Chris Morris
Day Today ‘Pound stolen’ sketch goes viral after sterling tanks
Social media users post sardonic British humour after Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-budget
Martin Belam
27, Sep, 2022 @12:54 PM
Brass Eye’s outtakes show the brutal TV comedy was the tip of an iceberg
With rare footage and personal insights, the documentary Oxide Ghosts is a must-see for fans of Chris Morris’s satire, which is 25 years old
Brian Logan
22, Mar, 2022 @11:00 AM
The Day Today: prophetic parody that’s still funny in the fake news era
Armando Iannucci and Chris Morris’s satire first aired 27 years ago. These days the media is almost too shameless to satirise, but – as the cast reunite – the show’s hilarity remains
Phil Harrison
13, Aug, 2021 @3:00 PM
The Day Shall Come review – Chris Morris’s overcooked FBI farce
The Feds set up a deluded preacher as kingpin of a fake terror plot
Mark Kermode, Observer film critic
13, Oct, 2019 @7:00 AM
The Day Shall Come review – Chris Morris goes back to war on terror | Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
Nine years after his incendiary Four Lions, Morris returns with a movie about a tiny urban community and crooked FBI agents
Peter Bradshaw
11, Oct, 2019 @7:00 AM
'This isn't a paranoid future nightmare': the explosive return of Chris Morris
The satirist’s new film was inspired by the FBI’s attempts to manufacture terrorists. He talks about the problem with white liberals – and his duty to provoke
Catherine Shoard
27, Sep, 2019 @5:00 AM
The Day Shall Come review – Chris Morris returns with wild farce
The mysterious writer-director travels to Miami for a short but sharp comedy about an idealistic preacher targeted by the FBI
Benjamin Lee
12, Mar, 2019 @12:57 AM
'You've lost the news!' How The Day Today changed satire forever
25 years ago, Chris Morris and Armando Iannucci’s uproarious news spoof unleashed Fake News on the world (not to mention Alan Partridge)
Phil Harrison
17, Jan, 2019 @6:00 AM
Can BBC Informer finally subvert the Muslim stereotype problem on TV?
From oppressed wives to crazed jihadists, TV’s Islamophobia is rife. Nabhaan Rizwan stars in the new BBC thriller hoping to change the narrative
Stuart Jeffries
16, Oct, 2018 @8:00 AM
'Always go slightly too far': what makes ambush TV work?
Sacha Baron Cohen’s Who Is America? follows a long line of TV troublemakers who fooled guests into self-sabotage, but his scattergun approach risks missing the mark
Phil Harrison
17, Jul, 2018 @5:00 AM
The most exciting comedy and drama films of 2018
Wes Anderson’s dog-filled dystopia arrives, Christian Bale does Dick Cheney, and gay-conversion therapy stories show alongside supernatural thrillers
Stuart Heritage
27, Dec, 2017 @6:00 AM
Twenty years on … how comedy genius Chris Morris invented ‘fake news’
Out-takes from Brass Eye have been made into a film to mark its birthday – but fans of the cult show can only view it at rare live cinema screenings
Vanessa Thorpe
21, Oct, 2017 @11:05 PM
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