Brexit is the new bawdy, thanks to snowflakes
We went to the pantomime twice this week. Oh no you didn’t! Oh yes we did, et cetera. Thank goodness that particular joke is now behind me (ahem). I haven’t been since I was a child, so was interested to see how this peculiar British custom had aged – especially after Christopher Biggins announced that “snowflakes” were ruining panto because they are so easily offended by the sight of a man looking up a woman’s skirt. (This particular gag has been cut from a production of Dick Whittington at the London Palladium.)
Thankfully, neither of the productions we went to contained scenes of light sexual harassment. Indeed, theatre companies seem to have replaced the lewd jokes with ones about Brexit and Theresa May, much to the joy of all the parents. Could it be that Brexit is the new bawdy when it comes to panto?
It’s certainly something to think about for the likes of Nigel Farage, moaning this week that he is “skint” and that “there’s no money in politics”. Perhaps next year, someone could help by casting him as Widow Twankey.