MacFarlane brings Blazing Saddles up to our modern disgusting-tolerant standards, filling his Wild West romp with star cameos, wink-heavy comedy and amusing deaths.
Programmes perceived to have a satirical edge, and amiable low-key amusements like The Royle Family, with its classy Woody Allen typeface and studied lack of incident, were always more likely to be nurtured by the broadcasting establishment than a gag-heavy comedy featuring the sexual and toilet neuroses of four self-obsessed New Yorkers.
And besides, if XM is going to start objecting to "deplorable" language, when are they going to remove the explicit language-heavy comedy channel, or the stations that feature all that hip hop with its fine and morally sound depictions of women and society?
During what Madrigal jokingly described as "the heaviest comedy interview of all time," the 45-year-old star also discussed his role in Showtime's upcoming dark comedy "I'm Dying Up Here," and how he's hoping to nurture future Latino stand-up comics. .
This batch is light on sequels, gloomy in spots (as with "The Dark Knight") and heavy on comedies.
"I don't think Peter likes the kind of improv-heavy, nasty comedy that there is so much of these days – and which I'm personally all for, I gotta tell you.
Berry is so perfect for the role it's the only one he ever plays, so fans will be familiar with all the 70s signifiers and heavy-handed comedy sexism.
The line-up at this year's film festival is heavy on comedies – and incendiary documentaries.
Davis has made her last two series the linguistically agile, incest-heavy period comedy Hunderby, and now Camping, about a group of friends celebrating a birthday on a tightly controlled, organized-fun trip for Sky Atlantic, which, you suspect, affords her a bit more freedom to say and do what she wants to.
