Jim Davidson Makes An Anti-Woke Panel Show With 'No Snowflakes Allowed'

Comedian Jim Davidson has announced he’s making an all-new panel show called Left, Right & Centre, and ‘snowflakes’ won’t be allowed in the audience. 

Explaining that the show will be strictly ‘anti-woke’, Davidson revealed the programme’s format will be similar to Question Time’s.

The show is set to be recorded this month at Dorset’s The Tivoli Theatre before airing on Davidson’s streaming platform Ustreme.

Stand-up comedian Miles Crawford will be on hosting duties and other comedians set to appear include Samantha Day, John Moloney and Danny Posthill.

Announcing the news to the British Comedy Guide, Davidson said: “Everyone is getting bored of having to be PC all the time or everything being ‘woke’, so we thought we'd create a panel show where we can debate and talk about the craziness of the world and say it exactly how it is.

“We need people who can laugh at jokes like grown-ups used to do and not get offended because someone has a different opinion. It'll be like the good old days.”

He added: “No snowflakes allowed in the audience, though!”

Davidson’s insistence on ‘not getting offended by differing opinions’ comes six months after he stormed out of a racism debate with Ashley Banjo.

In October, Banjo’s documentary Ashley Banjo: Britain in Black and White aired on ITV to mark Black History Month. 

The dancer sat down with Davidson, who previously criticised Diversity’s BLM dance on Britain’s Got Talent in 2020.

In a YouTube video - which was titled 'Who needs Diversity?' - Davidson branded the dance routine 'ridiculous' and 'indulgent'.

In a bid to better understand the motivation behind Davidson's video, Banjo invited the comedian to have a discussion about race for his documentary.

Banjo said: "As far as I'm concerned, that video you made... It was racist in every way, in every single way. It was personal and racist. I'm from this country, I love this country, I'm from a mixed race background."

But Davidson insisted race hadn't motivated his comments, going as far as to say he believed Diversity's dance actually 'diffused' tensions.

He said: "You should know that I believe the outcome from that dance is more than your wildest dreams.

"People in this country who are frightened, old white people if you like, like me, are thinking there's riots going on in Brixton, in south east London where I grew up, there's stuff going on in America that's very unsavoury, everyone's frightened.

"You diffused that. People are supporting you of all different races, I support Black Lives Matter, I don't support Black Lives Matter the movement, I support the statement. You've won me over."

Putting his foot in it, Davidson then added: "You did a dance about a crime - a terrible crime - but ignored all the other crimes that are committed by Black people because even to report it seems racist."

Banjo replied: "No, what's racist is when you use their skin colour as a reason for crime. Why was his colour relevant?"

At one point, Davidson told Banjo: "Can't you see how stupid you're looking?"

Keeping his cool, Banjo responded: "That is symbolic of ethnic minorities being oppressed for hundreds of years. It's a different thing."

Soon after, Davidson starting sitting up and took off his microphone.

In an attempt to persuade him to stay, Banjo - who followed him down the stairs - said: "I'm only talking about the things you've said. Your video is proof of what I did that routine for. It's proof of the racism that's alive and well."

Left, Right & Centre is filming on 25 April, as well as the 3rd and 4th May at the Tivoli Theatre.