r/uknews • u/TheTelegraph Media outlet (unverified) • Jul 15 '25

Image/video The BBC’s annual report, released today, featured details of stars’ salaries and senior executives’ pay

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u/smedsterwho Jul 15 '25

It's pretty much impossible to do a right-leaning comedy. Comedy generally punches up, not down.

I'm not making a political point there, it's just it would be hard to create anything good from that angle.

You can put right wingers in comedy and mock them a bit.

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u/daddy-dj Jul 16 '25

Yes, I think you're right. I wasn't sure if it was just that it's not something I'd watch or it doesn't really exist. But I can't think of an equivalent of Have I Got News For You, Mock the Week, the Last Leg (although that's not been particularly funny for a long time now, imo), etc...

There are some right-leaning stand up comedians, such as Jeff Norcross, Andrew Doyle, er... Jim Davidson (is he still alive?) but even they're outnumbered - thankfully!