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Has Spitting Image ever been funny?

It's astonishing that puppets full of such satirical promise should be so unfailingly and relentlessly let down by the lazy script

Even Spitting Image's hot take on Prince Charles missing the target. Photo: ITV 
issue 31 October 2020

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