Politics is now officially funny haha.

The election of a television comedian to be president of Ukraine has opened the door to a new era of leadership candidates. There might be some who would argue that the United States already has a comedian in charge at the White House. But I have to say Trump has never made me laugh. But this new guy in Ukraine is a bundle of laughs, a very slick comic who will no doubt come up with some terrific jokes to help run his country. Volodymyr Zelenskiy wants to be close to Vladimir Putin. Good news for Putin, bad news for Ukraine. But perhaps Zelenskiy was joking when he said that haha! It's going to be a tricky time, trying to decide whether the new Ukrainian president is being serious or laughable. Actually that's pretty like a lot of politicians these days. Well good luck to him I say. His predecessor, Petro Poroshenko, was old-school, pretty grim and by all accounts suspected of being not funny at all. So a comedian in charge in Kiev will bring a little light to the lives of the poor Ukrainians who have suffered from semi-occupation by Russian troops dressed as non-Russian troops - the Little Green Men as they are called because of their green I'm-not-a-Russian-ho-ho-ho uniforms. What's the presidential comedian going to do about them? Do a deal with Putin? Zelenskiy is not alone in having an interesting background before becoming the leader of his country. George Weah, president of Liberia, was a very talented footballer and played for, among others, Monaco, AC Milan, Chelsea and Manchester City. Ronald Reagan was a movie star, and Putin was a lieutenant-colonel of the KGB. He never made it to full colonel which must have made him very very angry, angry enough to become president in order to blow raspberries at everyone. Possibly we in the UK now need a comedian to take over the reins of power. My favourite commedians are Paul Whitehouse of Fast Show fame, Lee Evans, manically funny, and Jack Dee with his deadpan delivery. I'm going to start a campaign!