But in standup, you have the opportunity to be political, if you so choose, and to advance a dialogue about a relevant, topical debate.
It is an open, highly topical debate.
In a statement, a spokesperson for Loose Women said: "Loose Women is a daily talk show centred around topical debate and this discussion, linked to a recent news story, involved a full and frank range of views from the panellists.
Pub?" A spokesperson for ITV's Loose Women said: "Loose Women is a daily talk show centred around topical debate, and this online poll and the discussion on today's Loose Women panel was directly linked to a recent news story".
On 22 October 2009, Griffin took part in the BBC's topical debate programme, Question Time, as a representative of the BNP.
The pope provoked cheers from the crowd, for example, by reminding them that he too was an immigrant and that America was a country built on immigration – another subject of fierce topical debate in the US.
"Frozen" can seem too conscientiously even-handed, in the style of topical debate plays.
We have any number about what one recent press release called the "always topical" debate between science and religion.
"People's appetite for topical debate seems insatiable," says Jeremy O'Grady, co-founder, with John Gordon, of Intelligence Squared, a new debating forum.
Public internet polling to be used to select issues for topical debate while town halls around the country would host debates on local issues.
