New Year Nish & Frankie

 

Other than talk and issue pleasant-sounding declarations of intent, I wonder what Tim Davie has actually done to tackle bias at the BBC? 

The Mail on Sunday suggests not much on the issue of bias in BBC comedy at least.

It really is striking that at the very moment when the UK finally, fully left the EU - 11pm on New Year's Eve - the BBC gave us The Graham Norton Show, which featured Nish Kumar insulting Nigel Farage (‘not technically a man, just a sack of meat brought to life by a witch’s curse’) and attacking Brexit. 

Meanwhile, Frankie Boyle compares Brexit to cancer on his own New Year's Day BBC show. (‘Having Brexit at the end of a year like this is like finding out your cancer has spread to the walls of your house.’)

What's happened to Frankie Boyle over the years is akin to what happened in the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires. Frankie has castrated himself and become a eunuch at the court of the BBC, living a live of comfort and influence in exchange for his testicles.