# 8 attempts at chugger satire

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2014/01/13/dont-give-day-job-attempts-chugger-satire/
- Published: 2014-01-13T13:03:19+00:00
- Author: Guest Blogger

S**treet fundraisers attract ire via just about every medium possible. There are
torrents of rage on Twitter and discussion groups, abusive comments on news stories
and blogs, and dedicated anti-chugger groups on social networking sites (which hardly
ever seem to persist beyond the initial burst of communal outrage).**

Radio phone-ins about charities wouldn’t be complete without a call from Mr Angry
from [INSERT TOWN NAME], decrying the fact chuggers have rendered walking down his
local high street a worse experience than getting the groceries in Aleppo.

You can even find this vehemence on YouTube, where some pavement crusaders without
much else to do spend their Saturday afternoons stalking chuggers with their mobile
phones hoping to catch one of them break the [PFRA](http://www.pfra.org.uk)’s three-
step rule.

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And yet this vitriol rarely translates into any kind of humour or satire. There 
have been a number of threats to make a sitcom about chuggers, but they have so 
far come to nothing. Whenever one off sketches have appeared on YouTube or Vimeo,
they are quite often just not very good.

So UK Fundraising presents a run down of all the chugger sketches we can find, along
with our star rating.
The irony in all this is that people demean street fundraisers
as the stereotype failed actor. Many people producing these chugger satires are 
already failed actors; they just haven’t realised it yet.

## Xtreme Productions – ‘Chuggers’

[Video no longer available – 21 July 2021]

Sub-Pythonesque homage that’s far, far too long without a single giggle. Still,
probably allowed the writer/director to get something off his chest. Bet you can’t
get through the entire 7’36”.

**Rating: 1/10**

 

## Vibe Gum – ‘Chuggers’

[Video no longer available – 21 July 2021]

Two miserable gits try desperately to come over as a cross between Charlie Brooker
and Pete and Dud with their forced faux outrage against everyone they encounter 
on the street, from ‘god-botherers’ to market researchers, but of course with special
ire reserved for chuggers.

**Rating: 2/10**

 

## Hot Gulp – ‘Chugger’

A ‘chugger’ really is a charity mugger.

**Rating 4/10**

 

## Chuggertube – ‘Chuggers – the sitcom’

Five webisodes of a prospective sitcom – you can view them all at their [website](http://www.chugger.tv/)–
that never got off the ground but the writers clearly new what they were talking
about. Webisode 3 is even filmed in a pub where real live street fundraisers do 
actually hang out after their shifts. Had potential.

**Rating 6/10**

 

## Laurence Owen – ‘A moment of your time’

Though the star of this music video is a street fundraiser in the guise of Clint
Eastwood, the song is actually an attack ‘cowardly’ city types who consume their
wealth put walk past fundraisers with disdain.

**Rating 8/10**

 

## Scallywaga – ‘Charity Collections Techniques’

CBBC sketch show takes new fundraisers through their approach techniques. Would 
have got an extra star apart from flagrant breaching of PFRA’s three-step rule –
how irresponsible for something that purports to be a training video

**Rating 8/10**

 

## ActionAid – ‘Drive Aid’

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n3uD5iSQP0

ActionAid sends spoof fundraisers on to the street to make a point about biofuels.
Notice how the three step rule is again exceeded by a factor of 30.

**Rating 8/10**

 

## Lee Nelson’s Well Funny People – ‘Five minutes for the badgers’

If you want something done properly, you have to call in a professional. Note to
all the aspirtant writers/directors: it’s only 1’09” long.

**Rating: 10/10**

“Chuck Kerr”