Joke'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.

10 greatest Scottish comedians - and their best gags

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Why Frankie Boyle should not be banned from the BBC

There were calls this week for controversial comedian Frankie Boyle to be banned from the BBC after he cracked a joke about IRA terrorism. Speaking on his BBC Two show, Frankie Boyle's New World Order, Boyle - a favourite of edgy teenagers everywhere - mocked Theresa May's recent attempts to thrash out a Brexit compromise with her cabinet at Chequers. With so many leading Tories in one place, Boyle joked: 'Where the fuck are the IRA when you need them?'

Timed to coincide with the UK's lurch into uncharted territory, courtesy of Article 50 (although an extension remains a distinct possibility at the time of writing), the acerbic comedian returns for a new series that sees him try to make sense of the chaos surrounding Brexit.

TV's most splenetic satirical show returns to pour scorn on that disreputable lot in the Commons. Brexit, inevitably, is set to dominate, but expect a withering dissection of whatever nonsense scandal has bubbled up after we've gone to print as well.

Scotland's funniest 60 people

As the Glasgow International Comedy Festival prepares to launch with a gaggle of giggles later this month, we count down Scotland's funniest 60 people.

This show might represent a bowdlerised Boyle. But even at his mildest, he is a gnarlier proposition than any other comedian who finds his way on to the Beeb these days. Expect his review of the year to be unstinting in its scorn for everything from the British elite to the US president.