Scottish - Writer | November 28, 1963 -
The last thing I want to do is use my comedy as a partisan tool or as a method for preaching.
Armando Iannucci
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I hate the idea of labels and saying you are member of one party or another and signing up to all sorts of policies that you don't have a view on or don't believe in. Because I'm not a politician, I don't have to be consistent in what I say and how I behave.
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Governments, whether right or left, have become commissioners-in-chief, nudging and cajoling networks into preferred business models without the slightest sensitivity or awareness of what the public wants or the TV industry is capable of.
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There is still an element of the BBC that feels it is somehow wrong, or it will be open to criticism, if it makes more money.
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Never underestimate the intelligence of the audience; make good programmes, and they will come.
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