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1979: Immigration

This is hardly a laughing matter. This desk bound functionary is quoting from (and adding to) the inscription at the Statue of Liberty in New York. Are we to assume that he is speaking ironically and intends to impose the strict letter of the law in deciding who is, and who is not, allowed sanctuary in the U S of A? Is he capable of bending the rules in order to make his speech a true account of his intention? However we look at this it does not look at all funny.


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Perhaps they need to print a copy of that on Trump's wall?
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1975: A minority opinion

This whole scene is surely satirical. The trendy TV programme and the trendy viewer (and family) alert us to the absurd pretention of calling Beatlemania in such grandiloquent terms. The people are portrayed in unnatural (and presumably trendy) shapes.


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1980: Another grim story

Two vultures are looking at a series of severed heads attached to poles in the ground. This genre is known as ‘gallows humour’ and marks a serious change to the mainstream of Punch jokes.


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1980: Blatant corruption

Punch’s days were numbered by 1980. This cartoon strikes me as a desperate attempt to make a come back by attacking some sacred cows. Scroggins is the man on the left. The inspector is in the middle. The man on the right looks to me like a barrister. (Surely not the magistrate or the judge!) How times had changed by the time Punch ceased publication.


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1983: Exception to the norm

I sense that this joke is ironic. The idea is that Deborah is expected to ignore her domestic interests because of a passionate support for the campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Here it is the old, not the new norm, that appears to be dominant although we are meant to think the opposite was the case.


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1980: More Rodin

Larry is again using Rodin as a base for his joke. He specialised in middle aged men jokes – they all looked like the two here.


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1980: More Rodin

Larry is again using Rodin as a base for his joke. He specialised in middle aged men jokes – they all looked like the two here.
Wot? No socks?
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1980: Threats in Suburbia

The message being read aloud reads as follows:

We have got your gnome and unless you trim your side of the hedge by Sunday.

Life in the suburbs is seldom as violent as this...


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1980: Threats in Suburbia

The message being read aloud reads as follows:

We have got your gnome and unless you trim your side of the hedge by Sunday.

Life in the suburbs is seldom as violent as this...
You can't see the last part of that message on the cartoon, even when you enlarge it.
Is it possible that the text was printed below the cartoon?
 
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