Spitting Image: Real life has become more like the puppet satire – Jim Duffy
As TV show Spitting Image returns, Jim Duffy feels that modern life is increasingly imitating its subversive art.
So Spitting Image is back! New characters, new memes, new laughs. I missed the old Spitting Image and its sarcastic optics trained on those in power, celebrity and the nouveau riche. The writers didn’t miss and hit the wall when they went to town on Margaret Thatcher, John Major, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Prince Charles.
The programme was so accurate in how it characterised these people from the Royal Family and Rupert Murdoch to the Pope to even Roger Moore of 007 fame. But, as the new series begins to air, I actually feel a little sad, as really nothing has changed about those in power, with money and in the limelight. I actually feel we are living in a literal and figurative Spitting Image world, where we are really just all memes.