As long as it's got a good gag attached to it, i will laugh. My dad always says, you can tell who i like, because i'm awful to them. So i think that good satire most of the time, people like me shouldn't take offence to it. There is a ben swain in every room in westminster. I don't watch the sort of idiotic characters on the thick of it and and think, ohwell, you know, this is what has led to people thinking they deserve to die.
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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