Lonely Island member Jorma Taccone recently confirmed the spoof news during an interview with The Daily Beast.
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El-P and Killer Mike revealed their new role with a spoof news report about an alien invasion.
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In a spoof news sketch video posted on the band's Twitter feed, Tyler and Perry announced the European tour, with Tyler asking "Any truth to the rumors that this could be the last hurrah?" to which Perry replies: "Who the hell knows".
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Retrieved 9 December 2010. The concept of Ryanair charging for even this most essential of customer services was foreseen by the spoof news website "The Mardale Times" some five months previously, in its article "Ryanair announce new 'Pay-Per-Poo' service".
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Vaughan Edward Savidge (born 6 June 1956) is a former British freelance newsreader for BBC Radio 3, continuity announcer for BBC Radio 4, and formerly a newsreader the World Service. He also performed spoof news items on Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive.
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In 2011 he appeared in ITV's series Stand-up Hero. In 2010, he featured in BBC One's end of year spoof news review, Unwrapped with Miranda Hart. He was also one of the principal characters in the CBeebies series Me Too!, playing Rudi the market trader.
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He would announce "Good evening to you all, except Mrs. Ada Shagnasty of Leeds". In The World of Beachcomber he often used a similar line ending "except Maurice Ponk." The show included spoof news items including, "Long-missing Van Gogh ear found in a British Rail sandwich".
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Sky Spoof News was a segment featuring Lloyd Griffith playing a Sky Sports News presenter named "Glen Stefani", typically alongside one of the actual presenters from the channel. The segment typically features blunders from presenters and journalists, as well as entertaining football clips. On occasion, Griffith also presented from other events such as the PDC World Darts Championship.
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The weekend before the film's release, the Fox Network aired a half-hour special on the film, the first third of which was a spoof news report on the events that happen in the film. Roger Ebert attributed most of the film's early success to its teaser trailers and marketing campaigns, acknowledging them as "truly brilliant".Ebert & Roeper. atthemovies.tv. Retrieved July 8, 2008.
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Zhirinovsky Explains why He Swatted Ass RIAN 7 February 2012 It received mostly negative reactions from Russian users. The video also featured on Channel One's comedy show Yesterday Live on 17 March 2012, as part of a spoof news clip from a fictitious US-based TV channel, reporting that, in Russia, there was a shortage of gasoline, with people abandoning cars and resorting to other modes of transportation.
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In 1991, Morris joined Armando Iannucci's spoof news project On the Hour. Broadcast on BBC Radio 4, it saw him work alongside Iannucci, Steve Coogan, Stewart Lee, Richard Herring and Rebecca Front. In 1992, Morris hosted Danny Baker's Radio 5 Morning Edition show for a week whilst Baker was on holiday. In 1994, Morris began a weekly evening show, the Chris Morris Music Show, on BBC Radio 1 alongside Peter Baynham and 'man with a mobile phone' Paul Garner.
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Hark at Barker is a 1969 British comedy series combining elements of sitcom and sketch show, which starred Ronnie Barker. It was made for the ITV network by London Weekend Television. Each show began with a spoof news item read by Barker as a continuity announcer. He would then introduce the main part of the programme, a lecture to be given by Lord Rustless (also Barker) on a different topic each week from his stately home, Chrome Hall.
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Recent governments (such as Verhofstadt I Government) have transferred certain federal competences to the regional governments. On 13 December 2006, a spoof news broadcast by the Belgian Francophone public broadcasting station RTBF declared that Flanders had decided to declare independence from Belgium. The 2007 federal elections showed more support for Flemish autonomy. All the political parties that advocated a significant increase of Flemish autonomy increased their share of the votes and seats in the Belgian parliament.
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Several Flemish parties still advocate for more Flemish autonomy, some even for Flemish independence (see Partition of Belgium), whereas the French-speakers would like to keep the current state as it is. Recent governments (such as Verhofstadt I Government) have transferred certain federal competences to the regional governments. On 13 December 2006, a spoof news broadcast by the Belgian Francophone public broadcasting station RTBF announced that Flanders had decided to declare independence from Belgium. The 2007 federal elections showed more support for Flemish autonomy, marking the start of the 2007–2011 Belgian political crisis.
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Between 2006 until 2012 Holmes presented a BBC Radio 6 Music show every Saturday at 10am, where he "plays some music and messes around in the gaps" alongside his friend and sidekick David Whitehead and producer Adam Hudson. The format of the show was similar to satirist Chris Morris's radio shows from the late 80s and early 90s. Heavily inspired themes include spoof news items, voiceovers and contributions from children, spoken words from various broadcasters and politicians cut up and re-edited into nonsense and a general subversive edginess very much in the Morris style.
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As a comedian, Conolly is often seen in the Friday night show in The Main Room at The Comedy Store on Sunset Strip, Los Angeles and has appeared at Stand Up NY in New York City, Zanies in Chicago, Flappers in Burbank, The Casablanca Resort and Casino in Mesquite, The Ice House in Pasadena, The Improv in Irvine and recently competed in the World Series of Comedy in Las Vegas. David was also the MC at the World Marbles Competition. Conolly is the host of Hindsight News, an online spoof news show.
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Rizwan began his career at 16 making YouTube videos that saw him gain notice, which resulted in him gaining roles on various television and streaming programming. In 2013 he began starring in the BAFTA award nominated series DNN: Definitely Not Newsround, a spoof news comedy series for children. In 2015 he starred in Disney XD UK series 'Mega Awesome Super Hacks' alongside Oli White and Jimmy Hill. In 2015, Rizwan travelled to Pakistan, his country of birth, to film the documentary 'How Gay is Pakistan?' which explores the issues faced by other LGBTQ Muslims living under Islamic law that deems homosexuality illegal.
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Southend News Network is a news parody website that aims to "have a dig at the powers that be". Starting as a local spoof news site from the UK, it shot to national, and then international, fame after several cases where an SNN story caused confusion by being taken as fact, including by the English Defence League, a far-right network. Another claim to fame was their recognition as an "official media outlet" by local government. In January 2018, journalist Milo Yiannopoulos read out during a live YouTube broadcast an article from the site prompting questions about his source checking.
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The first spoof news report featuring Pie, released just after the election of Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the Labour Party in September 2015, was responding to mainstream media reports that gave particular weight to Corbyn's past relationship with Diane Abbott. Walker was soon approached by several media companies, including RT UK, which offered him complete creative control. He worked with RT for several months before leaving in July 2016, just before his appearance at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August. The character received international coverage after the 2016 US election, when his comments on Donald Trump's victory went viral, becoming a YouTube trending video.
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Satire was a key theme in the series' comedy. For example, one spoof news element might include a routine announcement that NASA had once again announced a delay in the launch of its Space Shuttle owing to technical difficulties, as the screen showed the shuttle on its launch pad with oxygen streaming off the tanks, overlaid with the sound of a car engine turning over but not starting. An opening graphic featured the same blue screen and white analogue clock ticking down to 9:00 p.m. as preceded the original Nine O'Clock News, followed by an announcement of the time in similar voice and, in parody, the announcement that this was "definitely not the Nine O'Clock News".
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It pushed the boundaries of taste but also explored political satire, social commentary, sexism, homophobia, racism, and police brutality. Like Viz, Skank featured comic strips, photo strips, joke articles, and celebrity references. It featured popular comic characters satirising Black communities of London, such as "Mary Mampy" - a 'bad gyal' from Peckham; "The Fugitive", a baby father on the run from his numerous baby mothers; "Scotland Yardie" – a Jamaican no-nonsense cop; "Rachel Prejudice" – a subtle dig at Black sell-outs; "White Galfriend", a look at mixed race relationships; "Malcolm Vex", a frustrated revolutionary; and "Wendy Weave- on", a spoilt supermodel with baldness issues. Spoof news stories frequently appeared in Skank, such as ‘Government ban on Ugly Women’, 'Pubic Weave Extensions', 'Free Ganja competitions', and 'Yam Throwing - new Olympic Sport announced'.
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Sandwiches served on trains were a source of amusement long before the advent of British Rail, as evidenced by a humorous column in the October 1884 edition of the American Railway Journal: The British Rail sandwich was often ridiculed on British radio and television and in numerous books. An episode of The Goon Show entitled "The Collapse of the British Railway Sandwich System" was first broadcast on the BBC Home Service on 8 March 1954. The Goon Show: Volume 23 "The Collapse of the British Railway Sandwich System" (BBC Radio Collection CD – Amazon listing – 25 February 2009) In 1972, the show Milligna (or Your Favourite Spike) included spoof news items, including "Long-missing Van Gogh ear found in a British Rail sandwich". In his book Queuing for Beginners: The Story of Daily Life From Breakfast to Bedtime, Joe Moran describes the British Rail sandwich as "a metaphor for social decline since it became a running joke on The Goon Show".
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