Fawlty Towers star John Cleese has taken a swipe at the BBC by saying its modern executives don't know how to make comedy shows.
He also added that the corporation's bosses have no experience writing and directing series.
Cleese says on Goodbye Television Centre (airing later this month): "The people who became executives (in the 1960s and 1970s) had produced or directed a great deal of comedy.
"Now there seems to be an executive class and they have never written and never directed."
He added: "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?"
The 73-year-old actor recentley married his fourth wife. He tied the knot with Jennifer Wade, 42, on the Caribbean island of Mustique last year.
He also added that the corporation's bosses have no experience writing and directing series.
Cleese says on Goodbye Television Centre (airing later this month): "The people who became executives (in the 1960s and 1970s) had produced or directed a great deal of comedy.
"Now there seems to be an executive class and they have never written and never directed."
He added: "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?"
The 73-year-old actor recentley married his fourth wife. He tied the knot with Jennifer Wade, 42, on the Caribbean island of Mustique last year.
- 3/21/2013
- Digital Spy
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