HIGNFY new series

I don't usually enjoy it very much when politicians are on, but it was pretty good. I find Miles Jupp's laugh very infectious, so that probably helped.

I didn’t find those jokes funny, but there was also a bit of a bad response from the audience as well. AA did look a bit taken aback I thought.

New series starts on Friday, David Tennant is the first host 

What is 'right-wing humour'?

There is also Simon Evans but he hates the label and his comedy is far from being political in any sense anyway, despite his own political leanings. He's more like Kenny Everett, in that respect, in that being conservative and a supporter of the Conservatives, doesn't make him a "right-wing" anything. Geoff Norcott is exceptional too because he actually makes fun of his Conservative leanings in his comedy and is able to call out the government on their failings...he is not blind, and actually makes that into comedy, especially in his appearances on The Mash Report and deadpanning Nish in a similar way that Rachel Parris does, but from a different direction.

Here's the thing. Go back five years and this was less of a thing. Less divisive. Cameron, Osborne, et al, got a beating, so to speak, in comedy because of who they were, and where they came from, and how that influenced the politicians they became, and the same happened with Milliband, and to some extent with Corbyn, and it has waxed and waned that way for a long time. In the same way there's no real "left-wing" bias in the BBC there's no particular "left wing" bias in comedy. A lazy description, for both, might be a (small l) liberal bias but that prods a whole nest of vipers about what liberal means and where else it leads.

What's happening now is the likes of MPs such as Ben Bradley and Andrea Jenkyns, along with actual right wing cheerleaders in the Daily Mail and Telegraph, bitterly whining and complaining that the government - their government - are having a mirror held up to their lying, incompetence, racism, and general destructive behaviour towards the UK. It's the culture war they crave and now they have "their man" at the top of the BBC they want to push harder for more "right wing" comedy when, in reality, there's no such thing...and, no, jokes starting with "take my wife..." or "there's a black fella that lives down the road from me..." is not right-wing comedy, it's just gross.