John Cleese: Execs Keep Mucking Up Comedy
“Fawlty Towers” is, in my humble opinion, the funniest TV comedy series ever, so I had to laugh and cry when its co-creator, John Cleese, (yes, co-creator: I get cross when people forget Connie Booth) gives an interview about suits meddling in the making of comedies today: ‘Now there seems to be an executive class and they have never written and never directed. They seem by some mystical process to understand comedy much better. And now they want to know what is going to be in every programme so that they can say, ‘That won’t work’. On the basis of what?â€
