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Trains now on Uber. Tees and sees apply check the Uber app. Hello and welcome to the Red Box Politics Podcast on The Times. I'm Matt Surely.

This is part one in a four-part series on politics and comedy. I've been speaking to the people who write

jokes about politicians and for them and asking whether there was a serious point to being

funny about the people who run the country. In later episodes we'll hear from

comedians Al-, Andy's

Altzman, Tiff Stevenson and the Times own Hugo Rifkin,

plus Daniel Finkelstein, James McGrawy and Iisha Hasarika

on the pitfalls of politicians who try to make us laugh.

In this episode I talked to comedian and impressionist Rory. pitfalls of politicians who try to make us laugh.

In this episode I talk to comedian and impressionist Rory Bremer,

who gives voice to Donald Trump, David Cameron, Boris Johnson and William Hague,

while discussing the politicians too dull to mimic the difference between satire and topical

comedy and what Julian Clary and John Major have in common. But first I began by asking him how he came to do

what he does. Whatever it is you do, how did you start?

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