British Comedy Is “Prince Harry Of The TV Royal Family,” Jokes BBC Comedy Chief Jon Petrie

“The Prince Harry of the TV Royal Family.”

That is how BBC comedy boss Jon Petrie characterized his genre competing with the popularity and big budgets of high-end drama, with comedy “having to fight harder than it should for attention, for status and sometimes for survival.”

Petrie was opening the annual BBC Comedy Festival in Liverpool as he made the claim that comedy is the “rebel sibling” versus drama. “The Prince Harry of the TV Royal Family if you will,” he joked. “I won’t say who’s Andrew [Mountbatten-Windsor].”

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