Great comedy offends people and the BBC’s too terrified to make it, writes LAURENCE MARKS
For the past 40 years, I’ve taken television rather seriously. Week by week, I went through my copy of the Radio Times with a pen, circling the programmes I wanted to watch, often scribbling notes. However, these days I can scarcely be bothered, so woefully unimaginative are the offerings from the two principal broadcasters and, … Read more