Edgar Wright

Yeah.

The only reason it came up as a trilogy is when we did Shaun of the Dead, which mentions Cornetto once, we got free ice cream at the premiere, and I said to Simon when we were writing Hot Fuzz, hey, we should write Cornettos into the second one so we can get free ice cream again.

That's great.

He says we met at the Battersea Art Centre.

And I know the truth is we met at the Riverside Studios.

We met, he was friends with, there was in the, like around that time when I first moved to London, like, you know, 30 years ago.

And there were a lot of people on the scene who have all now become huge, like the Mighty Boosh guys.

And, you know, Simon and Matt Lukes and David Walliams and the League of Gentlemen guys.

They were all sort of coming up around the same time.

And I met Simon backstage at a comedy gig.

And I'd seen him doing stand-up on TV.

And he's from the same area as me.

We're only like...

we grew up like 50 miles away from each other.

So we're both from the West Country.

And I'd seen him on TV doing a stand-up set about regional TV.

So I went up to him and said, hey, I'm from the West Country too.

So I think he remembered me as who's that weird kid who came up, who's that weird kid with the beard.

And then you guys, and then what happened?

Oh, the lights are turning off in my room.