So in the past week I've been to three comedy gigs, including a charity do last night at the Palladium which had a number of acts. All of the shows were Big Names.
I can't believe how many of them are still using BREXIT as the basis for a reasonably significant part of their set. The stance generally hasn't moved on much since I last comedy-binged in Edinburgh shortly after the vote, of generally being supportive of Remain and sometimes unkind about Leave and its supporters. They must immediately lose 52% of their audience surely?
Certainly Nish Kumar was heckled for it last night and someone started on one of the others but thought better of it, probably recalling the loud support of Nish's putdown on the heckler.
Maybe the audiences are predictably Remain-heavy. Just as they are largely white (as Nish pointed out!).
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