BREXIT banter
THE Road to Brexit has definitely not been paved with good intentions – more like buses covered with lies, long distance lorries stuck in fields outside Kent, and more meaningless votes than you can shake a straight banana at. There can’t be anyone who’s not sick to the back teeth of talking, hearing and reading about it.
Fortunately, this isn’t some highbrow political documentary to explain what brought the nation to this
week’s Article 50 deadline, but a comedy special from Toast of London collaborators Arthur Mathews and Matt Berry.
The sumptuously-voiced star plays historian Michael Squeamish, who has an excellent name but definitely dubious credentials and a tendency to play fast and loose with the facts.
Think Cunk on Brexit. Through the creative use of archive footage and filmed interviews Michael aims to explain how this sceptered isle ended up in this unholy mess. We say ‘creative use’, as a lot of it is completely unrelated nonsense, if not entirely fictitious.
Matt has enlisted some familiar faces from the comedy world to portray the talking head experts, such as Alan Partridge’s assistant Lynn (Felicity Montagu) as a less-than-devoted Corbynite, Taskmaster’s Phil Wang as an annoyingly-woke millennial type and The Thick of It’s Alex Macqueen as the Right Honourable Tony Braxton MP.
If you want the facts and the hard analysis, stick to Newsnight.
If you’re looking for laughs, and to finally be able to watch something about Brexit that doesn’t make you want to throw things at your telly, then tune into this.