Munya Chawawa on making jokes as the world collapses
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🗓️ 18 May 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is The Guardian. |
| 0:09.0 | Today, the art of making youcape of Britain after the local elections. |
| 0:26.0 | I start each day disappointed to find that. |
| 0:28.6 | Mnir Chihuahua. |
| 0:30.1 | Even if you don't know his name, you will almost certainly have seen one of his skits. |
| 0:35.3 | He's the guy in your feeds who will take a nostalgic chartbanger and turn it into a political |
| 0:40.1 | parody. |
| 0:41.3 | Now on to meditation. |
| 0:42.8 | To achieve the perfect om, I imagine I'm a reform counselor being asked to name one policy |
| 0:47.2 | other than immigration. |
| 0:51.5 | He first blew up in the pandemic, rinsing the Health Secretary. |
| 0:56.0 | Wasn't me? |
| 0:57.2 | The Sun-newspaper called me red-man lit, creeping with a story next door. |
| 1:01.8 | Was it me? |
| 1:02.4 | Said you wanted some of that met, Angawk banging all my down-the-street door. |
| 1:06.7 | The Prime Minister. |
| 1:08.6 | I was in the corner with my tories, trying to sip a little beer. It was B-Y-O-B. Had a case of... The Prime Minister. |
| 1:21.0 | The sheer absurdity of living through lockdown. |
| 1:23.1 | I've got something to say. |
| 1:27.4 | Yeah, it's great COVID seven days. |
| 1:28.8 | Check it out. |
| 1:29.7 | Yeah. |
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