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Search complete. 10 mentions across 6 episodes found for "Punch".
Sep 29, 2026
Colm LiddyGUEST
But it was just as bad in America.
Colm LiddyGUEST
Again, you'd have your Punch magazine in England, which had kind of caricatures of what an Irishman looks like.
Colm LiddyGUEST
Yeah, they are sort of like
Alan MorrisseyHOST
Simeon-type Neanderthal characters.
Jonathan GoldbergGUEST
He is sort of conservative and he sort of doesn't like a lot what's going on, but he kind of goes neighborhood by neighborhood and really talks about it in a contemporary way.
Jonathan GoldbergGUEST
Also, if you read like Punch Magazine or Harper's, you get a different understanding because you start to see also just the amount of context that we lose from everything and the way of like what was going on in society and pop culture of the time that is really outside of us.
Jonathan GoldbergGUEST
So you'll see references to things and you'll have no idea like certain books that were really popular that she probably would have read that she was referencing.
Jonathan GoldbergGUEST
Even the idea of Demosthenes, which sounds so random, was sort of having a moment at the time because Demosthenes, the philosopher, is most famous for attacking Philip, the father of Alexander, and he was known for being anti-monarchist, basically, and being sort of a democratic figure.
David QuantickGUEST
Um, they actually did a thing.
David QuantickGUEST
Somebody found all the articles in Punch magazine from the '40s and put them all together, sort of the early Molesworth, the pre-fame Molesworth.
Mike Fenton StevensHOST
Right.
David QuantickGUEST
And in it, there's a scene where he has to go and play with a girl, and the girl is called Deborah Parkinson, and I just thought, "What a great name."
OliviaHOST
Mm-hmm.
OliviaHOST
In 1906 he joined the staff of Punch magazine, which was, like, a humorous magazine at the time.
OliviaHOST
They would do poems and, um, funny essays and stuff, so he was always into humor-
MandaHOST
Mm-hmm
OliviaHOST
He served just briefly in France, uh, but then he got ill, and he was discharged in 1919.
MandaHOST
Mm-hmm.
OliviaHOST
And so that was it for his job at Punch, so then he decided he was gonna be a playwright, and he was...
OliviaHOST
He wrote, like, comedies, and they were pretty successful.
Titus O'ReilyHOST
He runs a business out of Masonic Hall and suddenly McIntosh starts to straighten out his catering company a bit.
Titus O'ReilyHOST
Punch Magazine says that he dealt with a very rough clientele and that was how McIntosh made his mark.
Titus O'ReilyHOST
He appeared as a handler of men.
Titus O'ReilyHOST
His method was summary.
Tyrell Cameron EskelsonHOST
So how did you find the money to go on this trip? What happened was that there was a
Mark AbleyGUEST
magazine in Britain called Punch, a kind of... not particularly good, but then middle-class humor magazine.
Mark AbleyGUEST
You know, perhaps at one stage in its heyday, maybe in the 20s and 30s, had been some sort of rough equivalent of New Yorker up to a point.
Mark AbleyGUEST
But whereas the New Yorker lasted and became a very distinguished magazine with cartoons and occasional humorous pieces, Punch eventually did not last.
Mark AbleyGUEST
But Punch was still around in 1978, and it offered a national student humor competition with the first price of 500 pounds.
Mark AbleyGUEST
And the pound was worth more in those days, so that was getting towards 1,500 bucks, I guess.
Mark AbleyGUEST
And so I said to Claire, well, I'll enter that, you know, and if I win, I'll go to Asia with you.
Tyrell Cameron EskelsonHOST
But maybe