Telling people how to be creative is easy - being creative is difficult.
Tension is wonderful for making people laugh.
English television from the Fifties to the Nineties was the least bad in the world, and now it's just as bad as it is anywhere.
No hope for planet at all. But I will be gone before the planet is gone, so it's your problem.
Comedy always works best when it is mean-spirited.
You go in and meet the head of BBC One and get an assurance about not dumbing down. And then, of course a few months later, he's been replaced by someone you haven't met.