The BBC must put an end to the “useful myth” it has cracked down on left-wing comedy, according to the satirist Nish Kumar. It gives the sharks a bit of blood,” Kumar tells the Observer Magazine in a forthright interview today. Comedian and writer Richard Herring was one of many who spoke up for The Mash Report. Kumar was surprised, he tells the Observer, that no BBC denial of the story followed, although he was privately told it was “all nonsense”. Kumar is now asking for a public BBC denial: “There’s an important principle at stake.

Source: The Guardian May 16, 2021 06:45 UTC