Nigel Farage’s not happy with ‘over-paid, left wing comedians at the BBC’ – our 5 favourite replies

John Plunkett. Updated June 13th, 2019

It’s not just Jo Brand who Nigel Farage isn’t happy with after she made a joke on a Radio 4 show about swapping milkshakes for battery acid.

No, it’s the ‘overpaid, left wing, so-called comedians on the BBC who think their view is morally superior’. The whole lot of them!

I am sick to death of overpaid, left wing, so-called comedians on the BBC who think their view is morally superior. Can you imagine the reaction if I had said the same thing as Jo Brand? pic.twitter.com/hCEFSCqMGI

— Nigel Farage (@Nigel_Farage) June 13, 2019

And it prompted a whole bunch of replies, some of them from the very overpaid so-called comedians Farage was talking about. Here are our 7 favourites.

You did say much the same thing, you utter hypocrite – you threatened to "pick up a rifle". Spare us the faux outrage already. https://t.co/8ZxiZ1GGWe

— Steve Peers (@StevePeers) June 13, 2019

I invented Heresy, the @BBCRadio4 Show in question here, and hosted it for four series. And I can promise everyone that the one thing so-called comedians on it are not is overpaid. https://t.co/E1xxDo2Zim

— David Baddiel (@Baddiel) June 13, 2019

Calm down mate, you’re sputtering like a faulty plane engine. https://t.co/9ES8kJVX8R

— Neil Gibbons (@neilgibbons) June 13, 2019

If a couple of hundred quid is 'overpaid', Nigel's needs are a lot more modest than I had realised… https://t.co/TSa8GgglgQ

— Katy Brand (@KatyFBrand) June 13, 2019

where are the inverted commas around comedian? 6/10 https://t.co/c92WO1YkW5

— Al Murray THURSDAY:WIMBORNE (@almurray) June 13, 2019

Or if you prefer it NSFW.

Read this. It’ll relieve your pain. pic.twitter.com/EhMf79LHUS

— Brian Tweedale (@BrianHTweed) June 13, 2019