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Sep 1, 2020 8 tweets 2 min read Read on X
I’d love to know who Tim Davie’s top 3 right wing comedians were

@bbccomedy
Comedians do tend to skew left wing, but that’s only because it’s hard to make money at others expense on the comedy circuit.
However I’d also argue that a comedians job (like a journalist) is to hold truth to power. As such it’s inevitable that they’ll be biased against whoever is in power at the time. It just so happens that we’ve had a right wing government for a long time now.
When labour were in power, UK comedy panels shows regularly targeted Blair, Brown etc. So the best way to remove anti-Tory bias in BBC comedy is to elect a labour government!
It really is impressive how the right has simultaneously waged a culture war against the BBC, infiltrated the BBC and claimed to be the victims of BBC bias at the same time.
I suspect all the folks tweeting about left-wing bias and the fact that #HIGNFY hasn't been funny for years, are remembering back to 1997-2010 when Labour were in power and the jokes were directed at them.
Anyway I can't wait to see a bunch of old fashioned right wing "comedians" try and navigate what's culturally acceptable these days.

Interesting article from Stewart Lee on the lack of Right Wing stand-ups.

stewartlee.co.uk/written_for_mo…

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