As he insists he really is still a leftie

Harry Enfield believes his local police force think he’s a ‘narcissistic wanker’.

In an anecdote shared in a major interview with The Times today, the sketch comic talks about how his son Archie didn’t realise he came from a famous father until he was six years.

It was at that age when he found a video of one of Enfield’s  TV shows and slid it into the machine.

‘I remember it because I’d had my bike nicked and the police came round to interview me,’ the comic recalls. 

‘They saw my kids watching me on TV and obviously thought, "That narcissistic wanker makes his poor children watch his old shows".’ 

In the interview, the 64-year insisted he was ‘still a frightful leftie’ despite being friends with David Cameron and William Hague.

‘I have all kinds of friends because I’m about mischief rather than malice,’ he said. ‘I’m not horrible to anyone whereas more right-on comics are.’

He has attracted the ire of some on the left for being in support of fox hunting and the monarchy as well as some of his old politically-incorrect sketches, such as  blacking up to portray Nelson Mandela as a drug dealer, which he insists was exposing the racist portrayals of black people in the media.

Explaining his politics, Enfield said: ‘Monetarism has fucked the world. It’s made the rich richer and made us all addicted to buying stuff. And if we don’t buy more stuff we go into recession, even though consumption is destroying the world. It’s insane. 

‘I know very rich people who only worry about getting even more money. I’m not one of them. I pay all my tax and I don’t employ clever accountants to get around it. Capitalism is addictive but I’m not an addict. ‘

Enfield was mentioned in Sasha Swire’s 2020 memoir Diary Of An MP’s Wife, emerging from the Cornish sea on his surfboard with Cameron.

Published: 6 Mar 2026