Leo Kearse & Andrew Doyle

Comedian & presenter, playwright & satirist

2024, by any metric, was baffling. And as we march towards 2025, we thought it was only right to look back on the wild year that was. To see off the most scandal-rich year of recent political history, we invited two of our favourite funnymen to reminisce and commiserate with us.

Leo Kearse is a self-described “right-wing comedian”. He's also a GB News regular, where he appears frequently on Headliners and presents his show Saturday Night Showdown. He also hosts his own successful YouTube channel, where he dissects current affairs in his trademark acerbic style.

Meanwhile, Andrew Doyle has established himself as one of the left’s key self-critics, satirising political correctness and identity politics from a left-wing position.
He is the creator of Titania McGrath, has written for Jonathan Pie, and, until last week, he hosted the popular GB News show Free Speech Nation. Today, he’s busy founding a new production company with Rob Schneider and Graham Linehan.

So, what did we talk about? Well, a lot, including but not limited to…