YOU CAN’T LAUGH AT AUTOCRATS : THE NEW DIRECTOR GENERAL OF THE BBC has got off to a flying start by tipping his hat to Dominic Cummings.
“It’s magnificent,” a Downing Street source told LCD Views, “if it wasn’t for the new DG’s threat to axe left wing comedy then everyone would be talking about our plans to destroy the electoral commission.”
Whether or not the announcement by the BBC’s new director general to axe left wing comedy is a dead cat or not is up for debate. The plans to hobble the Electoral Commission are no joke. That’s deadly serious. As it’s one of the few official bodies that called out the lawbreaking by the Brexiters.
“The BBC thing is a Schrodinger’s dead cat,” the source explains, “it both is and isn’t a dead cat story. It causes outrage amongst the lefties, so is a useful distraction, but it’s also something that needs doing, when you really think about it.”
The reasons are obvious.
“Comedy is one of the most democratic forms of protest. Anyone can do it. And to laugh at those with power over you is valuable dissent. We can’t be having that if we’re to make a success of Brexit!”
What will replace the left wing shows is not yet clear though.
“If we were really after balance we wouldn’t replace them with anything, that way everyone is equally miserable, regardless of where you are on the political spectrum.”
What about a “Very British Comedy” featuring all the non-PC jokes from decades past?
“No, I think we’ll just add a laughter track to Question Time,” the source shrugs, “oh and outlaw repeating footage of a certain right wing joke flailing about on a high wire and looking a right prat.”