The synopsis to the July 4th edition of the BBC Radio 4 comedy programme ‘Dead Ringers’ includes the following:
“The Dead Ringers team are back to train their vocal firepower on the week’s news with an armoury of impressive impressions.
This week: The Government’s welfare woes, the BBC’s chant chastisement, and Netanyahu, Trump and Putin play Just A Minute.”
That latter item – based on another BBC Radio 4 programme – begins from 10:10.
Presenter: “Welcome to Just A Minute. [music] And as the Minute Waltz fades away, it’s time for our first topic: a sustainable ceasefire anywhere in the world. Paul Merton; can you speak on that subject without hesitation, repetition, deviation, retaliation, reciprocation or provocation?”
A short time after the subsequent monologue begins, listeners hear the sound of an explosion, followed by the presenter saying:
Presenter: “Benjamin Netanyahu, ah, you just took out Paul Merton with a drone. What was the challenge?”
The actor impersonating Netanyahu (with an unrealistic accent) replies “provocation”.
Presenter: “He wasn’t really doing anything provocative.”
Impersonator: “Nonsense. Paul Merton is clearly a Hamas command centre. Just like a hospital or a queue for food.”
Presenter: “Well then, as it’s your first time playing the game, we’ll give you the benefit of the doubt. As will most of the world’s media.”
The sketch continues with impersonations of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. Notably, the BBC’s comedy writers are clearly not ‘edgy’ enough to write scripts including impressions of leaders of Islamist projects such as Hamas or Iran blowing up British comedians.
Comedy is of course first and foremost a matter of personal taste. However, the BBC has a record of promoting embarrassingly underinformed political views under that label:
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While the writers and producers of this sketch may consider it clever to both get a laugh and promote their virtue signalling political views by mocking Israeli operations, the fact remains that there is ample evidence of Hamas using hospitals as command centres.
For those who do not have the luxury of sitting thousands of miles away and writing jokes but rather are on the receiving end of that terrorist organisation’s violence – as well as its groupies’ animosity – such cynical distortions of facts are of course much less of a laughing matter.
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