BRACE yourselves comedy fans. The funniest joke of the Edinburgh Fringe has just been revealed by the Dave TV Channel, and if it appeared in our Christmas crackers there’d be a mass conversion to t…
For the first and last time that afternoon, I laughed out loud at such an obviously ridiculous suggestion.It really was a routine about her love affair with the Labour Party and she was applauded all the way by her easy-to-please audience., the poor sod, at a Labour Party Conference, wasn’t an aberration, either.
It turned out there were now lots of other left-wing activists — like Nish Kumar and Suzi Ruffell — masquerading under the banner “comedian”, who were in fact just horrible people chasing easy applause from a like-minded crowd.
I expected no better, obviously, from the witless hypocrites who run television and happily employ left-wing, who makes rape jokes about Victoria Pendleton, but won’t now touch Linehan, who has only ever sought to protect women. The thing that should make everyone despair, though, is the lack of support from his fellow writers and comedians, who would all have been begging Linehan to write them a part in one of his sitcoms ten years ago.
Now? When he needs them most? These “edgy” and “brave” stand-ups, who are normally so outspoken, slink away silently into the
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