The Daily Mail’s front-page tantrum about Joe Lycett got precisely the scorn it deserved – 19 great responses

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The level of hatred the Daily Mail has for the BBC is quite remarkable 😂 https://t.co/SB8shHcT7e

— Dan Walker (@mrdanwalker) September 4, 2022

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And here’s your boiling frog:
paper criticises comedian in a democracy. https://t.co/J4B66nNw9Y

— emily m (@maitlis) September 5, 2022

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When a satirist can skewer the probable next PM merely by repeating what she says, and responding to it with words normally indicative of high praise, you know and I know the problem is with the probable future PM, not the satirist.

And the Daily Mail knows. But pretends not. pic.twitter.com/1qlw7Wsxq2

— Andrew Levi (@AndrewPRLevi) September 4, 2022

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Obviously a ridiculous headline in many ways. But how is @joelycett a "BBC comic"? https://t.co/AenSgzt23f

— Shoaib M Khan (@ShoaibMKhan) September 4, 2022

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the Daily Mail will be furious with the Daily Mail’s sense of proportion pic.twitter.com/zYMepAHZXM

— Toby Earle 🇺🇦 (@TobyonTV) September 5, 2022

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The Daily Mail regularly defends the rights of people including comedians to make offensive comments about LGBTQ+ people (particularly trans), people living with HIV, ethnic minorities etc etc so why is it suddenly wrong and front page news for a Queer comedian to mock a Tory??? pic.twitter.com/Nf393H6NvQ

— Benjamin Cohen (@benjamincohen) September 5, 2022

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‘Stop these comedians mocking our politicians!’ say the same people who’ve spent the past three years bleating about threats to freeze peach. https://t.co/jSq7nHcQgu

— Natasha Devon 🌈💙 (@_NatashaDevon) September 5, 2022

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A comedian has taken the piss out of a high ranking politician.

In my decade and a half, I honestly don’t think I’ve ever seen a worse front page.

The thing with Dacre is that he was insane but was also a kind of genius. This is insane but also just utterly, utterly stupid. pic.twitter.com/HqD9OZY0bD

— Tom Peck (@tompeck) September 5, 2022

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Translation: If you say you're "right wing" and that you thought Liz Truss had been "incredibly clear" in her interview about her plans then you are plainly mocking her, which obviously cannot be permitted on the BBC. Go figure. #MadMalignMail https://t.co/NFluFSEjPM

— Jessica Simor QC (@JMPSimor) September 4, 2022

To put the cherry on the cake, @docrussjackson pointed out this specific irony/hipocrisy (Delete as appropriate).

"'The job of comedy is to offend!' Rowan Atkinson says comedians should be allowed to make jokes about 'absolutely ANYTHING' as he rails against cancel culture." – in the, er, Daily Mail. pic.twitter.com/tLvn85MSye

— GET A GRIP (@docrussjackson) September 4, 2022

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