The Spectator | Covid, Trump and Brexit: the decline and fall of political comedy | SpectatorTV @SpectatorTV | Uploaded August 2024 | Updated October 2024, 8 hours ago.
Comedian Simon Evans and professor and author Alison Dagnes join The Spectator's News Editor John Connolly to discuss how our comedy has changed over recent years. As Edinburgh Fringe draws to a close, what's been on this year, and how is our political comedy changing? Will a new government be subject to the same jibes as the previous one?

What's happened to our political comedy? With Simon Evans and Alison Dagnes

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