I’m an independent filmmaker and puppeteer in Toronto, Canada who blogs about puppetry and film.
Part of Spitting Image's legacy is that it inspired a series of similar shows around the world. One of the most recent examples is ZA News, a web series that pokes fun at politics in South Africa, which has a strong tradition of political...
Every Bomb You Drop is probably the most famous of the Spitting Image musical parodies and was one of the most poingent segments that the show ever produced....
The Margaret Thatcher puppet was undoubtedly one of the biggest stars of Spitting Image and as a deeply conservative Prime Minister, one of the show's favourite targets. This is one of the show's best Margaret Thatcher...
Nothing was sacred to Spitting Image, least of all religion. My God Is Bigger Than Your God was probably one of the show's most pitch perfect musical satires and it is just as relevant today as the day it was...
It's Todd the Puppet Master. What else is there to...
I'm not sure why I've never heard of this until now, but apparently the producers of the popular 1950s Superman TV series were trying to figure out how to extend their lucrative franchise and hit upon the idea of launching a spin-off/spoof called The Adventures of Superpup that featured actors in dog suits and a...
Ballography is a web series on Gameslam.com that's produced by Adam and David Rudman's Spiffy Pictures. The series is a spoof of Biography, with each episode a famous baseball from MLB history ranting about their glory....
Puppet shows in general - and Mister Rogers in particular - get violently sent-up in this music video for Mastodon's...
Sesame Street sends up the much-maligned Broadway musical Spiderman: Turn off the Dark....
This is a hilarious little short directed by UK director and animatronics specialist John...
Juicy Fruit's Serenading Unicorn is still...
Mario Plush Forever is a relatively new series on YouTube that's very simple, but also very well...