Johnny English Is Someone Who Really Means

What Directors Of Television Drama Constantly Tell You Is 'don't Act It. Don't Try. Don't Emphasise That Word'. Whereas With Someone Like Blackadder, Even Though He's A Relatively Low Key Character In A Way, He Did Relish The Lines That He Had And The Words That He Was Given, With A Lot Of Inflection.

[georges] Simenon Could Be Very Brave Like That. You Never Quite Know What You're Going To Get Or How The Story's Going To Be Told.

The Arts Community Still Has A Long Lasting Cynicism Of The Importance, Or The Artistic Value, Of Comedy. Comedy Is Just Farting About For Money.

For Telling A Good And Incisive Religious Joke, You Should Be Praised. For Telling A Bad One, You Should Be Ridiculed And Reviled. The Idea That You Could Be Prosecuted For The Telling Of Either Is Quite Fantastic.

Johnny English Is Someone Who Really Means Well It's Just That He's Not As Good As He Thinks He Is, And I Think That Maybe That's The British Male In A Nutshell.