Cunk on Earth (2022)

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So I fell into a vat of Philomela Cunk and watched all the 30-minute episodes. Diane Morgan is amazing as the world's world documentary presenter, especially in the bits where she's improvising through interviews with befuddled experts (who are apparently in on it, to a point - which is why they don't walk off - but it's nevertheless convincing). Whether it's Cunk on Britain, on Earth, or the one-offs on Shakespeare and Christmas, what I think makes Cunk so hilarious is that it doesn't just have ONE comedic tool, but rather uses them all - parody, anachronisms, flawed logic, metatext, satire (oh, and when it does satire, it's so bloody beautiful), mispronunciations, conspiracy think, improvisation, pranking, slaptstick, willful misunderstanding, sight gags, vulgarity, memes, absurdism, and a general sense that Philomena, as ignorant as she is a Philistine, is working off notes written by a lazy high school student, the type the Internet likes to publish from the desk of a frustrated teacher. If one thing doesn't make you laugh, the next will. Here's to Cunk giving us her take on the whole ruddy universe. 1 year 4 months ago