see I was gonna do a very serious not
serious buy one so I'm gonna talk about
writing the shower we can do all of that
if you want what's behind have you done
many interviews talking about the show
yet we haven't done many interviews
really right okay no and also people
never ask about those things while I'm
going to them
okay when you sit down and write the
show oh it's like Mark Lawson already go
on do you know obviously when you're
writing for for the last the Little
Britain or whatever you you know you had
your character wait can you not pick
your nose when I'm doing I'm just I'm
just scratching it no you were picking
it on the radio a with it we on the
webcam oh I'm sorry sorry
camera three and then we'll pick it up
your face if you flick your you know BBC
two or something yeah or news noises so
obviously you're writing forget
well-established characters but with the
news show you have to establish the
character very quickly that's right yeah
did you find that a challenge I thought
it was a really nice thing I mean just
in general all right Little Britain
became so much bigger than we ever ever
ever would have dared to dream so
there's no point trying to compete with
that so the best thing to do is just
start over and not pressurize yourself
to make a show as big or as successful
as that and and and I and we thought
well we can't we can't be as big as that
but we could be funnier than that so
that was just we've just as usual we
just write what makes us laugh but it's
a bit cleaner than Little Britain hmm
it's a little bit a little bit more
family it's fun creating new cars as you
think you know you don't exactly know
how they're gonna sound how they're
gonna look how they're gonna walk you
know and it was it was quite a pressure
I think creating so many new characters
all at once but I think they're quite
vivid you write together don't you
mm-hmm so do you ever have a scenario
where David arrives on Matt so you'd
turn up and you go I've had a brilliant
idea
so right we have an idea of this
character and and we making this and
that and there's that the other and
that'd be really funny and the other one
goes yeah
you do sometimes you don't share the
same vision but then the idea is
hopefully you then offer something to
build on that right you don't just go oh
no that's rubbish you go okay well okay
that's interesting well how can we pull
that - all you do discard lots of things
that you don't end up using you know we
do create lots of characters that we
don't use at all well that's fine
because if you write lots and lots and
lots and lots then you can afford to
discard some so it's not normally tense
if one of you says I really like this
idea and the other one doesn't really
get it you just can't be too rude about
someone else's idea are you in these
rubbish be just trying to build on what
might be good about it
I think I'm not saying the word
interesting I might use that if we have
no next brainstorming session rest here
hello I've got an idea
interesting Alice but his mind now
normally you look at me go what no no I
don't I'm very I'm very I'm much of a
team player you've got to say something
like again in sort of Apprentice speak
you go I'm gonna run with that but I'm
gonna run with that a bit later on we'll
come back to that it's all just all of
that kind of pussyfooting around
basically