Art & Creativity Quote by Rory Bremner

There is a quiet flex tucked inside Bremner's modesty: TV is his hard mode. The line sounds like a breezy preference, but it’s really a calibration of labor and legitimacy in a comedy economy that often treats broadcast work as either glamorous or disposable. By calling TV "demanding to write and perform", he’s puncturing the fantasy that comedians simply riff and coast. For an impressionist and satirist like Bremner, "demanding" also implies a double workload: the writing has to land as comedy and as commentary, while the performance must deliver accuracy, speed, and an almost journalistic responsiveness to the news cycle.

"I'm much more used to" reads like a veteran's shrug, but it signals professional identity. He's not positioning himself as a club comic chasing spontaneity; he's a craftsman shaped by formats with brutal deadlines, committees, and the invisible hand of producers. That’s the subtext: TV doesn't just test jokes, it tests diplomacy. You’re writing into a machine that wants broad appeal, legal safety, and brand coherence, then performing as if it’s all effortless.

The payoff is in "very fulfilling" - a neat little rebuttal to the idea that television is creatively flattening. Fulfillment here is audience scale and cultural placement: the peculiar satisfaction of watching satire become part of the week’s shared conversation, even when the conditions are punishing. Bremner is arguing, politely but firmly, that constraints can be a creative accelerant, not a muzzle.