Andrew Neil has complained that the corporation's comedy output is too left wing.
Neil singled out The Mash Report, BBC Two's purile "satirical late" night show, as
"self satisfied, self adulatory, unchallenged Left-wing propaganda.
It's hardly balance. Could never happen on a politics show.
Except this has become a politics show."
The Now Show on Radio 4 is "contrived ideological commentary"
and Have I Got News For You "is on its last legs", Neil said.
"When it comes to so called comedy the BBC has
long given up on balance, on radio and TV. Nobody
seems to care. And I don't want Right-wing comedy,
whatever that is. I'd just like comedy. Which is in really
short supply. On TV and radio," he tweeted.
He dismissed The Mash Report as a "pathetic imitation" of
The Daily Show in the US, hosted by Jon Stewart, who
"was Left-wing but also intelligent".
In his social media spree, Neil also described Channel 4 News
as "the broadcasting arm of the Guardian" and railed
against Bobby Gillespie, the Primal Scream singer who
appeared in a recent edition of Neil's show, This Week.
Neil, 69, is regarded by some as the perfect host for
Question Time, but the job is expected to go to a
younger woman.
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