"The BBC does not book rightwing comedians for its shows because they are not funny enough, according to an individual involved in making some of the corporation’s best-known comedy programmes."
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2...Gb97apgCYoPiDZX2LPBoYQmDW2JhwkuZvJyalzRig-9nE
They don't seem to book funny comedians, if the 6.30 slot on Radio 4's anything to go by.
I thought they brought back Hancock's Half Hour - or perhaps that was the News
Mark Steel is very funny in his ‘round the country’ guise but his politics are on the juvenile scale, his column in the ‘i’ was unreadable.The comedians I like best are a-political, or at least they don't do 'political' humour, whatever their actual views/beliefs. Stuff like Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer, The Mighty Boosh, The IT Crowd, Father Ted, Seinfeld, Frasier. Mark Steel is very funny, but I've only really listened to his 'round the country' programmes, which are more about chatting to people than making jokes.
Bernard Manning wasn’t right wing in the political sense, he was a Labour supporter.Aren’t we all forgetting just how funny full-on racism, homophobia and sexism are? Bernard Manning! Roy Chubby Brown! Jim Davidson! Nigel Farage! Tony Abbott! Donald Trump! David Starkey! The comic genius of the political right...
The right wing mind set is a fix mentality with fixed reality based on who they copied as a child. Usually their parents or religious leaders. They find it difficult to relate to any other life experience than their own hence their ability to observe the world and see the peculiarities and complexities and find humour in that is limited.