Bremner, Bird And Fortune: The Daily Wind Up. Image shows from L to R: John Bird, Rory Bremner, John Fortune. Image credit: Vera Productions.

Bremner, Bird And Fortune: The Daily Wind Up

Rory Bremner, John Bird and John Fortune return in the three days leading up to the General Election with daily satirical specials

AKA:
Bremner, Bird & Fortune - The Daily Election Show; The Daily Rory Election Show
Genre:
Satire
Broadcast:
2010  (More4)
Episodes:
3 (1 series)
Starring:
Rory Bremner, John Bird, John Fortune
Writers:
Rory Bremner, John Bird, John Fortune, Geoff Atkinson, John Langdon, Andy Zaltzman
Production:
Vera Productions

Rory Bremner and team returned in the days leading up to the General Election 2010 with daily specials, recorded on the day of transmission. The satirical comics gave their own cutting, comic take on the election as it built to its climax.

The episodes included up-to-the-minute monologues, interviews, and various pranks and stunts, the ultimate aim of which was to deliver an up-to-date debunk of the Cameron-Brown-Clegg final showdown as it happened. Bremner provided analysis and a running commentary, aided by John Bird, John Fortune and a host of special guests.

There was a cast of hundreds (well, Rory in lots of different disguises), as well as 'pass-notes' that offered a superhighway bypass around the usually dry political commentary and stuffy debate.

Our Review: With Bremner, Bird and Fortune you know what you get - and this was very much in the same vein as their previous series, including, for example, a dinner party sketch.

The highlight of the three episodes (perhaps a tad long at an hour each) was when Rory make himself up as various politicians and went on the campaign trail to meet the general public. Watching 'Gordon Brown' pester a local Labour campaign headquarters was pretty amusing.