I don't think so, he seemed to hit right about the time Operation Yewtree began, it's almost entirely a British sense of humour that he's drawing to, and the majority of people I know, despite the atrocities of what Savile did, seem to find it hilarious that everybody knew he was a blatant pedophile, but nobody did a thing.
> the majority of people I know [..] seem to find it hilarious that everybody knew he was a blatant pedophile
I'm not sure hilarious is the correct emotional response here.
By excluding the last part, after the comma (but nobody did a thing), it's out of context. The red-tape and bureaucracy and cowardliness and bumbling of the BBC is what we find funny, it's pretty standard for the organisation as a whole. There's definitely no excusing the actions of those who failed to act, and that's definitely unfunny.