Laugh or cry?
The farcical state of the left is splitting sides at the Edinburgh Fringe
IT IS a case of bad comic timing. The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, which runs through August, is normally a chance for political stand-up comedians to throw carefully honed jokes to reliably liberal audiences. Yet the speed of events since the June 23rd EU referendum, which triggered a change of prime minister and a leadership contest in the Labour Party, has left comics rewriting shows as they go along. One compares the task to wrestling a lubricated dolphin in a bathtub.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Laugh or cry?”
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