He spoke to News: “Politics is always volatile, there’s always something going on, and I love the challenge of it.”
While admitting that the election result necessitated some fast rewrites, Forde, who has two plays at the arts festival, says having a Labour administration to mock seems like something of a novelty.
I’ve only really done these shows under a Tory government, so having a new government, a new cast of characters to take the mick out of and lampoon, is a huge relief because going back to the Tory well year after year – as much as I’m grateful to the Tories for writing so much of my material – it’s time for us all to move on.
But is the new prime leader as entertaining to try to impersonate?
“People think [Sir Keir] Starmer is perhaps a bit calmer and that maybe it’s less fun than doing Boris Johnson, but he still has his own characteristics, you know,” according to Forde.
