Can we all take a moment to marvel at the courage of Joe Lycett? Imagine the cojones it must take to go on the BBC and make fun of the Tories. How truly stunning and brave. Roll over Lenny Bruce and Bill Hicks – there’s a new comedy insurgent in town.
I’m being sarcastic, clearly. And sarcasm, as we know, is the lowest form of wit. Apart, perhaps, from going on the BBC to make fun of the Tories. I honestly cannot think of anything more pedestrian and less amusing than that.
Witness the way Lycett kept looking over at Emily Thornberry, the doyenne of bourgeois London leftism
Lycett is being fawned over for his satirical storming of Laura Kuenssberg’s new Sunday morning political show. Boy, he really stuck it to The Man. He pretended to be right wing – what larks! – and said he fully backs Liz Truss. She may be the ‘backwash of the available MPs’, he said, but she always gives ‘great clear answers’.
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