BBC Director - "To Axe Left Wing Comedy"

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urban genie said:
No I have watched many years of HIGNFY and to me he seems to be a liberal conservative, hence why I put him as soft right.

Never called him a tory, he is more an orange book liberal, and they are still right wing.

And how does he talk nice? His accent isn't posh and is quite neutral and common so their is no region bias to pick up on
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Brilliant documentary on fake news shown on the beeb this week
 
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why would the Govt do anything to harm the BBC when they have "their" people in the right places - eg Tory Keunessberg? I mean Govt found guilty and losing an appeal and the BBC helpfully gas light the public by leading on a story about Harry and Meghan

 
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bluethrunthru said:
why would the Govt do anything to harm the BBC when they have "their" people in the right places - eg Tory Keunessberg? I mean Govt found guilty and losing an appeal and the BBC helpfully gas light the public by leading on a story about Harry and Meghan

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It’s because your average person is more interested in ‘arry and Megz than they are government contracts.

Not everyone spends their lives scouring the internet for negative Tory articles.
 
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Used to like Andrew Lawrence when he was on TV, had a browse of his new self produced stuff on twitter a few months back and it was just terrible.

Geoff Northcott is one of the few decent ones on mainstream TV and seems to possess what lots of the other supposedly right-wing comedians lack- self-awareness and the ability to make jokes at your own expense.

Almost as if right-wing comedy or overly political routines are the lazy approach for failing talent looking for someone to blame or an easy captive audience.

For a bit of balance, I don't particularly find Nish Kumar all that funny, and think Russell Howard has been flogging a dead horse of a format on Comedy Central since BBC Three got axed.
 
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Fode N The Hole said:
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Used to like Andrew Lawrence when he was on TV, had a browse of his new self produced stuff on twitter a few months back and it was just terrible.

Geoff Northcott is one of the few decent ones on mainstream TV and seems to possess what lots of the other supposedly right-wing comedians lack- self-awareness and the ability to make jokes at your own expense.

Almost as if right-wing comedy or overly political routines are the lazy approach for failing talent looking for someone to blame or an easy captive audience.

For a bit of balance, I don't particularly find Nish Kumar all that funny, and think Russell Howard has been flogging a dead horse of a format on Comedy Central since BBC Three got axed.
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Frankie Boyle nailed them in one of his books. Get on Tele and their politics erodes.
 
Zuriblue said:
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Man who insists ‘cancel culture is a cancer’ busy celebrating cancellation of comedy show he didn’t like

As news emerged that the BBC has cancelled The Mash Report, people who have spent the last few years bemoaning cancel culture are celebrating a show being cancelled because they didn’t like i…
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The independence of the BBC no longer exists. Coming soon Rick Stein's series on 101 ways to cook Cornish bi-valve molluscs - Abandoned Engineering looks at great schemes that never were featuring the Garden Bridge and the Thames Estuary Airport and Great Railway Journeys Michael Portillo travels from London to Birmingham telling viewers how much better it will be to do the journey in 10 fewer minutes once HS2 is built. Ep2 Brum to Manchester is axed because that stretch of HS2 is axed
 
Axing The Mash Report because its left wing and critical of the Govt will be a blow to Geoff Northcott probably the only right wing comic who gets regular screen time on the BBC........on The Mash Report - does all seem counter intuitive
 
Absolutely shows you the nightmare this country has sleepwalked into over the last five years: a comedy show that is critical of the government has been axed by the Prime Minister from our state-owned broadcaster. Presumably Jim Davidson is writing his scripts as we speak.

What the fuck happened? We are regressing fast now.
 
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carlosthejackal said:
Just wondering if anybody on this forum can justify this or will they stay silent over state censorship ?
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The justification is that the show was crap. I had a few of the shows 'highlights' suggested to me on YouTube and I could never watch the whole thing.
 
crooky said:
The justification is that the show was crap. I had a few of the shows 'highlights' suggested to me on YouTube and I could never watch the whole thing.
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I would have thought that sort of judgement is down to an individual - compare viewing figures with other comedy shows shown at the same time on the same channel that will tell you what the viewing public thought and as they pay the license fee it should for them to decide
 
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