Can you honestly imagine Lenny Bruce or Bill Hicks submitting to the discipline of the Whips? That was the Right Honourable MP for Ealing North, Stephen Pound, on this evening's PM programme on Radio 4,  once again justifying his status as one of the only contemporary British politicians I'd happily buy a pint for.  Following the news that US satirist Al Franken had been elected as Minnesota Senator, Pound and comedy writer John O'Farrell were discussing whether its possible for a comedian or satirist to become a politician and remain funny.   Pound felt that it was unlikely, partly because a [...]