Welcome to ACFM, the home of the weird left. I'm Nadia Eidl and I'm here today as usual

with my friends Jeremy Gilbert and Kim Ilbone. And today we are talking about comedy. So guys why

are we talking about comedy today? I mean it's an interesting topic in itself as a big part of

life when we like to talk about life so you know it's a really interesting thing to get into

but like I'd make an argument that comedy is in a bit of a strange state at the moment it's

almost like it's not in a good place if you know what I mean. Nothing's funny anymore and yet

and yet we'd expect it to be funny at all times particularly on this podcast. That's what people

to union for. It is. It is one line as. I mean that is the problem in it when you just when

you like dissect comedy it removes the humour from it so I'm this might be our least funny

podcast so far. But anyway look what I'm trying to say is there's certain things going on with

comedy which make it an interesting thing to talk about. One of those is this question we're

talking about now which is there's political satire work anymore. I think it completely and

utterly broke down during the Corbin years. I don't think it's it managed to resurrect itself but

it's a political satire. It's almost like it's a defunct form or if it's not defunct then it's

moved into a different sphere like you know the onion and these sorts of things. The other thing

you'd say is that comedy or standard comedy in particular and probably particularly in the US

it went from a sort of like me too moment a few years ago and it's been a big backlash against that

and at the moment it's sort of really dominated by not particularly interesting

grandstanding around sort of free speech and these sorts of things basically. And it's sort of

interesting to think about why that is at the same time it sort of feeds into some other debates

that we've had for a long time around things such as what was once called the old right you know

this grab by the right to try to erect itself as as though it's the counter culture in some sort of

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