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Good, because have an honours degree in History.

That's more or less what this thread is asking. So I explained why there aren't any Leftie-bashing standups!

Well, maybe it's a male - female thing or even an age thing. HovaBoy used to howl at Chubby Brown, but he left me cold. In fact, HovaBoy doesn't find any of the modern comedians funny, and he's always been a bit obsessed with comedy. He's a bit of a comedian himself, you see, and has a comedy...

Why?

I think the core talent of any comedian has to be, firstly, observation of human behaviour, and secondly, to be able to put it into words and actions which are amusing. Any comedian who pinpoints the ridiculous things that people do, is on to a winner, if his audience actually recognises such...

Nope. I got here first. S/he has pinched my name!

Britain isn't, quintessentially, a Left-wing country and neither is it particularly Right-wing, hence the swing from party to party every few elections. Much of Britain is middle-of-the road, and newspaper editorials can swing the voters this way and that, because the electorate isn't...

Actually, it was the other way around. The Whigs represented the great landowners' interests and the Conservatives stood for those of the working man of the day, that is, the smaller businessman or worker who owned perhaps at least one little house. Hence the nick-name of Tories, given to them...

My theory is that when it comes to Leftie-bashing by comedians, the Left have no sense of humour! They don't find it funny and just take it personally.