Brussels comedy - funny and real

SO a satirist is hired to write a sketch for a TV show about the European Parliament. As potential comedy material goes, the parliament isn’t really considered up to much.

Brussels comedy - funny and real

There’s a Dutch MEP whose first name is Joke, but that’s about it. The parliament is Turn-off TV at its finest. Still, the satirist perseveres, and decides to cash in the general air of cynicism about MEPs, their wages, and their workloads.

He writes a sketch where outgoing MEPs offer their advice to newcomers - their top 10 tips, as it were.

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