Hannah Fry

You have to.

It's the only way you survive.

It's such intimacy and love that, you know, me having a former eating disorder is often like a massive punchline when we're talking about what I'm cooking or what we're going to eat.

It's the only way that you can deal with the pain of it.

And it's the only way that you can, well, you know, my friend who's got a dead dad.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

We'll do his joke about her.

Yeah, yeah.

She's got a dead dad.

And it's like hard one.

that kind of... And it's, yes, about survival, it's about processing, and it's about levity, and it's about love.

So I think there's a world in which they've created these characters, understood and empathised with all these traumas, and then, like, have these characters become their friends that they've known for many years, and then they become our friends who we've known for years.

So we do feel like we can laugh about these...

the mum who killed herself, the dad who left the family to go be in a drag act in Vegas, Monica and having been a formerly overweight person.

But I also do think that there are these punchlines in comedy

that have only changed like very, very recently of what the funniest thing in the world is.

What was the funniest thing in the world when we were growing up?

A man in a dress, an overweight person, someone with a foreign accent.

Those were just the things that we were told.

Were things that were really funny.