Lord Privy Seal (term)

In the British television industry, Lord Privy Seal is the practice of matching too literal imagery with every element of the accompanying spoken script. The origin is a TV comedy sketch in The Frost Report taking the practice to an extreme, which backed a "news report" mention of the Lord Privy Seal with images, in quick succession, of a lord, an outdoor toilet, and a seal balancing a ball on its nose.

Richard Dawkins mentioned the practice in his review of the film Expelled on his website.[1]

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