave Spart segments. | |
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Gold Digger | |
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Gold Digger: Wendi Deng is always portrayed this way: | |
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Strongly Worded Letter | |
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Strongly Worded Letter: A frequent feature is a spoof Split Screen of the letters pages of the Guardian and Telegraph, with two writers each having written a Strongly Worded Letter about a topical news story, but being outraged for opposite reasons. The Eye itself sometimes receives them, typically from fans who threaten to cancel their subscription due to Dude, Not Funny! or They Changed It, Now It Sucks!. | |
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Running Gag | |
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The Eye itself sometimes receives them, typically from fans who threaten to cancel their subscription due to Dude, Not Funny! or They Changed It, Now It Sucks!. | |
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Mighty Whitey | |
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Mighty Whitey: Prosser-Cluff, a former colleague of Denis's whom he remembers fondly for the hard line he took with the local workers. | |
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Asian Speekee Engrish | |
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Asian Speekee Engrish: Evely singre time Wendi "Deng" Dung, rife of Austrarian newpape tycoon Lupert Muldoch is poltlayed in de megezene. | |
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