One of the best tv shows ever made. Total genius.

Chris Morris shows are just six episodes each. After this there's another news parody called Brass Eye, which IMO is even better. Some people in these shows are unkown outside of Britain, but it doesn't really matter.

Chris Morris changed how we view news for ever

One of my favourite shows of all time. I think you'll enjoy it's absurdity. Glad your tackling whole episodes.

One of Chris Morris creations, the use of language is... amazing, surreal anti-comedy, awkward pauses. The scariest thing about this is that as time goes on, the real news looks more like it. Brass Eye is loosely a sequel and went really deep into mocking the tabloid mindset and caused a fair degree of upset over here 🤣🤣🤣

Please please please do them all. There are some of the absolute best sketches I've ever seen on The Day Today. You will love it.

The Day Today is brilliant but you must watch Brass Eye after this, same writers (Chris Morris who is the presenter) it's legendary 👌 Morris is a genius

British humour at its best. Only Canadians have a chance of understanding.

30 years ago this was a parody but now all news programmes actually do look like this.

It was Steve Coogan aka Alan Partridge in the prison scene. He plays multiple characters in The Day Today including Alan Partridge.

It's a heavy going show but ultimately rewarding. Jam is another great show from the same writers around the same time.

30 years since I saw this show as a teenager and it's still bloody brilliant

A dimension you won't get is that Chris Morris's anchorman was a pastiche of Jeremy Paxman, the BBC's "rottweiler" interviewer of the time.

Fantastic, I remember this show and Brass Eye is another you need to see, all un pc and so much fun.

The Day Today was way ahead of its time.

"Alan Partridge - Scissored Isle" is a good laugh

The presenter, Chris Morris, who produced and directed this show, I had the privilege of meeting him when working as an extra on a film set... super duper nice guy..

The Day Today/Brasseye are absolute classics!🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

I missed this series, so first time seeing this. Crying with laughter. I watched Brass Eye which featured many unwitting famous people encouraged to talk "nonce sense".

What you may not get is that the London Jam Festival bit starting at 5:25 is a fairly spot on parody of BBC news presenter Jeremy Paxman’s interviewing style.

I remember buying this on cassette tape for the car, brilliant.

I had completely forgotten about this series, thanks for reminding me about it :)

Some really great brains at the peak of their vibrant youthful creativity... It CHANGED British comedy! And it's aged suprisingly well... (unlike a lot of the cast)

YAY! One of my favourite!! Keep going there's some absolute gems coming up!

Yeah we brits love a bit of Brass Eye 👌

Like most British shows, they start out good on an idea but only get much, much funnier.

A good percentage of the people involved are real ( ie members of the public and politicians ), so the show blurs the line between reality and fiction. A great show.

Yeas guys,do some more of these classic episodes..loved this when it first came out in 1995.

I LOVE Chris Morris. The Day Today was groundbreaking. You should check out Brass Eye after this, but most of all, for his full genius and for the darkest comedy of all time, watch JAM.

This show was iconic. Even though it's 30 yrs old it's still fresh.

Chris Morris. Genius. We need you now more than ever.

There’s six episodes. Well worth a watch. A lot of British references but as you mentioned at the end it’s a satire of how media frames things. This show is groundbreaking and it took North America a decade to catch up to its brilliance and sophistication. The Onion KZfaq channel started doing Americanised sketches very similar to this show but 15 yrs later.

This is 100% how we do things in the UK.

"At his mother's pleasure". HMP stands for "Her Majesty's Prison". "Her Majesty's Pleasure" is used as a euphemism for doing time.

This show is nearly 30 years old. I feel old.

You might like "look around you" especially the petticoat 2000 - the computer for women

Loved this show so much

1994, I was around my girlfriends place and the first of the short episodes came on. At the end of it, she looked at me and asked if what she had just seen was real.

All the programs in the "Attitudes Night" segment are parodies of actual things. E.g. the man with the groupie is a spoof of politician Christopher Mayhew, who was filmed taking mescaline for a documentary.

20:55 Back in the day here in the UK, there was a lunchtime TV show that included a business & markets segment. I can only assume it was aimed at people on their lunch break who worked in the City of London. To the average person, it was complete gobbledegook. The stream of utter nonsense that business corespondent Collaterlie Sisters spouts is a spot-on satire of that show.

Thanks Guys. That was great and me and my mate Oliver(known as "Olly" ) would like MORE,please..

Brass eye (a sort of sequel to The day today ) once did a feature on a supposed new drug 'CAKE' (which didn't actually exist) they got a whole group of celebritys to do pieces condeming CAKE (which didn't actually exist remeber). Edit found a YT clip - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jsihZs6Ul5-4nZs.html

Wait until you see brass eye!

23:44 is the first time I've seen someone get jump-scared by a comedy show 😂 Lucy jumping made me jump.

That was the first televised appearance of Alan Partridge, I belive.

26:44 A word that means different things in UK English and US English. Rubbers are Erasers to you guys, not the other thing...

Told you it was brilliant. "Brasseye" also.

The radio show “On the Hour” was even funnier

It was Alan Partridge.

Collaterlie Sisters invokes a pavlovian response in me to this day. I just have to think of the name and I laugh out loud. The Day today, was genius.

Let the credits run, there are jokes in there too.

Made long before Britan had real "news" as we do today, golden days of comedy too.

I've been waiting for someone to react to this for so long! Subscribed 😄

Hysterical!!! Thank you

Peter, you've lost the news!

Yay , Day Today was awesome

3:30 American TV shows used to look weird on European TVs because of the differences in frame rate between NSTC and PAL/SECAM. It's really amazing that they went to the effort of finding an American TV camera to emulate the effect.

I must have been overseas when this aired, as I don't remember it at all. Brilliant!

Chris Morris is what everyone pretends Sacha Baron Cohen is …

The humour is very similar to The Onion type stuff ... scarily similar 😂

T*wt! that was a liquid post😁Greatpost, keep 'em coming

There were some people who saw The Day Today and thought it was a genuine news programme.

You should also checkout "Brass Eye" it's basically the same show. It was originally planned as a spin-off from The Day Today but it was passed on by the BBC, so Channel 4 took it over

Brass Eye (1997) was a much better series IMO. A perfected version of this. The peak of Chris Morris. The Day Today did have some classic moments though (the rapper Fur-Q springs to mind).

10:18 that head bang by Greg Louganis was a famous event at the 1988 Olympics. He recovered fully. But he kept secret at the time the fact that he was HIV+.

Oscar winning actress Olivia Colman can be seen in "Kiddystare" at 19:53.

You need to react to Chris Morris's 'Brass Eye'... Similar but different... and a whole new level of outrage...

Why did you cut the end off? Good to see you're doing this show, hope you follow with Brass Eye and then Jam. This is also a segue into Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge which is also a must watch.

You guys MUST react to Tony Baker animal whisperer.... You will love it and.... There are a zillion videos

Hilarious show. :D

It's a series which just gets better and better and then Brasseye is even better again and then comes Chris Morris's masterpiece, a show called 'Jam' which would be cancelled after about 30 seconds if it was shown on TV today, great to see you reacting to this!

Chris Morris. what a leg end. can't wait for you to see the 'special'.

yeah it was alan partridge

Coogan is brilliant in this. It's early Alan Partridge...But just as funny

Absolute top tier show!!!! This, then Brass Eye, and then on to Alan Partridge... The Day Today Bethlehem (the Xmas special) is definitely worth a watch too! Also the film "Four Lions"

A bunch of police cars, sirens blaring, lights flashing, turn up to deal with a noise complaint.

It's really old but it still looks spot on

an absolute satirical masterclass.

Bullying behind closed doors is an ongoing issue.

i thoroughly recommend you seek out the bbc complaints program that featured one of these episodes, and Chris Morris's response to the complaints.

Some news shows still have opening credits that are only a little bit toned down from these.

That WAS Alen Partridge!

Dave Gilmour (Pink Floyd) gave £30, ooo, ooo I believe to Crisis for the homeless. I don't believe he will like me saying that? Soho boy. Luv yer. ❤ 👍🙏

eVERONE believed the Elvis death because of the bog ruse

That was Alan Partridge (Steve Coogan)

It could be World War 3 but we still have the Jam Festival.

Love this series!

😀😄😆😂🤣 12 hours? I'm lucky to sleep that long over 2 nights. ✌️🤟🤘

Keep watching and then get into Brasseye. It's possibly the epitome of British humour xx

The bit where he does the headlines has been posted on social media with real recent news stories so much lately. The pseudo sequel Brass Eye is great too, a different kind of silly, a bit darker.

The last time the news made sense, before the satire became a template.

The shepherd sketch anticipated Tik Tok.

This is very much a parody of how the news was presented some 30 years ago. The use of on-screen graphics being very prominent during this time. Something that gets steady worse as the series continues. It's very cleverly written and executed to the point where, if you didn't know better, you might actually think it was the news. This was the first appearance of Alan Partridge. He's the sports commentator who knows next to nothing about sport and so, fills in with irrelevancies that are tangentially linked to the subject matter. Something that was perfected later on in his own series. This is dated, obviously, as it came out approximately 30 years ago, but there's still plenty that's relatable. Just the names have changed.

"I HATE Sebastian Coe!"

The joy of this period was the ability to latch the true to the surreal. It was possible to be cool watching this. Probably (although I wasn't around for it) as it was cool to watch Monty Python before it.

You need to check out Brass Eye.

Another satirical series from the '90s you ought to react to is 'TV Offal' - I think all the episodes can still be found on here.

Bitmap shades! Cool!

I would love to see the reactions of people who would actually believe it too be real.

Brass Eye, same sort of format with most of the same people but far better. Check it out guys.