Challenge Accepted

In an excellent paywalled article about comedy great David McPhail he said:

[…] it would’ve been tough for him to satirise current prime minister Jacinda Ardern.

“Up until now, she hasn’t made any mistakes and you don’t do a whole sketch show about Mother Teresa, it just doesn’t work,” he says.

“So you have to wait until, rather unfortunately, the Prime Minister starts tripping up as she is starting to do now and doing things that are silly, or funny in itself.”

NZ Herald

I say, “challenge accepted“. It is not as if there hasn’t already been some excellent satirical material on the PM produced already.

Remember this?

Jacinda Ardern plays Mary Poppins from AndyNZ on Vimeo.

She also made another appearance as Mary Poppins on the BBC comedy sketch show Spitting Image to celebrate her “landslide” election victory by smoking marijuana. 

The skit includes the Prime Minister’s talking sheep umbrella.

Sheep umbrella:

“I guess you feel pretty proud of yourself after winning a landslide election in New Zealand.”

Jacinda Ardern:

“Practically perfect people expect to win by landslides!”

Sheep umbrella:

“Aren’t you even going to celebrate?”

Jacinda Ardern:

“Well, maybe I’ll do that thing I did just once when I was a kid,”

the Prime Minister puppet then takes a long drag on what appears to be a joint and then bursts into song.

Jacinda Ardern:

“Let’s get high as a kite / up to the gnarliest height,

“I said I only tried it once and I didn’t like it.” 

“Politicians never say / that they like the Mary Jane,”

“So let’s get high, high as a kite,”

Sheep Umbrella:

“She’s so stoned she thinks her umbrella is talking to her!”

With the help of Lady Wellington and a Deep Fake app on my phone I whipped up this little number on the same theme.

I think that there is plenty about Jacinda Ardern to satirise. Below is just a small selection of satirical images and political cartoons published on The BFD about her so far.

The BFD would love to be able to offer political satire in the style of McPhail and Gadsby and are well aware that there is a huge gap in the market for that kind of political content.

We welcome satirical ideas and scripts to suit a beer budget.

If you have always fancied writing political satire we would love to hear from you as we think that there is plenty of satirical material to be found in both the actions and inaction of our PM.

e-mail sb at the bfd.co.nz