The Odd Couple: A case study of gaslighting?

This podcast summarises a case study of the working relation of a broadcasting team and in particular of its two lead broadcasters whose names I have described as Kenneth and Barbie. 
Their story reminds me of examples of teams from real life and fiction, including the one made famous in the film The Odd Couple, brilliantly played by Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau.

Another humorist and actor Steve Cooghan mocked the morning chat show displays of harmonious teamwork,  in his TV series Mid-Morning Matters. He portrayed his fictional persona Alan  Partridge as insensitive male, unaware of the  crushing impact is he having on all around him. This piece of comedy brilliance works partly because of its dark undertones. 

I became increasingly reminded the Cooghan treatment in the behaviour of a pair of real-life broadcasters sharing a morning programme of news, entertainment, guests and phone-in calls. So much so, that I began to see their developing relationship as a performance concealing those darker elements revealed in Cooghan’s fictional relationships ...

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