You have to laugh
Planet Normal
Louisa Wells
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
... or you'll cry. This week Telegraph columnists Allison Pearson and Liam Halligan are joined by a man whose raison d'être is to get the country smiling. Geoff Norcott, one of the UK's only vocally Right-wing comedians, tells Planet Normal why the BBC's pledge towards diversity of opinion might prove futile, why the "woke" musn't be exempt from comedy and why he would never apologise for a joke.
Also on the podcast: Allison and Liam weigh up whether Victoria Wood's comedy would fall victim to so-called "cancel culture" and the pair find a cunning loophole to make their Christmases Covid-compliant.
Read more from Allison: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/allison-pearson/ |
Read more from Liam: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/liam-halligan/ |
"The UK has to defend itself against predatory diplomacy, deal or no deal" - Ambrose Evans-Pritchard: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2020/09/13/uk-has-defend-against-predatory-diplomacy-deal-no-deal/ |
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| 0:00.0 | The Telugu- |
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| 0:38.0 | And I feel a deep sense of irresponsibility laughing about it because I know I... |
| 0:45.0 | Let me just reassure all the Wokelifting comics that their darkest fears aren't true yet. |
| 0:51.0 | Three. |
| 0:53.0 | We have a media class which just absolutely turns out this porn of doom every day. |
| 0:59.0 | Every time a comic apologises for a joke when they don't mean it, I think an angel dies. |
| 1:13.0 | It's our weekly blast off and once again the cockpit controls are set for planet normal. |
| 1:18.0 | As we speed along in this rocket of right thinking, this blessed capsule of common sense, what a mad world we're leaving behind. |
| 1:25.0 | This is a telegraph podcast with co-pilot Alison Pearson. |
| 1:29.0 | Hello. |
| 1:30.0 | And me, Liam Halligan. |
| 1:32.0 | On last week's voyage, we welcomed former Supreme Court judge Jonathan Sumpch and to planet normal. |
| 1:37.0 | After he highlighted the government's imposing lockdown measures, under a law which prevents parliamentary scrutiny, Q-wide spread outcry. |
| 1:45.0 | Meanwhile, the joys of the new rule of six, which the government hopes will keep everyone happy. |
| 1:51.0 | But happy isn't allowed because there are seven dwarfs and if they all got together that would break the law. |
| 1:57.0 | Maybe Snow White will inform on them as ministers recommend, calling up the Wicked Witch. |
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