Perhaps you are unaware that they both have good degrees from a top English university, spent some of their youth involved in comedy, (very succesfully) and, in some of their cases have gone back to writing and research. Plus everyone is entitled to express their political beliefs. Isn't that why we're in the current mess in Iraq - trying to enforce that right on the local populace. You could also argue who gives a shit about the political or religious beliefs of washed up folkies but they all inflict them on us.