Ben Elton doesn’t have much praise for Rishi Sunak, but he is happy about one decision the prime minister has made – calling an election before he goes on tour. The comedian and writer, who spent much of the 1980s railing against the Thatcher government, heads back out on the road in September when it’s likely that Labour, the party he’s long supported, will be in power. His tour show, , uses the hook of the rise of artificial intelligence to reflect on society’s idiocy in letting the world get to the state it’s in.
And, while politics will undoubtedly be in his sights, he’s glad it’s long after all the ballots have been counted. ‘I’m glad it’ll be over’ “I really don’t want a distraction like the election,” he said. “You can do three jokes on their personalities.
But I mean, we all know. I’ve got so much material I want to talk about. “I’d rather do that and give people a lovely night where we all share our common humanity than beat myself up trying to think of something about what Sunak’s said on the news yesterday.
I’m quite glad to not feel the obligation of talking about it.” In recent years, a point often made is that real-life politics has become ever more farcical and often outpaced satire. “It’s difficult, post-truth and in a world of show-boating clowns,” Ben said.
“Boris Johnson and Donald Trump between them set a bar so disgustingly, despicably low for self-interest, narcissism, sociopathy. “Trump has made a wo.
