Glenda Slagg
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Glenda Slagg is a fictional parodic
columnist in the satirical magazine Private Eye. She first appeared in the mid-1960s. Her writing style is a pastiche of several female columnists in British newspapers, notably Jean Rook
and Lynda Lee-Potter
: brash, vitriolic and inconsistent.
Glenda's column usually takes the form of several paragraphs lauding people in the news that fortnight, each followed by a paragraph deriding the people she has just praised. For example, she will begin "Hats off to Anne Robinson!", and follows the comment with "Anne Robinson? Aren'tchajustsickofher!" She finishes her column by listing, with heavy sexual innuendo
, the men in the news she finds attractive that week, often using a variation on her catchphrase "Crazy name, crazy guy!?!" She signs off with "Byeeeee!!!!".
Her characteristic style also includes overuse of exclamation mark
s and question mark
s, and saying "Geddit!!??!" whenever she makes a joke. She is often fired and rehired by "Ed" in the space of a paragraph.
Despite being fictional, Glenda Slagg has become an archetype in British journalism.
Parody
A parody , in current usage, is an imitative work created to mock, comment on, or trivialise an original work, its subject, author, style, or some other target, by means of humorous, satiric or ironic imitation...
columnist in the satirical magazine Private Eye. She first appeared in the mid-1960s. Her writing style is a pastiche of several female columnists in British newspapers, notably Jean Rook
Jean Rook
Jean Kathleen Rook was an English journalist dubbed The First Lady of Fleet Street for her regular opinion column in the Daily Express...
and Lynda Lee-Potter
Lynda Lee-Potter
Lynda Lee-Potter OBE was a columnist for the British newspaper the Daily Mail.-Early years:...
: brash, vitriolic and inconsistent.
Glenda's column usually takes the form of several paragraphs lauding people in the news that fortnight, each followed by a paragraph deriding the people she has just praised. For example, she will begin "Hats off to Anne Robinson!", and follows the comment with "Anne Robinson? Aren'tchajustsickofher!" She finishes her column by listing, with heavy sexual innuendo
Innuendo
An innuendo is a baseless invention of thoughts or ideas. It can also be a remark or question, typically disparaging , that works obliquely by allusion...
, the men in the news she finds attractive that week, often using a variation on her catchphrase "Crazy name, crazy guy!?!" She signs off with "Byeeeee!!!!".
Her characteristic style also includes overuse of exclamation mark
Exclamation mark
The exclamation mark, exclamation point, or bang, or "dembanger" is a punctuation mark usually used after an interjection or exclamation to indicate strong feelings or high volume , and often marks the end of a sentence. Example: “Watch out!” The character is encoded in Unicode at...
s and question mark
Question mark
The question mark , is a punctuation mark that replaces the full stop at the end of an interrogative sentence in English and many other languages. The question mark is not used for indirect questions...
s, and saying "Geddit!!??!" whenever she makes a joke. She is often fired and rehired by "Ed" in the space of a paragraph.
Despite being fictional, Glenda Slagg has become an archetype in British journalism.