Pushing.

It was the middle of the 80s and Mrs. Stacher was the prime minister here and she was very popular with the sort of working classes and things and not with the lefty middle classes like me.

Harry Enfield, one of England's best known comedians. He's talking about where he got the inspiration for his most famous character, a response to the impurious Margaret Thatcher with her bob and pearls who unleashed American-style capitalism on the UK.

We, the student hippies, we used to live on this counsellor's state in Hackney and we used to go to the local pub and all the local tradesmen and things.

We always had huge wards of money and they'd take it out because they thought we were squatters. We weren't actually squatters.

But we looked like squatters because we worked in television. So they get their big wards of money out and sort of flash it at the bar or anything.

Enfield hated Thatcher, hated what she represented. But the power I took was the power to reduce the power of government.

Enfield and his partner Paul Whitehouse dreamt up a character to embody Thatcher's England.

And it sort of just became this sort of thing really where we just go loads of money about everything. You know, well that's loads of money, loads of money that, loads of money that.

And then it became a sort of phenomenon.

His name was loads of money. He was a construction worker catapulted to sudden delirious wealth by the 80s building boom.

I got piles!

Pauja man!

He choose gum with his mouth open.

Whereas acid wash jeans, white trainers, a yellow and green nylon jacket with white sleeves, keys on his belt, drives a white convertible in the countryside, all performed with a kind of cheerful, unstoppable tastelessness.

I mean the politics, why all you need and all about politics is that Mrs. Badger has done a long one for the country but you wouldn't want to shag it.

I mean at the time everything was, you know, everyone was going Mrs. Thatcher this, Mrs. Thatcher that and you know sort of very obviously preaching to the converted.

So we sort of did it the other way which is just to go look at me, aren't I great, isn't money great, everything else is rubbish, only money is good.

My name is Malcolm Gladwell. You're listening to revisionist history where every week I revisit the forgotten and misunderstood.

In this week's episode, the final episode of our first season, I want to talk about satire, political satire.

We live in the golden age of satire. It's almost to the point where we seem to conduct as much of our political conversation through humor as to the normal media.

Remember Stephen Colbert at the 2006 White House correspondent, Stinner? In character as the conservative talk show host he was then playing on television, he stands up and gives a satirical toast to his quote unquote hero, President George W. Bush.

...