The Day Today Pool Supervisor Keith Mandemant from TV News Show 'The Day Today'

"The Day Today" was a satirical news parody television show that aired on the BBC in the early 1990s. Created by Armando Iannucci and Chris Morris, the show parodied contemporary news programs with absurd and exaggerated humor. It featured a mix of fake news reports, mockumentaries, and surreal sketches, all delivered with a deadpan style.

One of the memorable segments from "The Day Today" is "The Swimming Pool" comedy clip. This sketch starred a character named Keith Mandamant, portrayed by Steve Coogan, who played the role of a pool safety officer. In the sketch, Mandamant is depicted as an overly serious and authoritarian figure, obsessed with enforcing the most trivial and absurd pool safety regulations. He delivers his instructions with exaggerated seriousness, often using complex and nonsensical terminology.

The humor of "The Swimming Pool" sketch derives from the juxtaposition of mundane subject matter with the intense seriousness of Mandamant's character, as well as the absurdity of the safety regulations he enforces. The sketch satirizes bureaucratic inefficiency and the absurd lengths to which some officials go to enforce rules, highlighting the absurdity of modern life and the media's tendency to sensationalize even the most mundane topics.