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Speaking at the Slapstick comedy festival in Bristol, where he was given a Legacy Medal, John said: "If you put a script in now it has to go through a f*****g committee who have no idea what they are doing.
"There has been nothing funny since The Office. It is sad and it is because the people in charge have no idea how to make comedy happen.
"The whole process has been replaced by a bureaucratic process which does not begin to work."
John says British comedy now has to be "clean" to appease a modern audience. He says it has now led to a decline in British comedy.