“The Prince Harry of the TV Royal Family.” That is how BBC comedy boss Jon Petrie characterized his genre competing with the popularity and big budgets of high-end drama, with comedy “having to fight harder than it should for attention, for status and sometimes for survival.” Petrie was opening the annual BBC Comedy Festival in Liverpool as he made the claim that comedy is the “rebel sibling” versus drama. “The Prince Harry of the TV Royal Family if you will,” he joked. “I won’t say who’s Andrew [Mountbatten-Windsor].” Petrie said he therefore “intends to camp outside” new BBC Director General Matt Brittin’s office when he starts next week to “make sure he understands just how vital it is that the BBC keeps backing comedy.” Watch on Deadline While flagging that scripted comedy is “going through a tough patch and has been for a long time,” he said the producers in the room “keep delivering” with breakout hits like Amandaland, just renewed for a third season, and Mackenzie Crook’s Small Prophets, which…