Comments on: Thanks for the laugh, chaps: you prove that satire is best done by insiders, which is why the total chavs at Zoo/Super One just can’t get it right

By: Peter F

Peter F — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 17:19:10 +0000

The irony. PLU laugh at this. Zoo want to be this.

By: L.Gatt

L.Gatt — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 01:40:44 +0000

What’s glic?

[Daphne – Glicine (white wine made by the Sicilian producer Corvo).]

By: David S

David S — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 23:31:40 +0000

Matthew Smith is hilarious

By: Grezz

Grezz — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 23:04:16 +0000

In reply to spa. Love the reference to Cyrus Engerer.

By: Joseph Caruana

Joseph Caruana — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 22:29:19 +0000

On the other hand, Zoo/Super One are good at portraying their own kind of people: http://youtu.be/zMHaoiCEB-g.

By: Harry Purdie

Harry Purdie — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 22:24:56 +0000

Credible sources have informed me that Alfred Sant has hired Paula Broadwell to write his biography.

By: H.P. Baxxter

H.P. Baxxter — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 22:11:09 +0000

In reply to Ian. The people at Zoo look like survivors from the Razor Blade Apocalypse. I mean I know the "designer stubble" look is in, but really.

By: Karmela

Karmela — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 20:58:40 +0000

Funny -It takes me back to my young and 6th form days where we could relax and be ourselves. Until I learnt that in the real world you’ll be labelled as kiesha, first at university and then in the workplace.

And Glic and ‘pv’ so very-me-type contortions. PV is past my age but Can’t wait to practise ‘glic’ on hubby and lunches with bfs – ‘need to stock up on glic for the boat ‘and ‘ pass the glic please .’ Love it! Brilliant satire!

By: Ian

Ian — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 19:00:13 +0000

In reply to observer.

Observer, this video makes fun of how a small part of the population speak – and it’s by those people themselves.

That’s why it’s so funny.

The literal translations, the ‘likes’, the exaggerated ‘ayys’ and the occasional Maltese word thrown in.

Obviously, not all private-school educated people speak like this, but there are those who do and it’s fun to point it out in this satirical manner. The people at Zoo can’t do this because, well, they can’t.

They’re not in on it.

By: observer

observer — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 18:24:23 +0000

Frankly, I can’t manage to make either tails or heads of the thing. Looks like ‘mittelklassi’ to me. One thing that struck out like a sore thumb, however, is the characters’ drinking wine – and white at that – out of blue coloured chalices.

[Daphne – Why ‘blue-coloured’? It’s sufficient to say they’re blue. I had absolutely no problem making head of tail of this, because it’s not an alien culture to me as it might be to you.

Definitely not mittelklass. Mittilkless is what Zoo spoofs on Super One, thinking it’s these kind of people.]