Daily: Crossing swords with GEOFF NORCOTT, conservative comedian

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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🗓️ 11 December 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Never let it be said we don’t mix it up… We lure Geoff Norcott, famously the only* right of centre comedian out there, into The Bunker and attempt a civilised conversation. How does a working class son of a trade unionist end up on the political right? Why does right wing comedy reiterate the same tired punchlines about “wokeness”? And how does he think Brexit – which he voted for – is going? * Not really, but listen and find out. “I’m not the ONLY right-wing comedian… but when we have the Christmas party, we don’t have to hire a big room.” “The idea of a room full of people agreeing with each other doesn’t appeal to me, whoever they are.” “Every wing of politics has trashed their own brand.” “Stewart Lee always makes me laugh even though I’m the person he’d probably hate the most.” “As a straight, white, middle-aged man, yeah I’ve taken advantage of BBC diversity quotas.” “I’m not anti-woke. I’m anti- bad ideas.” “I voted for a Deal and if there isn’t one, I’ll be angry.” Presented and produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producers Jelena Sofronijevic and Jacob Archbold. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:24.4	He's a rare conservative voting comic and the only comedian we can think of who said he voted to leave the EU.
1:29.0	The son of an active trade unionist from South London, he started doing comedy in 2001 and he's
1:33.7	risen to become a regular on BBC 2's Mash report and question time. Next year he's
1:37.6	publishing a book where did I go right in which he unpicks his working class
1:41.0	upbringing and his political journey and he hosts a weekly
1:43.6	podcast called What Most People Think, where the guests are often people like David Badele,
1:47.5	Marcus Brickstock and other bleeding heart liberals like me. Jeff Norcotte,
1:51.6	welcome to the inner sanctum of wet lefty liberalism.
1:54.4	How are you doing?
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