Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4
Feb 20, 2026 · 28 min · 19 segments
This week the panel discuss PM Keir Starmer fighting off a potential coup; whether it’s a good idea to take Valentine’s day tips from a two-timing Norwegian athlete; and after 40 days of rain in some…
Andy ZaltzmanHost
Rachel FairburnGuest
Alasdair Beckett-KingGuest
Mhairi BlackGuest
Stephen BushGuest
Uh, Keir Starmer, the, let me just check the latest on the internet, Prime Minister, uh, [audience laughs] said that he will never do what?
Is it give you up, let you down, [audience laughs] run around and desert you?
Is it anything for love? [audience laughs] 'Cause if I understand it correctly, Starmer's position is that he would not do anything for love, but he will do that.
I think this is what I admire about Keir Starmer, to be honest, in that part of his problem is that he's someone who, faced with, I was about to say pressure, any conversation at all, basically like, [audience laughs] "What, what can I promise to this person to make them go away? Doesn't matter if it's incompatible with the last thing I promised someone to make them go away." And, uh, now he's in government, and those various promises are coming home to roost, which is why he's under pressure.
[audience laughs] He, even if, I mean, let's imagine that he were to turn it around and the, he would, were to become a successful prime minister shortly after we start using flying cars.
[audience laughs] Um, he will at some point stop being prime minister, right? He is at some point going to walk away.
And in an odd way, it's kind of endearing, [audience laughs] the kind of like, you know, like, like the gambler in the casino.
Uh, Keir Starmer, the, let me just check the latest on the internet, Prime Minister, uh, [audience laughs] said that he will never do what?
Is it give you up, let you down, [audience laughs] run around and desert you?
Is it anything for love? [audience laughs] 'Cause if I understand it correctly, Starmer's position is that he would not do anything for love, but he will do that.
I think this is what I admire about Keir Starmer, to be honest, in that part of his problem is that he's someone who, faced with, I was about to say pressure, any conversation at all, basically like, [audience laughs] "What, what can I promise to this person to make them go away? Doesn't matter if it's incompatible with the last thing I promised someone to make them go away." And, uh, now he's in government, and those various promises are coming home to roost, which is why he's under pressure.
[audience laughs] He, even if, I mean, let's imagine that he were to turn it around and the, he would, were to become a successful prime minister shortly after we start using flying cars.
[audience laughs] Um, he will at some point stop being prime minister, right? He is at some point going to walk away.
And in an odd way, it's kind of endearing, [audience laughs] the kind of like, you know, like, like the gambler in the casino.
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Starmer’s Impossible Promises
Let’s unpack Starmer’s latest pledge.
Parliament Is Mean Girls
Inside Parliament’s surprisingly high-school cafeteria.
Lunch As A Weakness Signal
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