David O'Doherty

What I find fascinating is that in the same way for a lot of people, I live in Dublin and sort of Roddy Doyle wrote the Dublin that is still in a lot of people's minds, whereby everyone's auditioning to be in a band.

Everyone's dad runs a chip fan that goes around football matches.

You know what I mean?

Somehow that tapped into something.

Same with Curtis.

When I go to London, even though I spend a lot of time there, we were talking about this on the podcast recently, Max.

If I'm in a tube station, I still half expect to see Hugh Grant sort of bumbling his way through trying to give broken flowers to some beautiful American or whatever.

He is my London.

And Curtis was the originally directed all of adolescence.

But then they binned that and went for the single camera thing.

Ben, sometimes when you catch up with someone once a year, I mean, I would have a lot of my comedy friends say people I'd know from Edinburgh.

I would see them.

But there is some pressure on the hangout then if you only see them once a year.

Do you just pick up where things fell off or is it someone you've spent so much time with in the past?

You just fall into it.

he must have to live with this he must have to live with this but ben you also need to know that just before we started talking to you we did imagine that if the cable for your computer couldn't meet the plug socket in the wall you would simply go outside and push the whole wall closer to the uh computer socket is that a reference the young ones

I would have to get the Greggs.

I would have to not just put it in the bin, but put ashes on top of it.

Were I to try not to, you know, I would have to pulverize it into dust.

I don't know what they put in it.