14 Problems Only Comedians Will Understand

5. What TV Executives Think Is Funny Is RUBBISH

American Comedy is, by and large, going from strength to strength. The emerging US sitcom style as emulated by 30 Rock, Arrested Development, Parks and Recreation, and Community to name only a few, is so often brilliant.

Everywhere else? Less so. British TV, once the leading light in funny thanks to Blackadder, Fawlty Towers, The Fast Show, The League Of Gentlemen, The Mighty Boosh, is currently going through a comedy slump right now.

So much of it is either panel shows or retrograde mugging-based sitcoms, the worst offenders of which I won't mention for fear of burning bridges. But you know the ones I mean.

There will always be some good comedy somewhere, but the pure amount of tosh on the telly right now is a constant fatigue to comedians, knowing that they may well be plugging away for naught. What is 'making it', if what we end up making is old-fashioned, outmoded tosh?