Malcolm Tucker the character shared certain personality traits with Tucker, specifically “a certain acid wit... the attitude, the wisecracks and the energy... he can be edgy, volatile and dangerous". Malcolm Tucker Malcolm Tucker is the antihero of the BBC political satire, "The Thick of It", and is portrayed by Peter Capaldi. He is the Director of Communications for the Labour Party, in both Government and Opposition, acting as the Prime Minister's chief enforcer overseeing cabinet ministers. Tucker was originally a secondary character, with Chris Langham's Hugh Abbot as the protagonist being watched over by Tucker, but after Langham was fired from the
The Mash Report The Mash Report The Mash Report is a British comedy on BBC Two. It satirises the news and is hosted by Nish Kumar. First aired on 20 July 2017, it is a TV show spin-off of "The Daily Mash", a satirical website. The first series comprised ten episodes. The second series, of six episodes, started airing on 26 October 2018. Chortle regarded the series as a successful UK version of "The Onion". A segment, in the first show of the second half of the first series, was watched online more than 11 million times in two days (eventually reaching more