When they transferred their act to the small screen, now calling themselves French And Saunders, the show's mix of meta-satire, spoof and running gags was hugely popular throughout the late 80s and early 90s.
BBC2's meta-satire W1A has been lauded as art imitating life – an opinion highlighted by the rebranding of Today at Wimbledon as Wimbledon 2day (the W1A version saw revamped coverage titled Winbledon).
In a bit of accidental meta-satire, a police chief cited a hoax news story on Tuesday as part of an argument against decriminalizing marijuana.
If this new trailer shows us anything, it's that the world needs a little more meta-fuelled superhero satire.
That idea is undeniably intriguing: there's something bogglingly meta about Paxman fronting a news-satire show, as if the boundaries had collapsed between his own persona and the version of it Chris Morris played on The Day Today and Brass Eye.
WHENEVER "Childrens Hospital," the kinetically goofy medical show spoof on Adult Swim, wants to push its satire even further into the meta-sphere, it brings in Louis La Fonda.
+ A meta moment: The Van, Alex Bag's 2001 art world satire depicting her own "breakthrough" onto the scene via a fictionalized Artforum cover, screened at Art Basel alongside the new sequel, The Van (Redux).
+ A meta moment: The Van, Alex Bag's 2001 art world satire depicting her own "breakthrough" onto the scene via a fictionalised Artforum cover, screened at Art Basel alongside the new sequel, The Van (Redux).
