What a joke. Politicians complaining about being the butt of jokes, that is.
Leading Tories have been accusing the BBC of bias, pointing in particular to the satirical Radio 4 show The News Quiz.
Oh, grow up.
Lampooning those in power is as old as the hills and if those in power can't take it, they are in the wrong profession.
Of course the Government gets it in the neck. That's because it's the Government.
Also once you've portrayed Sir Keir Starmer as dull and boring the joke has run its course with nowhere else to go.
There is something the aggrieved could do. They could sue. All the best with that. Defaming somebody as part of a joke is not a defence, but you tell the libel juries that.
Funnily enough, despite traditionally being leading critics of the libel laws some journalists are quite quick to sue.
Take poor Derek Jameson, who really should have known better.
Derek was a former Fleet Street editor who spoke with a Cockney accent and was dubbed "Sid Yobbo" by Private........