Press clippings

How the Spitting Image puppets were made

"It was always a two-part, collaborative process: Peter Fluck would do the form and Roger Law the finishing - doing the final touches and the expressions"

Jade Angeles Fitton, The Fence, 10th June 2022

Spitting Image stage show in 2022

The Spitting Image puppets will tread the boards of London's West End in 2022.

Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 20th December 2021

Roger Law complains he's 'too f***ing old' for backlash

"I used to love the adrenaline rush but I'm getting a bit too f***ing old for it," laughs 80-year-old co-creator Roger Law, chatting to just days before the show's new series is due to begin.

Jill Robinson, The Sun, 11th September 2021

Spitting Image: Lampooning with latex

The team behind BritBox's reboot of Spitting Image explains how to make satire work for millennials.

Royal Television Society, 1st September 2021

Spitting Image forced to tone down gags

Creator Roger Law says he may have to curb some of its edgier elements to pacify the modern woke brigade.

Rod McPhee, The Sun, 28th July 2021

Roger Law livid at NBC America for axing Spitting Image

Livid Spitting Image boss Roger Law has taken a swipe at 'superficial, gun-wielding Americans' as the comedy is axed by NBC after one series.

Jill Robinson, The Sun, 27th October 2020

Roger Law on bringing Spitting Image to BritBox

"What's going on, it's just terrifying when you stop to think about it," says Roger Law, one half of the original creative pair that made Spitting Image the benchmark for wrecking-ball satire in the 1980s and 90s. "I suppose that's the reason I wanted to go back to it. The time is definitely right."

Benji Wilson, Radio Times, 3rd October 2020

Review: Spitting Image, Britbox

The return of Spitting Image is an interesting one. Much has been made of how the divided society we live in now is similar to the one in the 1980s when this first aired. But even if that is the same, and I'm not sure it is, comedy has changed. Well, at least the delivery of comedy has changed.

Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 3rd October 2020

Roger Law regrets 'hurtful' Janet Street-Porter puppet

Spitting Image's creator revealed his regret over a 'hurtful' puppet of Loose Women presenter Janet Street-Porter that 'went a little too far'.

Jill Robinson, The Sun, 1st October 2020

Spitting Image creator hits back at racism complaints

ITV bosses recently had a "curious meeting" with the shows creators to discuss how best to represent black characters, in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement. But Roger is not having any of the criticism that its past portrayals of figures such as Kanye West or Beyoncé were offensive.

Shannon Power, The Sun, 29th September 2020

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