Political comedy used be an orthodox, tub-thumping affair. Today, it's a far subtler art, with Nish Kumar, Sheeps, Stewart Lee and Ahir Shah all reinventing the form You can tell plenty about the state of a nation from its comedy. Throughout the noughties, live comedy was by and large uninterested in politics. Yes, the Marks (Thomas and Steel) plugged away, and Jeremy Hardy carried on doing his thing. But that just s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48AM on August 28, 2015