Here's an amazing episode of a British comedy program from 1997 called
Brass Eye, devoted to the topic of "Drugs." It's set in the style of a shrill nightly newscast, and the satire is screamingly funny - from the institute where kids are deliberately dosed for years in order to make sure they're bored of drugs by the time they're adults, to the frenzied spread of a drug called "cake" that is, essentially, urinal cakes, the pitch of this comedy is intensely delicious. Upright Citizens Brigade would eventually do something very similar with their second season episode "Supercool," showing America in the grip of a pixie stick addiction, but the
Brass Eye take on the concept is sharper, meaner, and much more crazed and over the top. (Sadly,
Brass Eye was apparently yanked when they attempted to satirize society's response to pedophilia - oops!)
Via
MilkandCookies.
