Boris Johnson
- British
- Politician and journalist
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Shappi Khorsandi: PM touched me inappropriately too
Shappi Khorsandi has become the latest woman to claim Boris Johnson touched her inappropriately.
Jay Richardson, Chortle, 1st October 2019Stewart Lee: Boris Johnson feels ire of Prometheus
Was the prime minister unwise to compare Brexit to the titan's eternal punishment?
Stewart Lee, The Guardian, 29th September 2019Stage stars review Boris Johnson's debut as PM
Impressionist Jon Culshaw, playwright James Graham, comedian Bridget Christie and critic Mark Lawson on the prime minister's opening week in Westminster.
Jon Culshaw, James Graham, Bridget Christie and Mark Lawson, The Guardian, 6th September 2019Laugh? We could cry
"Voting Conservative is like buying a James Blunt album," the comedian Geoff Norcott is fond of observing. "You know millions of people have done it, but weirdly you never meet them."
The Sunday Times, 11th August 2019Stewart Lee on Boris Johnson
Now every day at Westminster is the Purge, when no politician's behaviour can be judged and all crimes are legal.
Stewart Lee, The Observer, 28th July 2019Clive Anderson interview
Clive Anderson on his solo act, the talk-show encounter that makes him cringe and Boris Johnson.
Adrian Deevoy, Daily Mail, 13th July 2019How Boris became Britain's most successful comedian
On Have I Got News For You, I saw the Conservative frontrunner learn how to joke his way out of trouble.
Dave Cohen, The New Statesman, 18th June 2019Joke's on us if we wring our hands about Jo Brand
While Jo Brand is pilloried for her unwise battery acid gag the ruinous japes of Farage, Johnson and Co go unpunished, writes Dani Garavelli.
Dani Garavelli, The Scotsman, 16th June 2019One Brexit positive? It may make HIGNFY watchable again
The panel show hasn't been funny since at least 2012. But the sheer stupidity and self-destructiveness of our politics may just help it rediscover its bite.
Stuart Heritage, The Guardian, 5th April 2019Boris burqa row - Rowan Atkinson is not the enemy
My own family were exiled from Iran because my father made a joke in a newspaper column, but in very different circumstances. And there are times when a burqa joke is genuinely funny - but not in the case of Boris's.
Shappi Khorsandi, The Independent, 10th August 2018