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A group called the Campaign For Common Sense revealed the result of an analysis of BBC comedy shows yesterday: last month, out of 141 comedians across 364 slots on such programmes as Have I Got News For You and Mock The Week, 74 per cent of the slots were occupied by comedians with publicly pronounced Left-leaning, anti-Brexit, or woke views .
This amazed me. I would not have expected the figure to be that low. If asked to guess, I would have suggested 90 per cent although this might reflect my own bias.
Or it might be because the one BBC comedy show (I use the term generously) that most intrudes on my viewing is something called The Mini Mash Report.