Cunk on Earth (BBC Documentary S1, E1-5; 2022) Creator: Charlie Brooker If you find the following joke particularly funny, you will enjoy Philomena Cunk and her caustic below-belt deadpan British comedy. FG asks X, “where have you been? ... haven't seen you in a while.” X replies, “Oh, I have just been to Amritsar.” “But why did you go there?” asks FG. “...it was just on my bucket list. I always wanted to go there,” said X. To which FG, with facial expressions a poker player would envy, blurted, “so now that you have fulfilled your bucket list, does that mean now you can happily kick the bucket?” Diane Morgan appears as the persona of Philomena Cunk, a clueless TV comperè who interviews high-level scientists and academicians in this mockumentary. In a nutshell, it narrates the evolution of mankind and civilization as they progress from cave dwellers to their current status as the most successful species on Earth. At the end of the five episodes, the viewers go off with the idea th...
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