Brass Eye was a brilliant TV show satirizing the news. Hard to believe season 1 was 1997. Totally called so much about media crazed panics.
CW - All the shows are truely about the subjects listed and can go past edgelord.
I can’t get any of the invidious links to work so here is all the Brass Eyes on daily motion, which hopefully work OK:
Season 2 only has 1 episode because it got their asses CANCELLED.
One thing you have to understand about all the Brass Eye episodes is that not everyone involved knows they are on a comedy show. All the people doing PSA-type bits are UK celebs and their participation is totally in earnest. There are multiple MPs as well as media people who are tricked into advocating totally crazy shit. The absolute best ep for this is Drugs. It shows the lack of vetting famous people do when they are asked to lend support to something. The deceit was not intricate and many clues were intentionally left to allow the people to realize it was a scam. For example in the Drugs episode they all parrot that the new drug is from Czechoslovakia even though that country hadn’t existed for a while at the time. Also Chris Morris didn’t hide the fact it was his TV show and he was known to do these kinds of shows previously.
They got this guy to seriously say pedophiles are genetically crabs and then symbolically hammer a nail through a crab to fight child sex abuse
Loosing an arm wrestle to someone with “good AIDS” caught through a blood transfusion
But turned out he had Bad Gay AIDS oops