🎙️ FrankOnTheRadio 'I am utterly fascinated by it' 🎙️ andrewismaxwell 'I'm dining out like a comedy pig in the giant trough that is Brexit' As Brexit looms comedians at edfringe give their take on our exit from the EU
But as debates rage over hard and soft exits, shock general elections and a possible no-dealpushes on with plans for the UK's exit, we ask some of Britain's best loved comedians what they have to say about Brexit."I am utterly fascinated by it. I'll miss Brexit should it ever be completed. I watch just the news for hours, it's never been more interesting and exciting.
"I think Brexit is important, but I think it's high level admin and shouldn't define our happiness. We should have control of our own dials for happiness. Politicians were never meant to provide day to day happiness and euphoria for the population, that's not their gig.""I feel that my role in life is that I'm reasonably politically and socially neutral. I'm sort of left wing the way almost all comedians are but not enough to do an angry Brexit show.
"Because Brexit looms so large in all our lives, you have to find ways to approach it laterally and be talking about it but not talking about it. "I'm a Dubliner, but my mum's side of the family are from Northern Ireland - Ulster the six counties, take your pick. My family are a border family so I have deep personal and financial investments in. The colossal s*** storm that Brexit.
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