10 Incredible Comedy Movie Details You Definitely Missed
1. The Political Reflection - Don’t Look Up
Adam McKay's apocalyptic comedy Don't Look Up is an inherently political movie that criticises every part of the spectrum without telling you which. Republican, Democrat, right-wing, left-wing, liberal, conservative; they are all alluded to but never mentioned specifically. However, if you look down rather than up, you can catch at least one political leaning.
The Daily Rip is a news channel so obsessed with "keeping the news light" that they completely gloss over the impending apocalypse in favour of pleasing their viewers. It's unclear what way they swing on the political spectrum, but if you spy a reflection, you can figure it out.
On the glass table countertop where the interviews take place is a collection of mugs featuring the show's logo. They all read "the daily rip" in lower case, which spells out an interesting word when you look at the reflection in the glass, "lib". This all but confirms that The Daily Rip is a take on liberal media.
The decision not to capitalise the word "rip" was clearly a deliberate choice by McKay to slide this cheeky reference in. Oh how sneaky.