The Daily Mail Song

dananddanfilms · 2.7M views · 2010-03-27 · 2:47

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Overview

A comedy song by Dan and Dan that summarizes the British newspaper The Daily Mail using only its headlines. It satirizes the paper's habit of claiming everything causes or cures cancer.

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Used as a running joke or satirical shorthand whenever the Daily Mail is cited or criticized.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2010–2021

Topics

Satire & parody Media, journalism & propaganda

What people said

jason0597 · 2021-04 · Recommendation
>Relevant: [VIDEO] Ahhh this takes me back. What an amazing video. Made 11 years ago and it's just as accurate as it was back then. Honestly? Fuck the Daily Mail. Also The S*n, Daily Express, etc.
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simonsarris · 2011-10 · Recommendation
I hate to post trite things on HN but if you haven't heard of the Daily Mail there is a good (and humorous) summary of the paper made into a song using only their headlines: [VIDEO]
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mavhc · 2021-07 · Joke / meme
You can pick between multiple headlines: "Hurrah for the Blackshirts", "At last a gay gene has been found so we can abort gay babies", and then there's [VIDEO]
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Video by dananddanfilms, played through YouTube.

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