On Have I Got News For You, I saw the Conservative frontrunner learn how to joke his way out of trouble.
There’s a scene in the sitcom Outnumbered from 2011 in which a group of school children ask a German exchange student to name his favourite British comedians. “Ricky Gervais,” he says “and that man who plays a funny character, the fat politician, the blond one, rides a bike.” “The mayor of London?” “Yes, that’s the one!”
The show’s writers, Guy Jenkin and Andy Hamilton, work mostly at Hat Trick, the company that produces the BBC’s Have I Got …read more
Source: New Statesman
