It is important to remember that Graham Linehan doesn’t even live in the UK any more. So fed up was the creator of Father Ted and The IT Crowd with what he saw as the hostile censoriousness of British show business,

John Cleese, the British comedy legend not known for his diplomacy, has taken aim at the “cowardly” BBC over its reluctance to offend people. In an interview with The Radio Times, the Monty Python and Fawlty Towers co-creator said the BBC is “too influenced by the passion and nastiness of the extremely woke.

“Who are you going to believe … me or your own eyes?”

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John Cleese’s greatest triumph, Fawlty Towers, is still going strong after half a century. So why does he think his former employers have killed comedy?