Jimmy Carr

But it's fun having a film out.

Is it for Netflix?

No, no, no.

It's a cinema release.

It's like a proper actual go to the movies, be social, get out of your houses, which is a good message anyway, I think.

You wrote it with your brother?

I wrote it with my younger brother, Patrick, and the Dawson brothers.

And it was quite different to normally when you write films.

It's about you kind of write it and then you have to take jokes away.

And this was just we put more jokes in because it's the pitch for the movie.

The elevator pitch is it's Downton Abbey meets Airplane.

So it's like a period drama, but we're giving it kind of the Mel Brooks treatment and trying to make it as funny as possible.

It's classic, boy meets girl, boy marries cousin.

It's a bit of a spoiler.

I mean, it can definitely miss, but it feels like if you're doing movie maths, you go, well, what do the British do well?

What do the Americans like that we do well?

They like the period drama.

We do that very nicely.

And I think we do comedy very well.

I think we do comedy kind of uniquely well.