Bbc Biased? Never!

[naomi24]

‘Have I Got News for You’ makes five times more jokes about the Tories than Labour, a Sun probe discovered.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/4882277/have-i-got-news-for-you-makes-more-jokes-about-the-tories-than-labour/

Anyone surprised? I'm not.

[albaqwerty]

not who - would that....
(blooming chunky digits)

[-Talbot-]

My love of laughing will always top any concerns of bias when it comes to politicians

[naomi24]

alba, //(pompous attitudes abound at times) //

Indeed - and for no discernible reason.

Eddie, //Once Labour are in power they will become the main source of jokes. Will you still be commenting then? //

Unless a similar exercise is carried out, I doubt it. I last watched the programme some considerable time ago when one of the guests was humiliated relentlessly - and I didn't laugh once. I now leave the show to those who find that sort of thing humorous.

[ToraToraTora]

TBF the show started in 1990 and as such has never been on during the tenure of a Labour governement.

[weecalf]

Did Boris not do a few shows which probably accounted for it .

[anneasquith]

This is news ?

[albaqwerty]

anne, it would seem the sun have got news for us

however, SHGNFU doesn't have the same ring as HIGNFY

[jno]

making more fun of the government than the opposition? How is this possible?

I note the Sun doesn't seem to have drawn up comparable figures from before 2010. What a surprise. Surely the Sun couldn't be biased?

[jno]

when one of the guests was humiliated relentlessly

the well known Tory Roy Hattersley perhaps?

[EDDIE51]

TTT and others my user name is EDDIE51 not EDDIES
I know an S looks like a 5
The 51 is a reference to when I was born.

[EDDIE51]

I bet they can't wait for Corbyn to become PM , the jokes will be endless.

[naomi24]

Not Roy Hattersley, jno.

[jno]

they used to take the urine out of Hattersley quite a bit, back in the days when Labour were in power, hence my earlier post. They eventually repaced him with a tub of lard when he failed to turn up for a broadcast.

[ToraToraTora]

but jno Labour have not been in power since 1979, the show started in 1990.

[emmie]

not in the least, i've stopped watching it anyway.

[Old_Geezer]

Of course it's unsurprising. The two captain's appear to be politically left of centre. Furthermore it's the Tories who are in power so they are the main target for urine extraction.

[naomi24]

TTT, Labour was in government from 1997 to 2010.

[albaqwerty]

Naomi, he's air-brushed that from history :-D

[sp1814]

Satirical programmes will naturally snap at those in power.

The vast majority of comedians lean to the left politically, which will be reflected in their routines and the jokes they make on telly. The same is true on Mock The Week and Eight out of Ten Cats.

It should never be editorial policy to evenly distribute jokes across the political spectrum.

[Ken4155]

I quite often read on these pages that the majority (sometimes vast majority) of comedians are lefties. Is this really true and is there any proof of this in the form of a survey or some such?