Andrew Neil, the BBC political presenter often accused of right wing bias, has complained that the corporation's comedy output is too left wing.

Neil singled out The Mash Report, BBC Two's satirical late night show, as "self satisfied, self adulatory, unchallenged Left-wing propaganda. It's hardly balance. Could never happen on a politics show. Except this has become a politics show."

The Now Show on Radio 4 is "contrived ideological commentary" and Have I Got News For You "is on its last legs", Neil said.

"When it comes to so called comedy the BBC has long given up on balance, on radio and TV. Nobody seems to care. And I don't want Right-wing comedy, whatever that is. I'd just like comedy. Which is in really short supply. On TV and radio," he tweeted.

He dismissed The Mash Report as a "pathetic imitation" of The Daily Show in the US, hosted by Jon Stewart, who "was Left-wing but also intelligent".

Neil said he has signed up to BBC Sounds, the corporation's rebranded audio service offering access to radio comedies, but uses it to listen to old episodes of The Goon Show and Round The Horne.

The presenter's thoughts on BBC comedy came in a flurry of late night tweets in which he also referred to Carole Cadwalladr, the journalist who exposed the Cambridge Analytica data scandal, as the "mad cat woman" "Karol Kodswallop".