"(BRIAN ALEXANDER) It's a big hit on BBC 3 and tonight the surreal sketch show "Little Britain" is launched on BBC 2 where it will unleash its line-up of grotesque characters." "It's one of the funniest new shows around and its creators are Matt Lucas and David Walliams." "Delightful to have you in the studio." "Where the hell do you get this stuff from?" "Some of it IS grotesque, some of it is surreal and, in the traditions of great British comedy, it makes your toes curl." "(DAVID) It all comes out of our heads, Brian, but before we start writing we always watch "Kilroy" and "Trisha", and I think there are people on those shows who are more grotesque and bizarre than us." "(BRIAN) Vicky Pollard." "Where did you get that from, Matt?" "(MATT) Well, Vicky Pollard, I should explain, is a teenage delinquent girl." " She is awful, isn't she?" " She's about 14 and talks ten to the dozen." ""Yeah, but no, but yeah, but no, there was this thing." "Shut up!"" "And we got this... the idea..." "Em, to cut a long story short, when I was at Bristol University," "I made, with two or three other people, a documentary called "How Are You?"." "It's just six minutes long." "We went up to Broadmead Shopping Centre and went up to people and said, "How are you?" and we filmed their responses." "And there was this young..." "It was a boy." "And I said, "How are you?"" "He sort of went, "Like, fine or something." I said, "Do you mind me asking you that?"" ""Sort of, like, yeah, but I don't know or something." I showed David this clip." "We were just talking about, yeah, doing a character who was the least articulate person in Britain." "Then we thought, "Why is this person so inarticulate?"" "If it's a teenage girl who's committed loads of crimes and always done things wrong, she's always put on the spot and that is why she's stammering." "(DAVID) There's a Vicky on every street corner, outside every off-licence or shopping centre or swimming pool." "The most terrifying people in the country, I think, are girls of about that age." ""Wot you lookin' at?" "!" You know. "Nothing!" "Don't kill me!"" " (BRIAN) I've one at home, not quite like that." " She will be." " There are moments." "Was it hard to do Vicky?" " Yeah." " The speed of it is amazing." " Yeah." "(DAVID) We take a lot of care to write all the dialogue, so it's not just gobbledygook." "She's talking about the people she knows and we try to create a world for her, so it is actually very detailed, very hard to learn." "One paper said you were nearly reduced to tears." " (MATT) Absolutely." " (DAVID) I was reduced to tears!" "(MATT) Very emotional." "Yeah, yeah, it just takes lots of goes." "I think when we bring out a DVD maybe we'll have a little featurette of me throwing tantrums trying to get it right." "There's plenty!" "(BRIAN) I think this will be a huge success." "In digital terms, it already has been on BBC 3." "If there's anything going to be spawned from this as separate shows, it could be Vicky." "Also, it could be Emily Howard." "Want to tell us about Emily Howard, David?" "(DAVID) Well, it's me dressed as a lady." "There's a lot of that in this show." "We just wanted to come up with a character of a transvestite who kept giving himself away." "The first thing he always says is, "I'm a lady." "I'm Emily Howard." "I'm a lady."" "That's kind of what gives him away, other than the Adam's apple and big hands." "If you wander round the park on a Saturday afternoon and you happen to see a transvestite, you can tell from a very long distance because they are wearing bonnets and lace gloves and they're dressed in a bizarre, over-the-top ladylike way," "in a way that women haven't dressed for about 100 years." "That's the observation." "This show started off on Radio 4 and for us it was so much fun... (BRIAN) How the hell, though, do you transfer radio onto telly?" "(DAVID) Well, we were lucky." "Somebody who was a fan of the show on radio who was determined to help us get it onto TV and directed the pilot was Graham Linehan who you may know as the writer of "Father Ted" and "Black Books"." "And input from "The League of Gentlemen"?" "Yeah, well, Graham did the pilot with us and really got us going on TV, but he said, "I've no time to do the series."" "Then when we came to do the series, we were very lucky to get Steve Bendelack, who directed "League of Gentlemen" and "Royle Family", to make it look brilliant." "Do you know the photographer Martin Parr?" " No." " He's this brilliant photographer." "His work is up in the Tate Modern and he takes pictures of British life and sort of celebrates them." " What, warts and all?" " Yeah, seaside scenes or whatever." " (MATT) Quite kitsch and gaudy." " (DAVID) They're grotesque and beautiful." "That's the tone we wanted." "Steve Bendelack is a real artist as a director." "We looked at a lot of these photographs." "And then Mark Gatiss, from "League of Gentlemen", he's our script editor." " There is that feel to it." " (MATT) There is." "What we wanted to do - talking about transferring it from radio to TV - was to" " I hope this doesn't sound too strange - was to try and create a show that had as much visual pleasure as verbal." "(DAVID) We wanted a show that if you switched on for 30 seconds, you'd know it." "You had that with "The Royle Family" and with "The Office"." "(MATT) And a show that you wouldn't necessarily be able to spot had begun on radio." "We wanted the radio show to be very much a radio show and the TV show a TV show." "(BRIAN) Let's hear some of it." "Have we a clip?" "(TOM BAKER) If you're thinking of going on holiday and the Arctic is fully booked, why not try Scotland?" " (WOMAN) The soup is very good." " (MAN) I assume freshly made on the premises." " Enjoying your stay?" " Er, yes." "Very much." "We were just saying how much we liked the soup." "Did you make it?" "Maybe I did and maybe I didn'tl" "(PLAYS PAN PIPES)" "Well, er..." " Did you?" " Ye-e-e-esl" "It's delicious." "We'd love to be able to make it ourselves." "You'd like to know ma secrets, would you?" "(PLAYS PAN PIPES)" " Well, yes." " Have ye ever heard of a thing called... butter?" " Yes." " Gold in colour and slippery to the touch." " (BRIAN) Well, that goes on." " (DAVID) And on and on!" " Is that Ray McCooney?" " Yeah." "Matt named him." " Of Ye Olde Hotele." " We tried to think of a Scottish name." "We like the name "Ray Cooney", so we put a "Mc" in there!" "(MATT) We should explain, he's playing the flute." "It's not just a sound effect." "He's a character who's trying..." "He's a hotelier and he's deliberately trying to create a kind of mysticism" " about very mundane things." " Like a tomato." "(DAVID) Yeah." "Have you ever heard of the seeded fruit that is often mistooken for a vegetable?" " Yes, the tomato." " They call it... the tomato!" "He goes on like that." "A total time-waster and really annoying." "That sort of developed along from the radio." "We even did that in the pilot." "We didn't broadcast it because we didn't get it quite right." "It's interesting, these challenges." "When we did it on the pilot, he had little pointy elf ears." "Then we realised that was far too much." "It was great to have the opportunity to start again." "(BRIAN) Where did you get your guy, Matt, in the wheelchair?" "I mean, that might upset somebody, actually." "I'm not sure if that sketch might." "(MATT) It might upset people who like comedy!" "(DAVID) It upset me!" "(MATT) Basically, we used to do this show called "Rock Profile"" "where we'd do what has been now termed unimpressions... (DAVID) Not by us - by other people who saw our impressions!" "(MATT) We deliberately tried to not be like them sometimes." "And we had this sketch of Lou Reed and Andy Warhol." "We imagined them living together." "(DAVID) Andy was a guest in Lou's house and this is how I did Lou Reed:" " (LISPS) Andy, what'll you have for your lunch?" " Chips." "Then you can't have chips for your tea." " What'll you have for your tea?" " Er, chips." " No, not if you have them for your lunch." " Yeah, I know." "(DAVID) So we got into a kind of vibe with that and thought, "We should do more with that."" "We developed this whole scenario where I was his carer and he was in a wheelchair." "It all happened very organically." "We are getting texts from people who have seen BBC 3." "Is it right to make sketches about people sitting in wheelchairs?" "(DAVID) Well, no, it isn't." "He doesn't need to be in a wheelchair." "That's what we're getting at, really." "Andy is incredibly lazy and just likes being pushed around." "We wouldn't joke about disability." "We don't have any kind of, em any prejudices about anybody." "(MATT) He's just a very lazy character with a friend who mollycoddles and cares for him." "He rather enjoys that." "So we do that panto trick where whenever the friend turns the back, we see Andy get up, and then we play that game throughout the series." "We do more and more remarkable things." "He'll jump off a diving board." "(DAVID) We want him to do a massive ice-skating jump." "It's not funny if he needed the wheelchair." "(MATT) It's a bit like panto. "It's behind you!" It's what he can't see, but you the viewer can." "(BRIAN) It looks great fun to make." "I'm sure it's hard work to get it spot-on." "(DAVID) It is hard work, but some of the show is recorded in front of an audience." " So how did that work?" " We film the stuff on location first and then play that to the audience on the night and do sketches in front of them." "Those nights are a lot of fun." "They're the real reward." "You work with lots of cameras, so you don't have to do the sketches so many times." "And the thing about comedy is that all comedy is a punt." "We don't know whether it will work." " So it's not canned laughter?" " No." "(MATT) Sorry to interrupt, but I think it also fashions how you write." "When we used to write "Rock Profile", we'd write in a certain way that we'd be a bit obscure and a bit indulgent." "And that was fine because that was a show that was on late-night on a cable TV station." "Probably the audience were looking for something like that, but here we are writing for BBC 2, 10pm, relatively prime time, so we actually try to write jokes." "(DAVID) If you're in front of an audience of 500, 600 people, you don't want people to go, "Uh, was that it?" You want them to laugh at the end." "So it really did sharpen us up." "And we love "The Two Ronnies" or "French and Saunders"." "A lot of comedy has gone very naturalistic, like "The Office" and "Phoenix Nights", but we were determined to have a little spirit of "The Two Ronnies" or "Morecambe and Wise"." "(BRIAN) Well, it works, and if you'd like to speak to David and Matt, 0500909693." "We've got lots of texts - 85058." "And you can e-mail mayo@bbc.co.uk. Jo's got a few there." "(JO) A couple of e-mails." "This is from Simon Lacey." ""Congratulations on " Little Britain", the funniest show I've seen for years." ""My wife and I have been crying with laughter at it on BBC 3 and will watch again on BBC 2."" "And this is from Kevin. "The guy in the wheelchair really taking the mickey" ""out of his friend/helper, it's the funniest sketch I've seen in ages." ""It's genius." "Thanks, guys." What time's it on?" "(MATT) Thanks, Mum, for sending those." " (BRIAN) It's on at 10pm, BBC 2." " Oh, great." "I'll be back in time." "(BRIAN) It's the number two button, or 102." "It's easier to find, anyway, BBC 2." "Matt Lucas and David Williams - Walliams, I'm sorry." "I knew I'd say that once." "The creators and stars of "Little Britain"." "It gets a good run-out on BBC 2 this evening." "We've got a text here from Patrick who asks what I was going to ask next." ""Inspired choice to get Tom Baker to do the voiceover." "Whose idea was that?"" "(DAVID) We had a shortlist of three people and Tom was top of the list." "The other people were Harold Pinter, who I imagine would have probably said no!" " Probably, yeah!" " And the third person... (MATT) Was Mr Bronson from "Grange Hill", the actor Michael Sheard, who we grew up watching." "Tom Baker..." "David's a very big "Dr Who" fan." "(DAVID) I was a massive fan." "I still am, to some extent." "He did cast an amazing spell over me." " Really?" " Completely." "I was totally obsessed with him." "And it's kind of funny." "When we work with him now, he'll talk about "Dr Who"" "unless you ask him about it." "If you sort of ask him..." "I did a "Randall and Hopkirk" with him and he said, "We filmed in a country house like this." ""It used to belong to Mick Jagger." I said, "Yes, Pyramids of Mars, 1976."" "And he suddenly clammed up because he knows I'm a massive fan." "But, yeah, he's brilliant." "We put these words into his mouth that are pompous and absurd and he is the only person who can really deliver that." "(MATT) He has an age and an authority that we can't bring to the show." "(DAVID) He's also a great comedian." ""Dr Who" is virtually a comedy show." "You can remember him in " Life and Loves of a She-Devil" and " Blackadder Il"." "Just an extraordinary comedian." "And he added lots of lines of his own to our script." "(BRIAN) Simon in Somerset asks me to ask Matt if Chumley will return." "Your first character, Sir Bernard." "(MATT) Sir Bernard Chumley." "Thank you." "He's in "Little Britain", I'm delighted to say." "There are eight episodes and he's in three of them." "It's quite weird, actually." "We did a series called " Sir Bernard's Stately Homes" and we sort of struggled because he's such a live creation, and because that was the character I was doing live, we'd do shows together, me and Dave," "almost any material, any joke, you'd fashion into Chumley's voice, make him say them, but you need to be a lot stricter in a sketch show." "Every character must only have a certain view and, in a way, Chumley was too broad." "So we started again and we created a scenario where Chumley was a bit of a fish out of water." "He's living in high-rise council flats and we gave him a sister, who you never see, who's an invalid and there's a suggestion that he might have caused her accident." "(DAVID) Like "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?"" "(MATT) They were child actors together." "It brought a bit of pathos to it as well." "It was really good fun to perform that character again." "(BRIAN) And Marj Dawes is in it, in a slightly different form." "A sort of Fat Club thing." "(MATT) It's a Weight Watchers take-off called FatFighters." "Again, the character has come a long way from "Shooting Stars"." "Writing together, it kind of becomes like a new character." "She's obviously a little overweight herself." "Congratulations to the make-up department for their fabulous prosthetic stomachs, which, funnily enough, I am still wearing." "Very convincing." " (DAVID) Didn't think of taking it off?" " No!" "(BRIAN) There is some Reeves and Mortimer in this." "They've influenced you, Matt." "David?" "(DAVID) I was watching "Big Night Out" last night, which was their first show for Channel 4." "I remember being at university and watching their show and it was the show that made me think," ""This is what I want to do." I was thinking, "Am I an actor?" "Do I want to be a comedian?"" "That show totally convinced me." "They have a style of their own which I don't think you can attempt to emulate." "But their sense of fun we've picked up on." "(BRIAN) You have to have confidence for that." "(MATT) As Dave said before, all comedy is a punt." "What we tried to do with "Little Britain", there are eight episodes, that's four hours." "We wrote six hours' worth of stuff, in the knowledge that some of it wouldn't work when we showed it to our producer and director, so we filmed a bit more." "That gives you confidence." ""This doesn't have to work."" "(BRIAN) If there's something you both feel really passionately about, you really want in, and the script editor says, "No," who wins that debate?" "(DAVID) We had these great, very helpful script discussions - me, Matt, Mark Gatiss, the script editor, and Myfanwy Moore, the producer." "Generally, there wasn't too much disagreement, but we'd bring our material out, we'd all look at it together and then, most of the time, there was a good feeling or a bad feeling." "(MATT) We're not those people who get in a director and then direct them or get in a producer and produce them." "We get people to work with us that we really like and respect." "(DAVID) Like Mark Gatiss. " League of Gentlemen" is a fantastic piece of work." "We respect him greatly, so that's why we asked him." "He's done it." "(MATT) He has no agenda." "He's done it." "(DAVID) And I think we know ourselves." "When we're writing and both laughing, we know it's going to be good." "(BRIAN) Were you disappointed that "Rock Profile" didn't go mainstream?" "(DAVID) We're surprised by the success of it!" "We did it incredibly cheaply for UK Play." "We filmed two episodes in a day." "It was just me and Matt in costume and make-up with Jamie Theakston." "That's all it was." "And playing pop videos." "And it got repeated and got written about and shown on BBC 2, which we never expected it to do, and it still gets mentioned now." "So that it was even a cult success completely takes us by surprise." "We're always being asked to do awards ceremonies." "We did the Brits this year." "I think it's something we'll return to, maybe in a couple of years, when new pop stars have emerged and there's some new people to... to..." "I was gonna say a rude word!" "...take the mickey out of." "(BRIAN) The actual writing process, do you sit in a darkened room, a pub?" "(DAVID) We sit in a lighted room." "It's easier to see the page!" "(MATT) We are quite disciplined about it." "We do work Monday to Friday, 10 to 5." "We bring ideas with us separately, but everything in the show is written up together." "That's how we work." "I'll do the typing and David will do the dictating and we drink copious amounts of peppermint tea, but we don't write it down the pub." "We would just be drunk." "(BRIAN) There is this great skill." "One of them is after-dinner speaking." "I've seen people who have shown me a script and I thought, "There's not a laugh in this!"" "Then I've seen them perform it and... (MATT) We do the opposite!" "We take a very funny script and eke out all the laughter!" "(DAVID) I think that's almost a strength." "It should be about the way you do something." "Otherwise, you're probably just..." "You're just a voice for some jokes." "To have real style..." "I mean, there's a sketch we do in "Little Britain"" "where it's Sebastian and the Prime Minister and you say something as the Chancellor." "And I just go, "Yeah!" Like that." "Again, this isn't funny on the page, but people laugh because of the way you say it." "If you get a laugh with, "Yeah!", it's good!" "(MATT) And Lou and Andy really came alive when we handed in the script." ""Are you sure you want this?" "No." "I want it." It was just that on the page." "There was a bit of uncertainty." "Then we read it out and it became this whole other thing." "(BRIAN) Why is Dennis Waterman a little person?" "(DAVID) We have absolutely no idea." "We did him on the radio." "It seemed right. " I want to write the theme tune, sing the theme tune."" "He was a little childish, with a high-pitched voice." "Then on the TV show, we thought, "Let's make him miniature and have a big set."" "But I can't explain to you the reason why." "There is no logical reason why." "(BRIAN) If you two don't know, no one does!" "(MATT) We talk about taking it from radio to TV." "Obviously, on radio, all those visual jokes, where things become bigger and smaller, we didn't even think of them, it didn't occur to us." "(DAVID) I think we thought, "This is a show with original characters."" "If we spoof somebody, we'd like to do it in an unusual way." "God knows what Dennis Waterman thinks of it." " (BRIAN) Can you stick around?" " (DAVID) A pleasure." " If you'd like to speak to my..." " (MATT) I left the tumble dryer on!" "(BRIAN) That's no problem." "0500909693 and 85058 is the text number." " We have a call." "Morris in Aberystwyth." " Good afternoon." "Hello there." "Funniest programme I've seen in a long, long while." "Those of us who have got BBC 3 are absolutely hooked on it." "Sometimes we watch it twice a night." "It's getting to that extent." "I can't wait until some of my friends watch it tomorrow." " It's tonight!" " Tonight, sorry." "Yeah." "I live in a village adjacent to Llandewi Breffi." "(DAVID) I was going to ask!" "No, but it's high time people took the mickey out of that village." "(BRIAN) You have to remind me, which character is in there?" "The only gay in the village?" "(MATT) Yes, we have this character, Dafydd Thomas, who prides himself on being, certainly to his knowledge, the only gay in his village." "This was inspired by somebody that we knew who also prided himself on being the only gay in his social group, but he was quite lonely about it." "If you said, "I think I might be gay," he said, "No, you're not."" "In a way, it made him less special." " (DAVID) So have you been there?" " Oh, gosh, yeah." "(DAVID) And is there one gay man there or?" "I haven't been there that oftenl There are quite a few stories about it." "(DAVID) The budget didn't allow us to go to Wales in the first series." "We're really hoping in the new series to actually go there." "(BRIAN) The budget wouldn't stretch to Wales?" "(DAVID) No, we get, " Does this character have to be driving a car?" "Isn't it funnier on a bike?"" ""No!" "I think..." "Wouldn't it be funnier if this character wasn't wearing any trousers?"" ""No, we need trousers." That's another L20." "(BRIAN) So what is it, Morris, that tickles you?" " About?" " About the show, yeah." "(LAUGHTER)" "The characters." "You can strongly relate to them, not necessarily Dafydd, but the other characters are so, so strong." "You've both got the accents spot-on." "(DAVID) That's the first time anyone's said that!" "Thank you." " (BRIAN) That is a strength, isn't it?" " (MATT) I do Welsh, people think it's Asian." "You've got a classic Welsh accent." "(DAVID) It's bad when someone says, "An accent?" "From whereabouts in Wales?"" " "Oh, just general Welsh." - (MATT) From Wales, in Wales." "(BRIAN) Thank you for that call." "I guess that is the key to all great comedy, particularly on telly in recent years, is that there is something of all the characters in all of us." " (DAVID) The ones people really relate to..." " We've all done things David Brent does." "(DAVID) Yes, those are the ones." "I don't know how many characters we play each." "(MATT) There's over 60 characters in the show." "(DAVID) The ones that people really relate to are the ones they have met in their own lives in some kind of form." "I think Vicky Pollard is everywhere around us." "People have met someone like Dafydd in their group." "So I think it's a real lesson." "(BRIAN) Andy says, "What was Molly Sugden's reaction to being asked on the show?"" "(DAVID) Yeah, she is in the series and she was very amenable." "Absolutely delightful to work with." "I don't want to give it away, but something unpleasant happens and she didn't mind that." "I remember we were in the BBC and her name was up outside the dressing room." "You know, the names are outside the doors." ""Molly Sugden" " Little Britain"." "I was so proud." "(BRIAN) You have to explain this, this gag." "(DAVID) There's a gag going through it that we're a couple and I play the wife." "We're both maybe in our sixties and I go on and on about being Molly Sugden's bridesmaid." "Then the real Molly Sugden turns up." "And maybe it wasn't as she said it was." "(BRIAN) That's given it some context." "Who are you fans of?" " (DAVID) You." " Me apart." "(MATT) I like Brian Alexander." "I think he's got it going on!" "I like..." "I think..." "I mean, I like some of the comedy we grew up watching, like "The Two Ronnies" and things like that, but there is a temptation to talk about 30 years ago." "(DAVID) And not give proper praise to people now." " (BRIAN) "The Goons"?" " (MATT) I'm not that familiar with "The Goons"." "(DAVID) I need someone to introduce me." "I don't know where to start." "(BRIAN) I have a few tatty old tapes." "Python? "Monty Python"?" "(DAVID) Oh, "Monty Python", amazing." "That really excited me when I was young." "(MATT) Kenneth Williams, Hancock." "(DAVID) I worked with Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon." "Are there better comedy actors in the country?" "And Matt's worked with Vic and Bob." "I think we're quite lucky." "(MATT) And Caroline Aherne, Peter Kay, "The Office"." "There is some great stuff around." "(BRIAN) Is there a website for comedians where you can have your own chat room?" " (DAVID) There is a website called "notbbc"." " (MATT) Dot co dot uk." "(DAVID) It's a bit mysterious." "I've heard rumours that Lee and Herring are involved." "There's definitely a very "in" discussion on that." "(MATT) There is davidwalliams. com which isn't an official website, but was set up by fans who lust after David." "There's about 70 of them." " (DAVID) I've seen you on it, Brian!" " I'm on it all night!" "We've had a text saying - and I think this is the key to a lot of British humour, whether it works or not " ""Could there be a" Little America"?"" "(DAVID) I hope so!" "It would be an interesting one, how the show plays abroad." "(BRIAN) I'm not sure they'd get it." "(DAVID) It will play to a lot of ideas, I think, that maybe other cultures have about Britain, do you know what I mean?" "It is, in some ways, British stereotypes." "I gave the tape to a girl in Sweden..." "Giving a bit too much away about my private life!" " She was actually Russian and she liked it." " So she got it?" "She got it, but she said, " I couldn't understand when the guy was, 'no, but yeah, but... '" ""I couldn't understand what she was saying!" I said, "No one in England can, either!"" "It's like, "Am I missing something?"" "(MATT) I had a call from Steve Spielberg the other day." "He's keen." "He's fine, fine." "Says hi." "So I think it will go down well there." "(DAVID) We'd love it to be on in America." "(BRIAN) There's a road called Little Britain." " Is that where you got the name?" " (MATT) No." "(DAVID) Did you know that "El Dorado", the original name for that was "Little England"?" " It was the idea of a little culture." " (BRIAN) And that was a huge success (!" ")" "(DAVID) We're following in its footsteps!" "(MATT) We like the idea of the country being smaller than it actually is, a small place." "(DAVID) We've got this great thing with David Arnold, a very successful film composer, who's done Bond films, and he composed this great score for us." "It's got that kind of idea of a little country trying to make too much of itself." "(BRIAN) Usually the PR handouts attached to these things are complete rubbish, but this one says, " Little Britain looks at the breathtaking debris of modern life."" " That's about right." " (DAVID) It sounds like what Tom would say!" " (BRIAN) But that does sum it up." " (JO) I've got several e-mails here." ""Little Britain, tears and wet pants." "Top job." Aaron in Chelmsford." ""Was George Dawes invented for "Shooting Stars" or did he already exist?"" "(MATT) No, George Dawes was created for "Shooting Stars"." "Vic and Bob, who I'd worked with on "The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer", asked me to come and be the scorekeeper on their quiz show." ""We're calling you George Dawes and we'd like you to be a baby, wearing a nappy."" "I said, " No way!" "I shall wear a blue romper suit." It came in pink - a compromise." "They were very kind and let me do whatever I wanted." "I loved working with them." "David's worked with them as well." "They're very generous to work with, very liberating." "You can go off the script." "I've just done a sitcom with them called "Catterick"" "in which I play a horrible hotel manager." " In Catterick?" " Yeah." "I still enjoy working with them." "Dave's worked with them as well." "They came up with the idea of the name, but then they let me do what I wanted and I made it up as I went along." "(JO) Mick says, "V disturbed by bloke who fancies mate's gran."" "(DAVID) So was my mother." "This is a sketch where I fall in love with Matt's grandma." "My mum said to the producer, " David was always so good with his grandmas." "Now I'm worried."" "(LAUGHTER)" "(JO) This is from John. "I want to say" Rock Profile" was the funniest programme I've seen." " "Absolutely loved the Bee Gees one." - (BRIAN) I liked the George Michael one." "(JO) John says, "Would love to know how to start in comedy."" " (MATT) So would we!" " (DAVID) We started at the Edinburgh Festival." " We were in the Assembly Rooms at midnight." " (BRIAN) Brave." "Well, playing in front of 100 people." "The only way to the toilet - it was midnight and everyone was completely drunk - was walking across the stage." "I think we learned so much in Edinburgh because you get so resilient." "You have to work so hard to get an audience who are totally drunk out of their mind and want to go to the toilet every three minutes." "If you can hold those... (MATT) Also, if you want to make it in comedy, become very depressed." "That might help you." "(DAVID) The other thing I'd say is, being serious - because I think we should be - is that we did two series on Radio 4, which I think is quite a smart move." "Get on radio." "(MATT) "Alan Partridge" started on radio, "League of Gentlemen", "On The Hour", so Radio 4 was a great breeding ground." "(DAVID) They would never have trusted us to make this series if we hadn't tried it out." "(BRIAN) Once again, rather like Vic and Bob, Eric and Ernie, there's a shorter guy and a tall, thinner guy." "(MATT) A fat one and a thin one, a straight one, a gay one, a bald one, a hairy one, and I know which one I am!" "Yes, thank you (!" ")" " (BRIAN) Any more there?" " A Jewish one and a Christian one!"