I always be suspicious of the person who can't take a joke, because they are usually the ones that end up causing the most destruction. I mean, most dictators do not like comedians. They don't like anything that's spontaneous. Just where you will bolish your offence and s i think that if you, i mean, i don't think you shouldn't take the piss set of women. Or people for their political views or i think that we're in a sort of worrying time where the offence taken is largely partal what you've said about. And then if you make a gag at somebody's expense, they will assume bad faith. There is so much bad faith in the world
Though no laughing matter, the extremes of the Donald Trump presidency made comedians' jobs a little trickier: was the reality more absurd than satire created around it? In 2020 we invited celebrated comedy writer and producer Armando Iannucci, Labour MP Jess Phillips, and satirist and impressionist Jan Ravens, to discuss the issue. The event was chaired by journalist Samira Ahmed.
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