It's wonderful that Chris Morris has returned to our screens creating the brilliant parody history doc, History of Now: The Story of the Noughties. With a nosebleed of flashy graphics which interrupt the flow of the talking heads with a splat of neon jargon wobbling over the shoulder of a few dodgy professors and pundits, this is a great spoof of BBC3 documentaries and online web tutorials.
The obvious heir to The Day Today, this hilarious mockumentary series imagines a cultural doc directed by Nathan Barley, where the big issues of the decade are boiled down into meaningless soundbites about football, stag nights and the O2. Getting clueless celebs such as Andrew Marr and Will Self to earnestly contribute, as Paul Daniels and Noel Edmonds did to Brass Eye, made it look for all the world like a serious attempt to debate the history of the last decade, but the hilariously superficial angles the series has taken, debating such burning issues as second homes in Dubai, posh bakers and eastern European nannies, utterly undermines them.
Getting witless comedyslut Robert Webb to do his curlingly contemptuous and patronising narration added the final flourish to this outrageous spoof. His sneering, voice-of-cunt commentary was designed to tell us what we'd thought and how things were, but warped out of shape to such an outrageous extent that the last decade is rendered utterly unrecognisable, in the same way that government PR represents reality through a trail of surreal falsehoods and mangled statistics.
Cracking comedy start to the year, possibly a bit broad and unrealistic, but funny all the same, if cringingly embarrassing at times. Of course, there's no mention of Morris in the credits, and it's been trailed and put out as a completely straight doc, but we can all see it for what it is. Can't we?
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