https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Tc6Cb3wHu8

But you do know he was joking, don't you? I mean he may not like the guy, but he wasn't really hoping to see him actually die.

Do you think she had the wit to make an ironic comment? Judging by the clip we saw.

All I've seen about HIGNFY this week is Corbyn supporters slagging David off for being right wing (obviously complete garbage and anybody who even watched this show would realise that). And then Tories saying it's an outrage he wished Cameron dead and he shouldn't be expressing his left wing political views. He literally cannot win and it's a shame because if people just calmed down and enjoyed this show which is about comedy and satire (The dictionary definition - the use of humour, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.) then they might actually have a laugh, you never know.

People are far happier, on the internet, to express faux outrage than to accept reality as it is.

It seems common in recent years for mostly Left wing 'comedians' to think it very funny to wish opponents dead or celebrate their death. Look at some of the comments made when Margaret Thatcher died and some of them still use that when they cannot think of anything more original. I can't remember anyone on the Right who celebrated the death of any senior figures in Labour and actually many did tributes to those arch-Lefties Michael Foot and Tony Benn.

The Corbynistas think most of the Labour party if too far to the right and probably are not sure about whether Lenis, Stalin and Mao were far enough Left!

Where do you stand on the Newzoids sketch where 'Theresa May' said her Tory colleagues would treat Cameron resigning as the public would like to treat him.

Cut to 'May, Davies, Hammond & Boris' flushing ' Cameron' down the toilet!

why ?

For the same reason that the PC police will be after you if you say "actress" these days, I guess.

I don't really care what David Mitchell said - for me the issue was that he was saying too much.

The presenter is supposed to let the guests make the funny remarks and comment on the stories of the week, but Mitchel just took over.

For me this show lost it's appeal years ago, but on a Friday evening there's not much else to watch really so I always try to like it.

It's not really so much to do with who is on the left or the right, rather as to what these people are responsible for. I would have laughed just as much if Cameron's name was swapped out for Blair's.

That's all the fault of the editing of the show. Three hours recording down to 30 minutes.
He can't help it if was the funniest person in the room.

Same reason that words like "authoress" and "sculptress" have fallen out of favour. All to do with gender equality I guess, and the fact that we don't really need gender-specific terms for various occupations.

How about dominatrix?

They haven't fallen out of favour with me and I'm not bothered what any pc twit says.

Ironic that the same people will often complain that there are not enough actresses, authoresses or sculpturesses etc given recognition and want discrimination against male ones.

Well, they've fallen out of favour with female authors and sculptors, and it's surely up to them what they want to be called? This is just about language evolving - no need to play the "pc" card.

Maybe that's one occupation where the customer generally does want to specify gender!

Which people? I've never heard of that happening.

It's up to them what they call themselves, but actress, sculptress, etc are still in common use, despite what you may think.

Actress is probably one of the few gender-specific examples that are still in common use, but when did you last hear usages such as sculptress or authoress? They sound very old-fashioned now.

Barmaid?

Language changes over time. How often do you hear of female pilots being called Aviatrixes these days?

And Waitress perhaps. Gradually being superseded by Bartender and Server.

Or even Bar Steward!