Edinburgh Fringe: Do people still want to laugh at politics?
This Is Why
Sky News
4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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On the Sky News Daily podcast, our arts & entertainment editor Amy Hitchcock is joined by comedians Nish Kumar, Rosie Holt and Sarah Southern, along with our entertainment reporter Jayson Mansaray.
Senior podcast producer: Annie Joyce
Interviews producer: Madeleine Drury
Podcast promotions producer: David Chipakupaku
Editor: Paul Stanworth
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| 1:01.0 | Down the decades, politics has been a fabulously juicy source of material for comedians for fairly obvious reasons. |
| 1:08.1 | Why? |
| 1:08.7 | Why we will never... |
| 1:10.3 | Excuse me. Theresa May at the Tory Party reasons. Why we will never... Excuse me. |
| 1:11.5 | Theresa May at the Tory Party conference. |
| 1:16.6 | Boris Johnson being heckled after riots in 2011. |
| 1:22.5 | Who can forget John Prescott being egged in 2001. |
| 1:30.3 | We did not visit the castle. We did not walk around the town. Dominic Cummings and that lockdown trip to Barnard Castle and former health secretary, Matt Hancock. |
| 1:37.3 | Those of us who make these rules have got to stick by them and that's why I've got to resign. |
| 1:43.3 | Stand up, TV, theatre. There's always been to stick by them and that's why I've got to resign. |
| 1:47.1 | Stand up, TV, theatre. |
| 1:50.4 | There's always been plenty of material to work with. |
| 1:55.9 | And at the forefront of political satire since the 1940s really is the Edinburgh Fringe. |
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