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It would be an exaggeration to say that I ever "met" the late #RoyHattersley, the #LabourParty Deputy Leader 1983–92, who died on Saturday. We never shook hands or exchanged any words.
But as a young lobbyist in the late 1980s, I did a few times find myself in the same room or corridor as him. Each time I noticed that when agitated, he did frequently emit spit. Nowhere the spray hose quantities depicted by #SpittingImage, but it was definitely there. It was not an invented attribute.
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It would be an exaggeration to say that I ever "met" the late #RoyHattersley, the #LabourParty Deputy Leader 1983–92, who died on Saturday. We never shook hands or exchanged any words.
But as a young lobbyist in the late 1980s, I did a few times find myself in the same room or corridor as him. Each time I noticed that when agitated, he did frequently emit spit. Nowhere the spray hose quantities depicted by #SpittingImage, but it was definitely there. It was not an invented attribute.
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Well I'll be damned. There's no doubt in my mind that this is Tux's baby. ♥️
#tuxjunior #tuxedocat #straycat #resurrected #aww #uncanny #spittingimage #deadringer #zwerfkat
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Well I'll be damned. There's no doubt in my mind that this is Tux's baby. ♥️
#tuxjunior #tuxedocat #straycat #resurrected #aww #uncanny #spittingimage #deadringer #zwerfkat
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"The chicken song" - Spitting Image
Live in the studio.
Ronald Reagan plays the drums with dead chickens, Margaret Thatcher is on keyboards and maracas, with the police puppets dressed in silly wigs as Those Two Wet Gits.
Thatcher flings things into the audience: rubber chicken, inflatable raft, cuddly toy. Then sticks out her tongue and twists it around.
Quite, quite bizarre.
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"The chicken song" - Spitting Image
Live in the studio.
Ronald Reagan plays the drums with dead chickens, Margaret Thatcher is on keyboards and maracas, with the police puppets dressed in silly wigs as Those Two Wet Gits.
Thatcher flings things into the audience: rubber chicken, inflatable raft, cuddly toy. Then sticks out her tongue and twists it around.
Quite, quite bizarre.
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I Cloned Myself With Gemini’s AI Avatar Tool. The Result Was Unnervingly Me
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I Cloned Myself With Gemini’s AI Avatar Tool. The Result Was Unnervingly Me
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“The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable.”*…
Claude Monet, Caricature of Léon Manchon, 1858.… Still, there are bills to be paid. Mathilde Montpetit (and here) on how the young Claude Monet made bank…
At the age of fifteen, Claude Monet was, by his own account, one of the most successful artists in Le Havre. Crowds would gather in the Norman port city to gawk at the pictures he sold through a framing shop: not paintings of haystacks or of the sea or water lilies, but slightly cruel caricatures of local bigwigs and minor celebrities. He had already learned to commercialize, charging his customers 20 francs (around 200€ in today’s money). “If I had continued”, he claimed to an interviewer in Le Temps almost fifty years later, “I would have been a millionaire.”
Spurred by profits, the young Monet was productive, creating up to seven or eight of these caricatures a day; a small collection of them is now held at the Art Institute of Chicago, most donated by the former mayor Carter Harrison IV (1860–1953). The French art historian Rodolphe Walter has claimed that his caricatures constituted a “clandestine apprenticeship”, the first attempts by a son of Le Havre’s bourgeois shipbuilders to make his way in the art world.
The earliest are anonymous: the identities of The Man in the Small Hat or The Man with the Big Cigar are now lost, although the framing shop devotees may well have been able to name them. Some of the works are imitations, like the 1859 drawing of the French journalist August Vacquerie (1819–1895) that Monet seems to have copied from Nadar (1820–1910), probably the period’s most famous caricaturist.
Monet’s own 1858 caricature of Léon Manchon, the treasurer of Le Havre’s Société des amis des arts, captures his subject’s appearance but also, in the background, both his love of the arts and his work as a notary. Most fantastical is the 1858 caricature of Jules Didier (1831–1914), which shows the 1857 winner of the Prix de Rome as a “Butterfly Man” being led on a leash by a dog. Monet scholars remain divided as to the symbolic meaning of the iconography, though more obviously derisive is the drawing of a dejected fellow applicant to an 1858 Le Havre art subsidy, Henri Cassinelli. Monet has captioned it “Rufus Croutinelli”: a slightly forced pun on “croute”, meaning a daub of paint. Monet didn’t receive the subsidy either.
Sixty-year-old Monet’s claims about how he could have made his young fortune probably had more to do with his later difficulties in selling Impressionism than the actual fortunes to be made in portraits-charge, but it was the roughly 2,000 francs (20,000€) from selling these caricatures that allowed him to, against his father’s wishes, move to Paris and begin training as an artist. (He also received a pension from his wealthy aunt Marie-Jeanne Lecadre, with whom he had been living since his mother’s death in 1857.)
Perhaps it helped him in other ways as well. In the Le Temps interview, Monet claimed that it was while admiring his admirers at the framing shop window that he first encountered the work of his mentor Eugène Boudin (1824–1898), whose paintings were also hung there. Boudin would later take him en plein air for the first time. Perhaps, too, there’s something in the quickness of the caricature that speaks to what Impressionism would become — a desire to capture not just the literal appearance of a thing, but its true essence…
“Doing Impressions: Monet’s Early Caricatures (ca. late 1850s)” from @mathildegm.bsky.social in @publicdomainrev.bsky.social.
Re: the other end of Monet’s career, readers in (or visiting) the Bay Area might appreciate “Monet and Venice,” over a hundred works– mostly the fruits of Monet’s only visit to the City of Canals, but spiced with Venetian views from artists including Renoir, Sargent, and Canaletto– on display at the de Young Museum in San Francisco through July 26.
* Kurt Vonnegut
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As we cherish cartoons, we might might send pointedly-insightful birthday greetings to Peter Fluck; he was born on this date in 1941. An artist, caricaturist, and puppeteer, he was half of the partnership known as Luck and Flaw (with Roger Law), creators of the epochal British satirical TV puppet show Spitting Image.
The show ran from 1984 through 1996. (It was revived, with a different crew, in 2020.) Here’s a BBC appreciation of the original…
https://youtu.be/w_ks5Pb12kg?si=9a4LqrVO_CSnw-GF
#art #caricature #ClaudeMonet #culture #history #Monet #PeterFluck #puppetry #puppets #RogerLaw #SpittingImage #television -
“The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable.”*…
Claude Monet, Caricature of Léon Manchon, 1858.… Still, there are bills to be paid. Mathilde Montpetit (and here) on how the young Claude Monet made bank…
At the age of fifteen, Claude Monet was, by his own account, one of the most successful artists in Le Havre. Crowds would gather in the Norman port city to gawk at the pictures he sold through a framing shop: not paintings of haystacks or of the sea or water lilies, but slightly cruel caricatures of local bigwigs and minor celebrities. He had already learned to commercialize, charging his customers 20 francs (around 200€ in today’s money). “If I had continued”, he claimed to an interviewer in Le Temps almost fifty years later, “I would have been a millionaire.”
Spurred by profits, the young Monet was productive, creating up to seven or eight of these caricatures a day; a small collection of them is now held at the Art Institute of Chicago, most donated by the former mayor Carter Harrison IV (1860–1953). The French art historian Rodolphe Walter has claimed that his caricatures constituted a “clandestine apprenticeship”, the first attempts by a son of Le Havre’s bourgeois shipbuilders to make his way in the art world.
The earliest are anonymous: the identities of The Man in the Small Hat or The Man with the Big Cigar are now lost, although the framing shop devotees may well have been able to name them. Some of the works are imitations, like the 1859 drawing of the French journalist August Vacquerie (1819–1895) that Monet seems to have copied from Nadar (1820–1910), probably the period’s most famous caricaturist.
Monet’s own 1858 caricature of Léon Manchon, the treasurer of Le Havre’s Société des amis des arts, captures his subject’s appearance but also, in the background, both his love of the arts and his work as a notary. Most fantastical is the 1858 caricature of Jules Didier (1831–1914), which shows the 1857 winner of the Prix de Rome as a “Butterfly Man” being led on a leash by a dog. Monet scholars remain divided as to the symbolic meaning of the iconography, though more obviously derisive is the drawing of a dejected fellow applicant to an 1858 Le Havre art subsidy, Henri Cassinelli. Monet has captioned it “Rufus Croutinelli”: a slightly forced pun on “croute”, meaning a daub of paint. Monet didn’t receive the subsidy either.
Sixty-year-old Monet’s claims about how he could have made his young fortune probably had more to do with his later difficulties in selling Impressionism than the actual fortunes to be made in portraits-charge, but it was the roughly 2,000 francs (20,000€) from selling these caricatures that allowed him to, against his father’s wishes, move to Paris and begin training as an artist. (He also received a pension from his wealthy aunt Marie-Jeanne Lecadre, with whom he had been living since his mother’s death in 1857.)
Perhaps it helped him in other ways as well. In the Le Temps interview, Monet claimed that it was while admiring his admirers at the framing shop window that he first encountered the work of his mentor Eugène Boudin (1824–1898), whose paintings were also hung there. Boudin would later take him en plein air for the first time. Perhaps, too, there’s something in the quickness of the caricature that speaks to what Impressionism would become — a desire to capture not just the literal appearance of a thing, but its true essence…
“Doing Impressions: Monet’s Early Caricatures (ca. late 1850s)” from @mathildegm.bsky.social in @publicdomainrev.bsky.social.
Re: the other end of Monet’s career, readers in (or visiting) the Bay Area might appreciate “Monet and Venice,” over a hundred works– mostly the fruits of Monet’s only visit to the City of Canals, but spiced with Venetian views from artists including Renoir, Sargent, and Canaletto– on display at the de Young Museum in San Francisco through July 26.
* Kurt Vonnegut
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As we cherish cartoons, we might might send pointedly-insightful birthday greetings to Peter Fluck; he was born on this date in 1941. An artist, caricaturist, and puppeteer, he was half of the partnership known as Luck and Flaw (with Roger Law), creators of the epochal British satirical TV puppet show Spitting Image.
The show ran from 1984 through 1996. (It was revived, with a different crew, in 2020.) Here’s a BBC appreciation of the original…
https://youtu.be/w_ks5Pb12kg?si=9a4LqrVO_CSnw-GF
#art #caricature #ClaudeMonet #culture #history #Monet #PeterFluck #puppetry #puppets #RogerLaw #SpittingImage #television -
I just woke up from a dream like the one Sheridan Smith has in #InsideNo9, full of people I used to know, except … instead of “Time to Say Goodbye” by Bocelli & Brightman as my theme, I got “The Chicken Song” by #SpittingImage. Oddly appropriate, I thought.
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I just woke up from a dream like the one Sheridan Smith has in #InsideNo9, full of people I used to know, except … instead of “Time to Say Goodbye” by Bocelli & Brightman as my theme, I got “The Chicken Song” by #SpittingImage. Oddly appropriate, I thought.
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The Andrew Arrest Special: The "Sure-To-Be-Shanked Redemption" Compilati...
https://youtube.com/watch?v=zgr0XZGoTiA&si=OL1isvlSJ3dFEQUy I had no idea #spittingimage was still doing parody! cc @krypt3ia -
The Andrew Arrest Special: The "Sure-To-Be-Shanked Redemption" Compilati...
https://youtube.com/watch?v=zgr0XZGoTiA&si=OL1isvlSJ3dFEQUy I had no idea #spittingimage was still doing parody! cc @krypt3ia -
Former prince Andrew was arrested this morning and Spitting Image already has a The Andrew Arrest Special up. #SpittingImage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgr0XZGoTiA
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Saturday Night Live’s offensive Stranger Things episode left me worried about the UK version
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Saturday Night Live’s offensive Stranger Things episode left me worried about the UK version
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@cygnathreadbare
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Eso me recuerda al presidente Reagan en #SpittingImage que tenía el boton rojo de lanzar la bomba nuclear al lado del de llamar a la enfermera…. -
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Eso me recuerda al presidente Reagan en #SpittingImage que tenía el boton rojo de lanzar la bomba nuclear al lado del de llamar a la enfermera…. -
The King's Christmas Speech, Spitting Image Version
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The King's Christmas Speech, Spitting Image Version
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#SpittingImage escaped the wrath of Le C-Anal on the tubes and publishing #TheRestIsBullshit under their own site:
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#SpittingImage on the latest. garage & starver are hilarious 😂
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#SpittingImage on the latest. garage & starver are hilarious 😂
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#SpittingImage while C-Anal is away
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#nowwatching TRUMP FINALLY RELEASES THE FILES | The Rest Is Bulls*!t #spittingimage #satire #parody www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1hU...
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oh wow, Spitting Image just dropped a new vid on yt💙 it's on the BBC, prince harry & megan & Andrew, formerly known as prince 😁
#BBC #spittingimage #princeandrew #orangetumor #humour #humor #puppets
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Watch the latest The rest is bullshit before it too gets pulled. #SpittingImage
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The widespread decommissioning of the Boeing 747 will slowly make it easier to buy a jumbo jet.
It's pretty easy to climb inside a dog if you find the right fursuit.
On the other hand ... the modern Renault 4 is an electric car, so would be significantly less edible.
The rest of the activities in the "The Chicken Song" remain about as plausible as they were in the 80s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzTioHGQgeA
#Music #Pop #80s #Nostalgia #NoveltySongs #SpittingImage #Furry
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This #spittingimage episode scares the shit out of you! Tony Blair in The Shining?! | The Rest Is Bulls*!t #halloween www.youtube.com/watch?v=GB7D...
Tony Blair in The Shining?! | ... -
CW: Politics, but political comedy, YMMV
Spitting Image are doing great this year.
https://youtu.be/GB7DL8tyUek?si=Pd5YNDW-SKoyJqy1
Santa Maria de Halloween, muchachos!
#spittingimage #satire #trump #netenyahu #princeandrew #epstein #paddington
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CW: Politics, but political comedy, YMMV
Spitting Image are doing great this year.
https://youtu.be/GB7DL8tyUek?si=Pd5YNDW-SKoyJqy1
Santa Maria de Halloween, muchachos!
#spittingimage #satire #trump #netenyahu #princeandrew #epstein #paddington
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Spitting Image working hard not only to be banned from entering the USA but also deported from the Great Britain. #SpittingImage
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C-Anal's beef with Paddington B. Bear continues ...
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Avalon’s Jon Thoday Hits Back At Paddington Lawsuit: “It Didn’t Cross My Mind That A Company That Also Did Comedy Would Pursue Us For A Joke”
#News #Avalon #JonThoday #Paddington #SpittingImage #StudioCanalhttps://deadline.com/2025/10/avalon-jon-thoday-paddington-lawsuit-spitting-image-1236583320/
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Avalon’s Jon Thoday Hits Back At Paddington Lawsuit: “It Didn’t Cross My Mind That A Company That Also Did Comedy Would Pursue Us For A Joke”
#News #Avalon #JonThoday #Paddington #SpittingImage #StudioCanalhttps://deadline.com/2025/10/avalon-jon-thoday-paddington-lawsuit-spitting-image-1236583320/
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‘Spitting Image’ Roasts “Studio C Anal” After Deadline Revealed Paddington Copyright Lawsuit
#Legal #News #Paddington #SpittingImage #StudioCanalhttps://deadline.com/2025/10/spitting-image-roasts-studiocanal-paddington-lawsuit-1236575870/
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‘Spitting Image’ Roasts “Studio C Anal” After Deadline Revealed Paddington Copyright Lawsuit
#Legal #News #Paddington #SpittingImage #StudioCanalhttps://deadline.com/2025/10/spitting-image-roasts-studiocanal-paddington-lawsuit-1236575870/
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Bear-ly Legal... Paddington Breaks His Silence on The Court Case
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Paddington Vs Paddington: StudioCanal Sues Avalon After ‘Spitting Image’ Depicted Marmalade-Loving Bear As Potty-Mouthed Podcast Host
#News #Avalon #Paddington #SpittingImage #StudioCanalhttps://deadline.com/2025/10/paddington-studiocanal-sues-avalon-spitting-image-sketch-1236570929/
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Elon Musk starts a riot
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Would get Kimmelled in the USA. #SpittingImage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZWdHhTeQdQ
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"So look out for '#SpittingImage: The Rest is Bullshit' in September, kids. It's gonna be nasty to watch but funny in places, and it'll be over in a matter of minutes. Just like me with #StormyDaniels."
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Spitting Image Presents: The Rest is Bullshit
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmyvLI4z6b24Pim2MAdgi_RdU7N1bHeJq&si=I48psdFCqfVTP7iP
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@chestas His contributions to British public life, if any, will be swiftly forgotten. His contribution to British humour, as the target of Margaret Thatcher's handbag in 1980s episodes of #SpittingImage , still brings a smile to my face 😆
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IT’S BACK.
SPITTING IMAGE returns with NSFW content, and hotter hot takes than anything Jake Tapper squirts out on CNN.
You can see a lot of my puppet designs here, too:
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Prince Harry, Paddington Bear & Keir Starmer Puppets Lined Up For ‘Spitting Image: The Rest Is Bulls*!t’ YouTube Series
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This is not for decent people. But maybe that's what's needed in the world today. #SpittingImage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFcmjqIRjb4
