The World Leaders

Credit for this post needs to go to Kate who commented on my review of ITV 1’s Headcases with a link to World Leaders - an online show about world leaders living in a Big Brother style house.

World Leaders (tag line Bunch of Twats) reminds me a bit of Whack My Bush that saw Tony Blair follow George Bush and co on trips around the world.

The voices were amazing and it had the same biting humour once seen in Spitting Image but clearly missing from Headcases.

Well World Leaders takes a very similar irreverent approach to high politics and international diplomacy. One line in particular features George Bush yelling at Ahmadinajad (or Am a Dinner Jacket as Bush calls him) because he hasn’t done the hoovering.

George Bush comes in and fumes about the cleaning rota saying: “first of the month, evil bearded Iranian dictator do the hoovering”.

Ahmadinajad follows this up by claiming he works to a different calendar that skips the first day of the month and that “I refuse touch machine named after American imperialist named J Edgar Hoover who dresses up as woman and touches rent boys”.

The two world leaders than start fighting followed by Tony Blair coming into the room through doors surrounded by a stream of white light looking all mesianic and proffering words of wisdom.

He speaks to Gordon Brown who tells him to fuck off.

The First Post houses the videos and includes a qoute from each of the leaders under their image. George Bush says “What do you mean Negotiate?”, Putin says “I will not sing imperialist shit”, Merkel says “Testicles”, Ahmadinejad says “Most shit story”, Sarkozy asks “maybe let me see your knickers” and Brown says “You’re a big titted liar”.

There are currently six episodes of about three minutes each on The First Post with a few more clips available through the World Leaders site itself.

Here are a couple of videos people have posted to You Tube and you can view stills on the World Leaders Flickr Stream.

World Leaders seems to have been around for a couple of years now - it completely passed me by for some reason - but fortunately the wonders of the web means it’s still all there to see.

It’s great to know that real biting surreal satire is alive and well and online. God bless the World Wide Web and all who sail in her.

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