Comedy in a Time of Compliance - The New Conservative

Comedy in a Time of Compliance - The New Conservative

I have almost given up on late-night comedy on BBC Radio 4. In fact, I have almost given up on the station entirely. The news is biased, and the comedy—studiously avoiding the tripwires of the woke and hypersensitive—is rarely funny. One of my favourite programmes used to be Dead Ringers, the topical satirical impressions show fronted by Jon Culshaw. Some of the impressions were so good, I’d sometimes wonder if the person being portrayed had mad…