Edinburgh comedy notebook: Is the political joke on its way back to power?
Topical material is creeping back on the agenda. Even Tom Rosenthal is getting political " in a gentle sort of wayOne of the eeriest things about the dearth of politics on the fringe these last few years has been not just the absence of political comedians but the absence even of political jokes.The former you could perhaps understand. As the boom in TV standup took hold it was perhaps not entirely surprising to find…