First let me say although I live in American, I have British blood, and my favorite comedy show on TV Is Jon Oliver (British). I cannot get through one episode without cracking up from shows like "Last Week Tonight", The Daily Show, Bill Maher, Tonight Show with Stephen Colbert, and the new "President Show. I try to never miss any episodes, it's my favorite genre of comedy without a doubt.Knowing this, I thought for sure I was going to going to enjoy "the Fake News Show". I quickly realized this is purely a British comedy show. I've often heard people criticize British comedy for not being funny but never really understood where this came from. I get it now. The Fake news show although I agree with the content and punchlines of most of their jokes. The people on the show and the jokes are simply not that funny. It doesn't help that the audience has a fake sounding laugh every 15 seconds at jokes that are not funny at all. I don't know what it is about British humor that makes it not as funny with the exception of Jon Oliver, which in reality has an American style of comedy just with a British accent. Even he has criticized on the show last year British comedy for not being funny.Anyway, I'm done with this show after episode 2. I think I heard a combination of 120+ laughs from the audience and I wasn't involved in any of them even slightly.

I cannot be alone in being dismayed by the extreme left-wing bias in this program. The Tories are the most popular party in the country, so I assume that the relentless bashing of any view or person who does not subscribe to far-left virtue-signalling must be irritating to others apart from myself. It's not as if the current leadership of the Labour Party doesn't provide a goldmine of potential comedy skits.

The Fake News Show is a current affairs show taking on fake news. Move aside big foot, Angela Merkel as Hitler's love child is taking center stage.It doesn't offer anything new from existing British faux quiz shows like QI, 8 out of 10 Cats, Just a Minute etc. but it can try a whole lot less harder to find the comedy and where it really gets fun is when they take possible strange facts and ask the panel to decide if they're real or not.It's a fun 25 minutes, if you enjoy dry English wit, unless you're entirely too willing to ignore the findings of intelligence agencies in the States around interference in their elections or don't believe the 90%+ of scientists that say global warming is a genuine problem.

I've never written a TV review for IMDb before but Channel 4 has inspired me with this week's program 'The Fake News Show'. I knew in the back of my mind what I'd be getting when I sat down to watch it but even in this age of double-speak I was impressed with how much Channel 4 can distort the facts. Unsurprisingly, the raison d'etre of Channel 4's 'The Fake News Show' was not actually a critical analysis of 'fake news', the catch all term to describe misleading information generated for political gain, but rather a vehicle to disseminate Channel 4's own brand of political spin. Apart from the fact that the program was broadcast on Channel 4, the introduction of the panel of five identikit leftist liberal pundits made it clear that the show would tow the party line. If you didn't catch it, and I don't recommend that you do, the premise is that the panel rake over recent news stories that might be considered to be less than accurate, crack some jokes and have one of the teams win a quiz at the end à la 'Have I Got News for You'. Cue the politically correct virtue signalling and inevitable variety of journalistic strategies employed to create a one sided argument to suit their agenda. Headline fake news stories which one would have thought typified the current epidemic were omitted. While the program focused, unsurprisingly, on attacking Trump and the Republican government of the United States. Fake stories previously distributed by Channel 4 such as 'Martin Luther King bust removed from White House', were not mentioned despite being one of the most highly publicised examples of a fake news story. (The MLK bust never left the White House by the way. It was fake news). Fake news stories purporting to the temporary travel restrictions such as 'Mo Farah banned from U.S.' and stories that were the American equivalent, were never mentioned. (Any journalist could have seen by reading details of the travel restrictions that existing residents like Mo Farah would never be effected. They told you he might be because they were creating propaganda and they were lying to you. It was fake news.) Also no condemnation of fake stories like 'Russians conspiring to hack the American election'. (Another widely reported fake story distributed by news agencies like Channel 4 that were lying to you. It was fake news.) Indeed, not only did the program fail to do what it was supposed to do in identifying and criticising false news it actually went out of its way to spread false news. Mid-way through the program, TV regular Richard Osman, gave an impassioned speech, for which he was actually applauded by his sycophantic cohort, in which he described fake news as being, and I quote; "…generally people in Eastern Europe in the pay of the KGB or various other people who are making up things for clicks, that's what they're doing." Really Richard? Are the KGB making up fake news that they hacked the American election? I don't think they are. Are they making up fake news that they have recorded Donald Trump being urinated on by prostitutes? I don't think they are, are they. In-fact isn't it true that most spun stories are fake news generated by liberal leftists who want to discredit Trump and the Republican government and promote their own political agenda. Unless of course I'm really a KGB agent writing this. The program continued in the vein of a political broadcast, punctuated with anti-Trump jokes which seemed intent on actually propping up completely false news rather than exposing it. Panellists made jokes directly or indirectly at the expense of the American president throughout which were entirely based on false news stories such as, 'Trump being with prostitutes' and 'Trump having women peeing on him'. No mention of the fact that there's no evidence what-so-ever of this. It was around this point that I realised that the title 'The Fake News Show' did not refer to Channel 4 exposing false news but rather the point of the show was to create false news. Why would you expect anything less of the doublespeak channel.