I believe that British television rests on specific British traditions, and in the first place, that it rests on the literary and dramatic genius of the British people and, secondly, on the sophistication in constitutional matters which you might expect from a country which has been talking itself in and out of trouble, and on the whole succeeding, for a long time.
Huw Wheldon
The truth is that you cannot be memorably funny without at some point raising topics which the rich, the powerful and the complacent would prefer to see left alone.
George Orwell