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Who's laughing now? Cancel culture is killing comedy

17 November 2020

2:17 AM

17 November 2020

2:17 AM

The BBC and Channel 4 are self-censoring their comedy output because they are so terrified of offending people. So says Jimmy Mulville, the producer of Have I Got News For You, who claims ‘cancel culture’ has resulted in a fearful atmosphere in these institutions:

‘People who cause offence now can be cancelled.

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Patrick West is a columnist for Spiked and author of Get Over Yourself: Nietzsche For Our Times (Societas, 2017)


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