Tim Key

If you're on stage and it's going terribly and then you tell them and they're like, yeah, I thought it was.

You've got to keep that secret.

I don't know.

There's something about it when you're like...

Yeah, so Steve Coogan comes and watches my shows.

He's incredibly supportive.

And he watched one before we knew one another.

And that was kind of one of the maddest moments in my life because, like, obviously he's a huge hero.

And I don't think I spoke to him afterwards.

That was like sort of in another lifetime, really.

But then since I've known him, yeah, it means a lot, you know.

You don't really...

It shouldn't matter whether there's a critic or, you know, your best friend or a famous person.

But there is something where you... There's something does change where you're like, oh, okay, so we've got Steve Coogan watching.

You really want it to go incredibly well because you really want him to say... I don't know.

It's kind of mad, but you want Steve Coogan to say, oh, I really enjoyed that.

Yeah.

Well, definitely, obviously these days, I would know he's coming because I've sorted his ticket.

And, you know, I sort of remember bits where you're...

Like a horrible thing where you wake up in the morning and you have this sort of grace period of about three seconds where you just wake up and then you just go, oh, God.