what some of the people comment on this series do not seem to understand be that this be not a sketch show . the fact that none of the character be particularly memorable and the fact that the news story be not particularly surreal and the fact that each channel start to feel repetitive even before the end of the episode be all deliberate . a with people like u and john morton be able to avoid focus on the superficial humour ( the joke ) at the expense of the deep humour ( satire ) . and that be all there . the bad grammar and the lack of scientific knowledge and basic research of the average journalist and the milking of non event to fill hour of airtime and the patronise xenophobia of some u network and the obsession with live coverage for the sake of it and the overly dramatic music and the distortion of fact so the reporter can end his story with a witty catchphrase or cliché . it all there . there be also plenty of joke and nonsense and but i suspect most of those be just there so you would not mistake the show for a real news network . it their way of say unlike the real news network and we be still sane enough to realise that this whole thing be ludicrous . some of the reference will only make sense to people work in the field and but anyone who have spend 10 minute zap between different news network will be able to relate . be warn and though represent there be no pause to let you laugh and no punchlines tell you when to laugh ( a lot of people can not seem to understand humour without the latter ) . if you laugh and you miss something . in fact and even if you do not laugh and it hard not to miss something ( another obvious reference to the information overload or noise in modern news broadcast ) . to be watch with a progressively widening mental grin .