Tough topics indeed

Does anyone ever watch it apart from those unfortunate enough to be dragged into the studio audience?

Translated “The Mash report has always focused on the topics that other left-wing comedians cover in their material. It attempts to make fun of people who disagree with the hegemonic opinions of left-wing comedians by appealing to mawkish sentiment and utilising tired tropes such as ‘Tories want poor people to die’, ‘The rich are only rich as they are thieves’ and ‘the rules we make them play by don’t apply to us’.”

Serious political humour? It’s south of Citizen Smith.

Actually, that’s a lie.

Tory immigration policy is the same as the immigration policy of every other swamp-dwelling party: lie to the public whilst importing as many cut-throats, swindlers and deadbeats as possible. And, when the lying starts to wear thin, legislate to harass and ruin dissenters.

Scripted comedy usually leaves me cold. My funny bone responds more to adlibbing and genuine wit.

It all went wrong with Elton (Ben, not Reg) and ‘alternative comedy’ (honorable exception The Young Ones) ie: Not funny.
Harry Enfields first couple of series had great moments: Waynetta’s “I want a brown baby like all the other single mums on the estate” wouldn’t be tolerated today.

Told any jokes about Islam recently? Any ripping the piss out of the gender pay gap?

They have a standard response to that point: comedy can only be about punching up, as if that’s the end of the discussion.

That’s why the likes of Dave Chapelle and the Comedy Club’s anything goes sessions are so popular, decent humour has been driven underground.

W1A (and it’s predecessor about the Olympics) wasn’t bad and showed the BBC could make fun of itself and I did enjoy Rev, but generally comedy and BBC don’t go hand in hand

Certain Islamee chapeez has for decades with impunity been plundering the chaste tresor of native maidens.

But comedy about rapey Bangla taxi drivers is ‘punching down’, ‘cos they’re the victims?

I hereby invoke Lud’s first law of satire:

“Satire is a rueful comfort to the dispossessed and the wise. It is a road map to the wiser, the winners”.

Hancock emotional as he launches new coronavirus death rules after ‘heartbreaking’ stories
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiDUv19k-bM

Hancock needs to be emotional and weep to see he’s wrong? Twat

I said last week the rule was wrong and evil – no emotion or weeping involved, only some empathy & kindness

Dogs, horses, most mammals want to see & say goodbye to others in their pack

Trump tears down CNN analyst: He’s a showboat, a loudmouth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJf5a9EZI-8

Trump spot on again, he says what BoJo, Hancock etc won’t

Oh look, Glover tentatively breaks ranks

…Now, I’m going to say something which during the present climate – when everyone, including the Prime Minister, now mercifully recovered, is praising the NHS to the skies – may seem controversial.
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The organisation is not perfect. Its doctors, nurses and other workers are exemplary, and we owe them an incalculable debt. But they are not the health service. The NHS – along with its quango little sister, Public Health England – is a vast lumbering and often inefficient bureaucracy. It does not respond quickly to the rapidly developing demands of this cunning virus.
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Already we have seen how cumbersome the NHS has been in grappling with testing, where the daily rate is still far below what experts agree is necessary. This slowness appears to have been at least in part the result of suspicions harboured by health service jobsworths over private laboratories.

Of course, I can appreciate that proper testing is a complicated issue. It is undeniably true that many other countries have also not covered themselves in glory. But is providing enough basic gowns, and other fairly straightforward PPE equipment, really so much of a challenge for a country that is supposed to have the fifth or sixth largest economy in the world?
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With at least two months’ notice, it surely would have been possible to ramp up the manufacture of gowns in the UK, instead of relying on fardistant China. There have even been appalling stories of health workers cutting up curtains. Slow-footed though the NHS and Public Health England are, the buck stops with Mr Hancock

“buck stops with Mr Hancock” – maybe he assumed the ‘independent NHS Trusts’ highly paid directors would do their job and order accordingly, after all if he’d ordered them too MSM would have been screaming “Dictator”

Care Minister Helen Whately appears on GMB to talk about the amount of coronavirus tests that are going to care homes. Piers asks the Minister about the lack of PPE for care workers and what more can be done for the NHS in the scamdemic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=by0gRQIWvd4

Who the hell let this stupid woman go on live TV? She’s useless, rambles and again refuses to say “I don’t know, we’ve never recorded daily care-home deaths. Peeps there are at end of life and most die within a year of entry”

Care Minister – Why does this exist? End all these superfluous ministers

– If coronavirus infection is more widespread than we thought, by definition that means the virus is less deadly; insight from Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, Stanford University professor of medicine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NjCitwKJSQ

0.2% or lower sounds about correct. If this proves true, the headline in the New York Times will read: Trump’s Overreaction, Without Evidence of Virus’s Lethality, Destroyed Economy

– Closing America undoubtedly both saved and ruined lives; Trump wants it Opened
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGaNn5SwLLg

Yes, open; shutdown was msm driven hysterical insanity

– Citizens of Michigan protest Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s ‘arbitrary’ stay at home order
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC62S0-N3pI

Those who give up freedom for security deserve neither – Benjamin Franklin

– This clip is worth watching for the total smackdown Jesse Waters lays on the WHO at the end
Media outrage after President Trump halts funding to the World Health Organization
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cz3Ko1poKpM