Lampooning pomposity, whether it be from left or right, is the only real
Job of a comic on the BBC
The website UnHerd last week decried the tendency of the right to focus on the hypocrisy of the left, rather than define and defend a position of its own. Writer Ben Sixsmith quoted low-key conservative comic Norm Macdonald on the
Bill Cosby scandal: “People say the hypocrisy is the worst thing. I don’t know. I think it was the raping.”
Nevertheless, when it comes to the current controversy surrounding
BBC comedy, following reports that the new director general Tim Davie is planning to tackle perceived “leftwing bias”, the hypocrisy really might be the worst thing.