Paul Merton and Ian Hislop are team captains on Have I Got News For You, which has its 30th anniversary this yearIt is one of the institutions of BBC comedy, which not for the first time in its life has been in the firing line this week for being too left-wing. Now the boss of Have I Got News For You has stepped up to say that the problem is not bias on the show, it is the lack of right-wing comedians. Richard Wilson, the head of comedy at Hat Trick Productions, is scathing about “woke” culture NOT KNOWNWhile they often have right-wing columnists on the programme, he says the issue is not that they aren’t funny. It is that they tend to get into rows with other panellists, generating a lot of heat but not many laughs. Richard Wilson, the show’s executive producer and head of comedy at Hat Trick Productions, is the least likely man in television to be pushing

Source: The Times September 04, 2020 16:12 UTC