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Is the BBC biased? News Quiz host Andy Zaltzman on political comedy & Boris Johnson
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February 22, 2022
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18:58Now PlayingAndy Zaltzman is a satirist, comedian, broadcaster, the host of Radio 4’s The News Quiz and the podcast The Bugle and he joins the New Statesman’s Britain editor Anoosh Chakelian to discuss Boris Johnson, Donald Trump, Brexit and many more of the challenges and opportunities in British comedy and global politics.
Ahead of his Satirist for Hire tour, they talk about the history of political comedy, whether there are some topics too serious to joke about be it Boris Johnson's partygate, Brexit or Donald Trump, and if you can really have political balance in comedy.
Plus, they discover what Zaltzman and Boris Johnson have in common.
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