“I see myself as a lowly cartoonist, not some towering satirist”
“As a child, I wanted to be an actress, novelist, film director, artist or rock star”, Grizelda tells us over the phone. “It didn’t work out.”
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“If Trump’s the crazy satirist, what are we?”
Fresh from a talk at the Cambridge Literary Festival, Armando Iannucci bounded into the room and shook our hands. The creator of Veep and The Thick Of It had spent the evening telling a packed…
“Satire is a release valve, not an engine for change”
There are few British comedy writers who are as prolific as John O’Farrell. Having spent years writing for Spitting Image and Have I Got News For You, he turned his hand to writing comic novels…
“We see ourselves as real news from an alternate universe”
Tim Telling, Editor of The Daily Mash and lead writer on BBC2’s The Mash Report, sits down with The Porter’s Log (via skype) to talk satire, social media and starting a TV show. There is…