Marcus Parks

He was there to welcome visitors, because as if he didn't have enough choice with just the patients and the prisoners at Broadmoor, he would try to entice youngsters visiting relatives at Broadmoor into his caravan, away from the watchful eye of their parents.

Because it's insatiable.

No.

You're right.

Nothing happened with Jim Henson.

Sure.

Well, by 1988, Jimmy Savile had fully integrated himself into the system.

And since he had so many powerful allies in all the right places, regular people caught in the middle truly felt that there was nothing they could do to stop him.

And if you're asking why people didn't just come out and tell the press about Savile's crimes, if you're calling the entire nation of England a bunch of cowards who were too scared to do the right thing, there's actually a pretty good example from 1987 that will show you why it was so difficult for people to come forward and why it was so difficult for the press to report on anything.

See, just before Savile took over Broadmoor, he was very nearly taken down the same way that Bill Cosby fell from grace, at the hands of a comedian.

See, it's sort of forgotten that the whole reason why Bill Cosby's crimes came to light is because one of the guys from our old scene in New York, Hannibal Buress, he had a Bill Cosby bit in his set that went viral.

It was what, like 2014 or something?

Oh yeah.

Like, remember?

Like, it was fucking insane when that happened.

Yeah, and from that one clip of Hannibal that I think, I mean, wasn't it, like, it was taken from the audience, like him doing like an auditorium show or something.

Yeah, and from that, Bill Cosby's entire world fell apart.

Likewise, Jimmy Savile came very close to getting Hannibal'd by a stand-up comedian named Jerry Sadowitz, who recorded a special in 1987 in which he said that Savile only does charity work to gain sympathy for when his pedophile case comes up.

That special, however, was never released, and it was only spiked out of fear that Jimmy Savile would sue for libel.

And this, of course, is the same reason why newspapers declined to print stories about Savile for years on end.