Is satire fundamentally left wing or right wing? Does the BBC now have a right wing agenda? Can right wing comedy actually be funny? And was all this really the reason The Mash Report got cancelled? Jo and Adam talk about all of this and more (including their own shocking Political Compass Results!!!) in this all new episode, also featuring a chat with recovering stand-up comic and scholar of comedy, Seb Bloomfield. 

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In this episode Jo and Adam talk about:

Alan Partridge 

A Modest Proposal (by Jonathan Swift)

Andrew Doyle

Armando Iannucci 

Authoritarianism 

BBC

Bernard Manning 

Boris Johnson 

Brexit 

Caroline Lucas

Class

Comedy

COVID-19

Daily Mail

David Schneider 

Gavin Williamson 

Geoff Norcott 

Graham Norton 

Have I Got New For You

Jeremy Corbyn 

Jim Davison 

Kier Starmer 

Labour Party 

Leigh Stein 

Libertarianism 

Lockdown

Nelson Mandela 

Nish Kumar 

Margaret Thatcher 

Mark Oliver 

Martin Luther King 

Michael Macintyre

Observational Comedy  

Owen Jones 

Overton Window 

Political Compass 

Race

Rachel Parris 

Radio 4 

Rory Bremner 

Roy Chubby Brown 

Saturday Night Armistice 

Sex

Sharon Lockyer

Simon Evans 

Socialism 

Social Justice 

Snowflakes

Stalin 

Stand-up comedy

Stephen Colbert 

Stewart Lee 

The Daily Show

The West Wing 

The Mash Report 

The Spectator 

This Time (with Alan Partridge)

Thomas Paine 

Tom Slater

Tony Blair 

Tim Davis (Director General of the BBC)

Check out Seb’s article ‘BBC Comedy’s Not Left Wing: It’s Audience has Moved to the Right’ in The Conversation.