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Beeb should hire Bouncy Rusty if it insists on outdoing satire with its
right-on weather recruiting

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role in Vietnam and Cambodia

Satire is a risky business. What may seem hilarious and far fetched can
fall flat when the joke is overtaken by events.

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scriptwriter could come up with.

American comedian Tom Lehrer said satire died in 1973, when the Nobel
Peace Prize was awarded to US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger – who
had masterminded the saturation bombing of Cambodia that killed

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Job done?: Tony Blair has stood down as Middle East peace envoy

Meanwhile, a story which would be any satirist’s dream was unfolding at
home.