BBC Director - "To Axe Left Wing Comedy"

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Christmas line up will be:

Jim Davidson starring in a remake of Love thy Neighbour as Eddie Booth. With David Walliams as Bill Reynolds. In the first hilarious episode Eddie buys Teresa May's go home van and parks it on Bills lawn. The series also heralds a return to the screen of Davidson's traditional character Chalkie.

Nigel Farages House Party featuring Mr Blobby, aka Mark Francois will be standing on the white cliffs of Dover with an RPG inviting lucky contestants to Sink a Migrant.

Geoff Norcott to replace Frankie Boyle on New World Order to give his comedic turn on how BLM Marxists are destroying the political system.

Mrs Brown's Boys.
 

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Once again, the absence of creative people on the right in the arts is not down to a conspiracy, but because they just don't exist in big numbers.

Wheel on as many right wing comedians as you can, nobody will laugh unless they're actually funny. And studio audiences tend to be young, metropolitan and left leaning.
 
Zuriblue said:
Once again, the absence of creative people on the right in the arts is not down to a conspiracy, but because they just don't exist in big numbers.

Wheel on as many right wing comedians as you can, nobody will laugh unless they're actually funny. And studio audiences tend to be young, metropolitan and left leaning.
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I believe the BBC are just getting rid of the ultra woke stuff, comedy is comedy and all things being equal it has to be funny. Stuff ranging from One Foot In The Grave, Vicar Of Dibley, The Inbetweeners and the classic Only Fools And Horses should be the yardstick the BBC content should be judged by.

Most good comedy should be close to the bone, it should be even handed and written to bring some joy into our sometimes miserable lives.
 
If someone is funny, they are funny.

Don't think i have ever sat and watched a comedian and refused to laugh because of their politics in fact i don't think i have ever decided to find out a comedians politics.

A few posters need a break from this forum. Go sit in the transfer forum for a week and enjoy you miserable twats ;-)
 
BobKowalski said:
Is this the ‘Cancel Culture’ we hear so much about?
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If they were being cancelled for their privately held opinions which bear no relation to their job then I'd be worried.

As it is, many are set to be cancelled in the interests of balance and impartiality on the BBC, and some will hopefully be cancelled because they are just plain shit.

Hopefully, the funny left-wing comedy survives but whoever commissioned Nish Kumar wants a head check. He's trending on Twitter as someone who's unfairly targeted because of his race. If anyone thinks that, do yourself a favour and go and watch 5 minutes of the Mash Report. If that doesn't change your mind, nothing will.
 
mexico1970 said:
I believe the BBC are just getting rid of the ultra woke stuff, comedy is comedy and all things being equal it has to be funny. Stuff ranging from One Foot In The Grave, Vicar Of Dibley, The Inbetweeners and the classic Only Fools And Horses should be the yardstick the BBC content should be judged by.

Most good comedy should be close to the bone, it should be even handed and written to bring some joy into our sometimes miserable lives.
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Is this a parody? I mean, fair play if it is, because it’s hilarious.
 
blueinsa said:
If someone is funny, they are funny.

Don't think i have ever sat and watched a comedian and refused to laugh because of their politics in fact i don't think i have ever decided to find out a comedians politics.

A few posters need a break from this forum. Go sit in the transfer forum for a week and enjoy you miserable twats ;-)
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Says the man who keeps posting in this forum :)

Or are you being whimsical?
 
PannickAtTheDisco said:
Frankie Boyle may be left-wing, but his comedy isn't. He may talk about left wing subjects, but take his political views away and left wingers would be foaming at the mouth at most of the content.
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Is that actually right v left thing or just a debate about political correctness? Ricky Gervais is another one who's difficult to pigeon hole. I don't see him as particularly right wing, but he does like to take the piss out of the outraged 'left'.
 
PannickAtTheDisco said:
Frankie Boyle may be left-wing, but his comedy isn't. He may talk about left wing subjects, but take his political views away and left wingers would be foaming at the mouth at most of the content.
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Boyle likes to give it out but he can't take it, he can be as offensive as he likes but he whinges about anyone not on his political spectrum being offensive.
 
PannickAtTheDisco said:
Frankie Boyle may be left-wing, but his comedy isn't. He may talk about left wing subjects, but take his political views away and left wingers would be foaming at the mouth at most of the content.
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Comedy has been poor on the BBC for years, I actually hate satire from all angles on the spectrum and don't find it funny. I work all week, watch the news, when I relax in the evening I just want to switch off from the world. Don't need to be reminded of uncertainty of Brexit. "Comedy" involving job losses, impacts to health etc just aren't funny. May be produce something that might unify people or be genuinely funny.

Frankie Boyle is a nasty twat, not sure why the BBC continue to employ this horrid tramp. Years a go he took pleasure in taking the piss out of people's physical appearances notably Becky Adlington. You aren't funny if you have to resort to mocking appearances.
 
Fame Monster said:
If they were being cancelled for their privately held opinions which bear no relation to their job then I'd be worried.

As it is, many are set to be cancelled in the interests of balance and impartiality on the BBC, and some will hopefully be cancelled because they are just plain shit.

Hopefully, the funny left-wing comedy survives but whoever commissioned Nish Kumar wants a head check. He's trending on Twitter as someone who's unfairly targeted because of his race. If anyone thinks that, do yourself a favour and go and watch 5 minutes of the Mash Report. If that doesn't change your mind, nothing will.
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Yeah, once it goes through the ’Committee for Balance and Impartiality’ it will have everyone chuckling at home.

 
Probably room for a new Citizen Smith style sitcom based on Antifa/BLM or the greta thunberg mob - probably the same people. Also maybe a gentle Sunday evening sitcom based upon the Yaxley Lennons of Luton - sort of like a racist last of the summer wine.
Something there for us all to laugh at.
 
BobKowalski said:
Yeah, once it goes through the ’Committee for Balance and Impartiality’ it will have everyone chuckling at home.

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I don't mind a 'left-wing' comedian being biased and mocking supposedly 'right-wing' topics as long as it's funny.

The problem is when the channel employ 90% of comedians with the same views or do skits with the same political slant.
 
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