LONDON (Reuters) - British satirical puppet show "Spitting Image" returns this autumn, caricaturing a new generation of public figures to rival past stalwarts from Margaret Thatcher to Ronald Reagan.

You want to make your Gen X friends feel really old? Tell them it’s 40 years since the first episode of Spitting Image. Then watch them go misty-eyed for ‘The Chicken Song’. As soon as it launched in ...

Former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher was portrayed as a bullying, tyrant in Spitting Image. United Archives GmbH/Alamy Stock Photo Spitting Image, first broadcast in February 1984, is famed ...

Margaret Thatcher wore a man's suit and smoked a cigar, Ronald Reagan was a liability who came close to causing nuclear war while Queen Elizabeth II's mother slugged from a half-empty gin bottle. The ...