Leo Kearse
- Scottish
- Stand-up comedian and actor
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Leo Kearse: Cancel culture is a grave threat to comedy
Comedians must be free to outrage and offend.
Leo Kearse, Spiked, 15th July 2021Leo Kearse says he's openly blacklisted for voting Tory
Scottish comic Leo Kearse insisted cancel culture is "absolutely not" a myth, and is causing some artists real harm.
James Bickerton, The Daily Express, 3rd July 2021Leo Kearse polls just 114 votes in election
Leo Kearse polled just 114 votes in yesterday's Scottish Parliamentary election. The comic - who was standing for Laurence Fox's Reclaim Party - won the support of just 0.3 per cent of those who voted in the Glasgow Pollock constituency. He came eighth out of nine candidates, beating only independent Joseph Finnie, and means he loses his £500 deposit.
Chortle, 7th May 2021Leo Kearse: Scotland is becoming a police state
I'm a comedian. I don't want to be a politician. Politics is boring and everyone's ugly. But I have to stand against the SNP's Hate Crime Bill. It could make my job illegal.
Leo Kearse, The Daily Express, 4th April 2021Comedian Leo Kearse to run for Scots Parliament
Award-winning comedian Leo Kearse is to stand for election to the Scottish Parliament in Glasgow, in protest at the SNP's "vague" and "authoritarian" Hate Crime Bill.
British Comedy Guide, 28th March 2021Jim Smith makes The Farm sitcom pilot for BBC Scotland
Comedian and farmer Jim Smith has shot a half-hour sitcom pilot of The Farm, inspired by his working life, after a string of successful shorts on BBC iPlayer.
British Comedy Guide, 1st February 2021Audio: Discussion on impact of cancel culture on comedy
Suchandrika Chakrabarti, Laura Lexx, James Meehan and Leo Kearse talk about 'cancel culture' and its possible consequences for comedy. Discussion starts at 13:52.
The Times, 15th October 2020Kearse: right-wingers like me can't get into woke BBC
Right-wing comedians like me can't get a look-in at the ultra-woke BBC - it's time they supported diversity of opinion.
Leo Kearse, The Sun, 8th September 2020Leo Kearse: I've experienced cancel culture first hand
I'm a comedian and I've experienced the insidious and self defeating effect of cancel culture first hand.
Leo Kearse, Free Market Conservatives, 24th July 2020Is right-wing comedy on the rise?
This year's Edinburgh fringe was full of wokeness jokes from liberal stand-ups as well as a host of conservative comedians who punch down.
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 26th August 2019