The Revolution Will Be Televised

Series two, episode six
As with all political satire, gags are funnier if your targets are total arseholes. And with subjects for this concluding episode including tax-dodging corporations, health ministers and Nick Clegg, there are plenty of laughs. As ever, it’s the ballsier stuff that stands out. The bit where tabloid hack Dale Maily (basically a younger, more racist Alan Partridge) hangs out at the Notting Hill carnival asking black people when they’re going to start fighting boasts the sort of cojones we’ve not seen since ‘Brass Eye’.

Other pranks fall flat. Posting ‘wanted’ posters of Blair and Bush inside The Hague feels like the work of bored students, while the ‘hipster safari’ skit is an attempt to hop on a bandwagon that rolled off over the horizon two years ago. Luckily, the rest is sharp and smart enough to make sure the series closes with a reasonable amount of agenda-questioning wallop.