Is British humour the UK's Trump card?
Written by: Jay Richardson
Published: Monday 24th February 2025
Published: Monday 24th February 2025
As the UK looks set to renew greater ties with Europe politically, the soft power of our sense of humour might be our Trump card for the uncertain new world of television and wider cultural exchanges.
A writer like Daran Johnson, from sketch group Sheeps, has worked on four series of the Rose d'Or-nominated, multilingual diplomatic comedy Parlement, a French, Belgian and German co-production set in the European Parliament, acted in three languages and available right across the continent.
Yet scriptwriters need not instantly jump on the Eurostar to Brussels, nor brush up on their Latvian, to get their ideas...
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